Developing Custom ASP.NET Server Controls

This section describes how to develop ASP.NET server controls. It contains a walkthrough that provides an overview of authoring a custom server control. It also provides code examples that illustrate control authoring tasks such as rendering, defining properties, managing state, and creating composite controls.

In This Section

• Walkthrough: Developing and Using a Custom Web Server Control

• How to: Use Custom ASP.NET Server Controls in Visual Studio

• Web Control Rendering Example

• Control State vs. View State Example

• Server Control Simple Properties and Subproperties

• Server Control Custom State Management

• Server Control Collection Properties

• Composite Web Control Example

• Typed Styles for Child Controls Example

• Templated Server Control Example

• Metadata Attributes for Custom Server Controls

• Building the Custom Server Control Examples

• Developing Custom Data-Bound Web Server Controls for ASP.NET 1.1

• Developing Custom Data-Bound Web Server Controls for ASP.NET 2.0

• Securing Custom Server Controls

Related Sections

• ASP.NET Control Designers Overview
  Provides information about how to implement custom designer classes for ASP.NET server controls.

• Adding AJAX Functionality to ASP.NET Controls
  A listing of topics that shows you how to add AJAX functionality to ASP.NET server controls.