Chapter 9. Building User Controls and Server Controls
IN THIS CHAPTER
Many server-scripting environments, including ASP.old, made it difficult to reuse the code that composes Web-based user interfaces. The most common option for creating reusable code is the server-side include (SSI). With SSIs, you create an external file containing HTML and/or server script that can be referenced, or included, from any other file in your Web application.
SSIs are adequate and are supported on many types of server environments (including both ASP.old and ASP.NET) across different platforms. But the server-side include is a harsh mistress, quick to anger. One problem is that the SSI ...
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