Summary
I was fortunate enough to have several discussions with Susan Warren and Rob Howard at Microsoft during many visits to the Redmond campus while working on another book. (Rob is a Wrox author and Microsoft Program Manager, and Susan is responsible for making the IBuySpy portal code available to all developers.) Early during these discussions Susan stated that composite user controls are the way to go. When you consider that a user control is as easy to design as a page and very easy to reuse, her statement makes a lot of sense.
Since those early discussions and after many hours of writing code for production and examples, I couldn't agree with her more. I have combined user controls with data grids and data lists with phenomenal success ...
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