Providing the essential information the advanced corporate and professional ISV developer needs to build robust and reusable GUI components using ASP.NET, this book provides example-based instructions of control building. Written for intermediate to advanced ASP.NET developers, it provides the information missing from the MSDN platform documentation needed to build real-world ASP.NET controls. Covered are all end-to-end topics, from planning a control architecture to developing and deploying custom controls. Also included is an introduction to the core ASP.NET server objects used to court control developers from other platforms.