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ASP.NET

Developing Custom ASP.NET Server Controls

This section describes how to develop ASP.NET server controls. It contains a walkthrough that provides an overview of authoring a custom server control and it provides code examples that illustrate different control authoring tasks such as rendering, defining properties, managing state, and creating composite controls.

In This Section

Walkthrough: Developing and Using a Custom Server Control

How to: Use Custom ASP.NET Server Controls in Visual Studio

Web Control Rendering Example

Control State vs. View State Example

Server Control Simple Properties and Subproperties

Server Control Custom State Management

Server Control Collection Properties

Composite Web Control Example

Typed Styles for Child Controls Example

Templated Server Control Example

Metadata Attributes for Custom Server Controls

Building the Custom Server Control Examples

Developing Custom Data-Bound Web Server Controls for ASP.NET 1.1

Developing Custom Data-Bound Web Server Controls for ASP.NET 2.0

Securing Custom Server Controls

Related Sections

ASP.NET Control Designers Overview: Provides information about implementing custom designer classes for your controls.