.NET Web Custom Controls: Handling Design Time Preview

Web Custom Controls are a powerful tool you should consider using for any complex and maintainable web application user interface you may need to develop. Nevertheless, Visual Studio .NET does not include a visual editor for their creation, and debugging can be annoying as you cannot make the web page visible until it renders all its content. In this article, Pablo de Grande provides an introduction to Web Custom Controls. He will show how to build a generic ControlDesigner that will be used to seize a design-time-view of web custom controls in a reusable manner.