Programming ASP.NET 3.5, 4th Edition

Chapter 5. More Controls

In the preceding chapter, we covered many of the standard ASP.NET controls and the AJAX extenders that you can use to enhance their functionality beyond the remit of the traditional HTML controls to which they correspond. In this chapter, we’ll look at two more groups of controls:

Panel controls

Those ASP.NET server controls and AJAX controls which can enclose a number of other controls and allow you to control the presentation and contents of the child controls in one

More standard controls from the toolbox

Those ASP.NET server controls that offer a richer level of functionality than those you saw in Chapter 4, such as the MultiView, Wizard, and Calendar controls

What this chapter does not offer is coverage of all the other controls in the Visual Studio toolbox, of which there are several dozen. Many which have a specific functionality, such as validation, data access, personalization, or navigation, are covered in individual chapters later in the book.