The Application Development Experiences of an Enterprise Engineer

Creating Custom Controls for ASP.NET 2.0

Posted by bsstahl on 2006-05-08 and Filed Under: event development 


A number of new facts came out of the final talk I attended on the day, Mickey Williams' discussion of ASP.NET 2.0 custom controls. These key facts for me were:

  • Embedded resources can be used in 2.0 controls (i.e. graphics)
  • ControlState can be used for critical data rather than ViewState. ControlState can't be turned off (be sure to use this for good and not for evil)
  • SmartTags can be easily created to expose the most common elements of a control to the page developer for easy modification and configuration
  • Controls can now inherit from CompositeControl or CompositeDataBoundControl
  • Mickey highly reccomends Reflector as a class browser, explorer, analyzer and documentation viewer for .NET

I'm sure the slide-decks and samples will be posted soon.

Tags: controls aspdotnet 

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