Adding Web Server Controls to the Home.aspx Page
Web server controls cannot be displayed by themselves. Therefore, they must be used in conjunction with a container. The FeaturedItems.ascx Web server control is contained within the Home.aspx page.
The featured items list is displayed prominently on the upper-right quadrant of the home page. Figure 7.1 shows what the home page looks like containing the FeaturedItems.ascx Web control.
Figure 7.1. The home page displaying the FeaturedItems control.
To display the Web control, you must first register it. You use the Register page directive to do so. The entire line of code looks like this:
<%@ Register ...
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