Server Controls

Introduction

When developing a Web application based on one of the ASP.NET Web Forms application templates, you will have a plethora of Server Controls at your disposal which help you expedite the server-side development of your application and reduce the complexities of implementation in that all Server control properties can be easily located and modified using the Visual Studio Properties window.

Standard Controls

The topics in this section describe how to work with ASP.NET Web server controls that appear on the Standard tab of the Visual Studio Toolbox window. These include controls that enable you to display buttons, lists, images, boxes, hyperlinks, labels, tables, as well as more complicated controls that work with static and dynamic data or controls that act as containers for other controls.

Note: This menu is only available when you have an .ASPX page open in the Visual Studio Document window.

AdRotator Control

LinkButton and ImageButton Controls

Image and ImageMap Controls

Calendar Control

FileUpload Control

Literal, Localize, and Substitute Controls

AdRotator Control

HiddenField Control

XML Control

Table Control

HTML Controls

In Visual Studio, open the File menu, move your mouse cursor down to the Open option and then choose Web Site from the fly-out menu that appears as shown in figure 1. Notice that the keyboard shortcut for this task is Shift+Alt+O (that's the letter O not a number 0).

 

Data Controls

When an intellisense context menu pops up with its list of options you'll notice that many of the options have icons identifying the option type. Keeping track what icons represent what can be confusing. Here is a good table for reference.

Validation Controls

Navigation Controls

The Menu control

Login Controls

Ajax Extensions

WebParts