Part V. Advanced User Interface
As you already know, one of ASP.NET's greatest strengths is its extensible architecture. Throughout this book, you've learned how to customize the way ASP.NET processes requests, reads configuration files, and uses countless provider-based features from membership to profiles. Custom controls are one more avenue of advancement—they allow you to build your own well-encapsulated graphical widgets that you can drop into any page in any web application. Sometimes, the goal of a first-rate custom control is to provide a nice wrapper around a fancy piece of HTML markup. More often, custom controls are used to standardize a piece of page functionality and formalize the way it interacts with the page code so that you can ...
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