Creating Dropdown list control from Datasource - ASP.NET tutorial

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System.Web.UI.Page manages a list of server-side controls, and it's the job of each server-side control to render a particular portion of the page. ASP.NET broadly classifies server-side controls into two categories:

Rendering controls (controls that completely manage the rendering process)

Composite controls (multiple server-side controls bundled into a single unit)

This tutorial focuses on the first type: custom rendered controls. We'll see how the control works once it's part of a Web page. Along the way we'll cover topics such as how controls manage events and how they detect the differences in client browsers.

This tutorial introduces the method in which ASP.NET manages configuration information. It gives a taste of how ASP.NET configuration works. ASP.NET is a feature-rich system for developing and deploying Web sites. The features we'll see in more detail as we examine ASP.NET further include some the following:

session state;
caching content to help optimize your Web site's responses;
tracing requests;
mapping specific file extensions to custom handlers;
authenticating users;

Complete online chapter "Talking To HailStorm" from "Early Adopter HailStorm (.NET My Services)". Provides in depth information on what is .NET My Services, what it provides and how to make use of it.

This example shows you how to use the calendar component and get the date that the user have clicked on

Well by now many of you have probably heard, or at least caught wind of, the fact that the next version of ASP is not going to be ASP 4.0. It is instead going to be called ASP+, and what a difference that plus sign makes. This article describes the new ASP in a great detail. Topics include: The New ASP+ Infrastructure, Increased Performance, Greater Scalability, Quicker and Easier Development, Easier Manageability, Improved Security, Language Support, and Web Services.