Chapter 3. Controls

Terms you'll need to understand:

• Cascading Style Sheets

• Client-side event handling

• HTML controls

• HTML server controls

• Server-side event handling

• Validation controls

• Web server controls

Techniques you'll need to master:

• Knowing how to use the common HTML and Web forms controls available in the Visual Studio .NET toolbox

• Understanding how to handle events for Web forms controls and getting comfortable with client-side and server-side event handling techniques

• Understanding how to create controls dynamically

• Working thoroughly with validation Web server controls and answering questions that ask you to choose the most appropriate validation control for a given scenario

• Knowing how to create and apply Cascading Style Sheets for consistent formatting of Web pages

Controls are the building blocks of a GUI. In this chapter, you'll work with HTML controls, HTML server controls, Web server controls, and validation controls to create the user interface for a Web application. You will also learn about user controls, composite controls, and custom controls, which enable you to extend the existing controls to achieve custom functionality.