Creating User Interfaces with Web Controls

The .NET framework provides a number of user-interface components that you can use.

These components are divided into several categories:

  • HTML controls—An object-oriented way of creating standard HTML page elements such as text boxes and buttons.

  • Web forms controls—Objects that can incorporate standard and dynamic HTML into rich user-interface elements.

  • Validation controls—A type of Web form control specifically geared toward validating user input on a form, often without causing a round trip to the server. Validation controls are covered in Chapter 11, “Creating Database Applications with ADO.NET.”

This section will show you how to use the controls that are included with the .NET framework. You can also ...

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