ASP.Net Server Controls – An Overview

What is Server Controls?

                 In ASP.Net there 2 types of Controls available. One is Client Control and another one is Server side controls. Client Controls are basic HTML controls like button, text boxes, check box etc. which can be easily constructed by HTML elements. 

In other hand, server side controls are created by Microsoft as part of ASP.Net, which provide a rich set of functionalities such as event handling, rich set of properties which can be easily programmed in server side.

In other words Server side controls are just web controls used in ASP.Net pages. Actually Microsoft wants to reduce the development time because of this sort of controls. Without the Server controls it’s hard to found any ASP.Net pages.

Most of the ASP.Net developers using the following server controls:

1.       Button
2.       TextBox
3.       DropdownList
4.       Datagrid
5.       Label
6.       RadioButton
7.       Checkbox
8.       RadioButtonList
9.       CheckboxList
10.   Linkbutton

ASP.Net Server controls actually starts with the prefix “asp”. Each Controls must have the below mandatory properties. They are:

ID - Denotes the unique ID, to access it.
runat - Denotes this control run in server side. The value must be "server".

Happy Programming!!!