Creating the Presentation with User Controls

Most likely the best piece of advice you can get is to create your ASP.NET user interfaces with user controls. Referred to as control compositing, you can design a user control precisely as you would a Web page. The only difference is that user controls can be reorganized and reused on one or many Web pages. An excellent example of this technique is the very dynamic IBuySpy portal application available for download from Microsoft at http://www.asp.net. The portal refers to its user controls as portal modules. Each module shares a common base class, and the portal can be updated after the portal application has been deployed with an administrative login.

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