Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Server Controls

Server controls are typically user interface objects that users can take advantage of when running a Web application on clients. You can notice that in most cases ASP.NET server controls are counterparts of HTML controls, but provide a fully object-oriented development environment and full support for managed code. Table 37.1 summarizes the most common server controls.

Table 37.1 Most Common Server Controls

All controls in Table 37.1 are then rendered as their HTML equivalent so that they can be consumed by Web browsers.

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