Server Control Basics

Abstract

To create server controls, you need to understand how they work. This chapter provides a very high-level run-through of the various server control namespaces to set the scene for the rest of this book. To begin our journey, we’ll start by reviewing what a server control provides to clients and taking a look at some of the prebuilt controls supplied by ASP.NET. We’ll study the controls’ inheritance bloodlines for the HTML and web controls, examining how the namespaces are organized, so that you become familiar with what is available for immediate use in ASP.NET. Because inheritance and composition of existing server controls are important timesaving control-building techniques available in ASP.NET, this rapid journey through the object model is well worth the effort.