VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Creating and Managing Components Section 1 - In this tutorial you will learn about Components, Best practices in using Components, Creating Components by extending the UserControl Class, Testing the Control, Creating and implementing Events, Extending a control through Visual Inheritance and Inheriting from a UserControl.
The ASP.NET 2.0 data source model provides support for a declarative model of data binding. The data source components return and accept data from familiar streams such as SQL, XML, DataSet and from custom formats too. The schema is very approachable, time saving and simplifies the binding mechanism.
The tutorial you are reading now is intended to address this particular problem. This type of user interface construction technique is typically referred to as 'Dynamic Control Creation'. The technique is not that new in desktop applications and is already employed in several development framework many years ago. What we are going to present you in this tutorial is the web based implementation of this technique
Cause I think we have all been on various VS2005 presentations where the presenter has dragged some CreateUserWizard, LostPassword control etc onto the form and with no code at all created a rolebased access system for a site. I have been on such demos for the last 10 years, and never gets that impressed anymore. I know that in reality it's never that easy, something needs to be tweaked for it to fit the requirements of your customer - and tweaking a framework model (compiled classes) is seldom easy, compared to changing pure code.
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