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Summary
In this chapter, we spent a fair bit of time looking at different types of controls and how they work. We've started putting together a small Web site using these controls, and we'll be building on this Web site in the next few chapters. Let's take a look at what we've achieved in this chapter.
We looked at what a Web control is, and we discussed the relative merits of both Web controls and HTML controls (HTML tags with a runat="server" attribute).
We saw how a page is rendered and looked at when (and how) events are handled.
We looked at some simple intrinsic controls, particularly the Hyperlink control, which we used to add some links to the Wrox United application. We returned to this control twice to add links to the Players and Teams pages.
We used a DataList control and a Repeater control to display information about teams, and we covered Event Bubbling and saw how to handle events raised by controls that live within other controls.
We used the Calendar control to display date information on our pages and learned about two of the events it raises that we can handle, thus providing a customized appearance and behavior.
We looked at validation controls, particularly the RegularExpressionValidator control. We'll be learning more about these controls in the following chapters.
We've covered a lot of information, but given that ASP.NET is designed to work around controls and events, it's understandable that there's still a lot to discuss! The in-built-in controls provide us with a lot of rich functionality that we can use in our sites to display data, arrange information, and make the site user friendly.In the next chapter, we'll look at different methods of storing information outside the scope of a page (including that hashtable of dates from the Calendar control that we saw earlier). We'll also look at adding other validation controls, as well as extending the Default.aspx page to actually store an email address when the Register button is clicked.
