Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to use List controls to display simple option lists. You learned how to work with the DropDownList, RadioButtonList, ListBox, CheckBoxList, and BulletedList controls.

You also saw the common features of the List controls. You learned how to append data items to a List control and automatically post a form containing a List control back to the server.

Finally, you worked through the creation of a custom List control, which involved deriving a new control from the base ListControl class. The custom List control takes advantage of client-side JavaScript to enable users to select multiple list items without requiring a page to be posted back to the server when each item is selected.