Chapter 19. Creating New ASP.NET Controls
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If none of the existing Web server controls meet your requirements, you can create your own control by deriving from one of the control base classes—Control and WebControl. Even in this case, though, you don't have to build your control completely from scratch. The Control and WebControl classes provide all the basic functionality of a Web server control and let you focus mostly on the specific features you need to implement.
In its simplest form, a Web server control is a software component that abstracts a piece of HTML markup and exposes it through an object model. You can write controls using any ...
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