ASP.NET Custom Controls

BlueBay Solutions have begun to release a suite of asp.net custom controls. The first two controls are available for preview.

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What are custom controls?

One of the most powerful features of ASP.NET is its support for custom server controls and components. ASP.NET ships with dozens of built-in controls, and developers can easily extend these controls or write their own controls from scratch. Server controls can be used to encapsulate complex user interface logic or business rules, and can benefit from design-time support like drag-and-drop and toolbox support and property builders. Custom controls pick up where User Controls leave off, providing greater flexibility, reusability, and a better design time experience, but with some added complexity.

Custom controls as a rule inherit directly or indirectly from the System.Web.UI.Control base class. Controls that are visible on a page should inherit directly or indirectly from System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl, which provides properties like Style, which you can use to determine the look of the control on the page. Custom controls can be built in a number of ways. Some simply override the Render() method, thus determining the HTML output in place of the control at runtime. Others, known as composite controls, act as containers for other controls. Others inherit from existing fully functional controls to create more specific versions of these controls or to enhance their functionality.

Controls in ASP.NET can support data-binding as well as templates.