ASP.NET by Example

Summary

HtmlControls and WebControls provide two different ways for developers to create and programmatically manipulate the HTML tags that form the presentation of Internet applications. Using these controls is very similar to using controls in Visual Basic, and it will be fairly easy for developer tools vendors to create drag-and-drop editors supporting these controls, as Visual Studio .NET already does. Developers can generally choose whether to use HtmlControls or WebControls as a matter of taste, although there are certain conditions that particularly favor one implementation or the other.