This chapter has been about ASP.NET Web Controls. The ASP.NET controls are placed in Web pages. Thus, we cannot isolate them and discuss them without knowing how the ASP.NET Engine works, and how it maintains the states of the server controls. Hence, we presented brief overviews of various concepts like HTML Forms, server-side processing, and in-page coding vs. code-behind. We have also given a step-wise procedure to develop a simple ASP.NET project using VS.NET.

We have essentially covered almost all of the HTML server and Web server controls in this chapter. We have also introduced you to a very promising technology named Custom User Control. We have not presented two special purpose controls, namely the Calendar and the AdRotator controls in this chapter. Detail examples of these controls are available in plenty of sources (including the SDK documentations). After you practice the examples presented in this chapter, you will not have much difficulties in tackling these two controls.

The ASP.NET server controls are here to stay. They provide exceptional functionalities and abilities to develop server-side codes just like the VB 6 codes we used to develop in the old days. The bound controls make it easy for us to develop powerful data-oriented applications on the Web very fast. We have illustrated many of these controls with simple examples. However, each of these controls has many properties and events beyond the materials presented in this chapter. A complete book can be written on data-bound list controls, and still...