Custom Server Controls

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to use a variety of techniques to create custom controls. In the next chapter, you’ll continue your exploration by learning how to take control of the design-time representation of a control. In Chapter 29 and Chapter 30, you’ll see examples of custom controls that use JavaScript and GDI+ for advanced solutions.

Even after you’ve read all these chapters, you still will not have learned everything there is to know about ASP.NET custom control creation. If you want to continue your exploration into the tricks, techniques, and idiosyncrasies of custom control programming, you might be interested in a dedicated book about the topic. A good resource is Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components (Microsoft Press, 2002).