Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Inside Out

Chapter 18. Advanced Design Techniques

• Delegate Controls

• Advanced Web Parts Development Topics

• In Summary...

This chapter details a number of techniques that are useful when designing Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) sites. These techniques require you to have administrative privileges to install, enable, or deploy the solutions.

Delegate Controls

Delegate controls is a new WSS 3.0 feature that enables you to declare candidate controls for functionality and provides a mechanism for choosing a single functionality provider. The candidate controls are identified using Features.

Let’s look at an example taken from the WSS 3.0 master page:

<SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ControlId="SmallSearchInputBox"/>

This is where the search ...