ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

This chapter provided a detailed overview of custom control development in the ASP.NET framework. You learned how to create controls that have properties, methods , and events and create new controls from existing controls through control composition and inheritance. Finally, you learned how to access the Request , Response , and Trace objects through a control's Context property.

In the next chapter, you will tackle some more advanced topics in control development, and you will learn how to create controls that support templates and binding to a data source, such as a database table or XML file.