Chapter 5. Understanding User Controls

It’s better than your average Include!

“You know, in the olden days we used to program pages for the web in classics like Notepad and SimpleText. We didn’t have any of these new fangled editors with any of that code highlighting and stuff like that. And we were happy with our simple include files. So they were hard to use—but that’s back when we understood the value of a dollar and a hard day’s work. These kids today don’t value nothing!! And they had to improve on our beloved include files. Huh, improved on my corns and bunions, that’s what they shoulda done. Or figured out how to make my dentures stay in better. There was absolutely nothing wrong with include files. We used em, and these young whipper ...

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