Developing Custom ASP.NET Server Controls

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010/.NET Framework 4

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.NET Framework 4 - 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. It also provides code examples that illustrate control authoring tasks such as rendering, defining properties, managing state, and creating composite controls.

In This Section

Walkthrough: Developing and Using a Custom Web 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
Securing Custom Server Controls

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