Developing Microsoft® ASP.NET Server Controls and Components

Chapter 12. Composite Controls

• Composite Controls—Key Concepts

• Implementing a Composite Control—The CompositeLogin Example

• APIs Related to Composite Controls

• View State and Child Controls

• Event Bubbling

• Styles in Composite Controls—The StyledCompositeLogin Example

• Templated Controls Overview

• Implementing a Templated Control—The ContactInfo Example

• Control Parsing and Control Builders

Composite controls contain other controls and reuse their functionality via class composition. A composite control delegates responsibility to its child controls while defining its own object model, which is independent of the controls it contains. Composite controls are equivalent to user controls, which we described in Chapter 4. However, user controls are deployed as text ...