Linked by Will Senn on Thu 22nd Apr 2004 06:30 UTC
This article is intended to give you a practical recipe for creating a simple Web Control and extending Visual Studio with support for the control. The control itself is a basic Country Code drop down list such as you would find on many profile entry pages.
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It's amazing to see how much work is involved in creating a custom control for the web. It is a real weakness of applying a programming model to the web, when clearly a plain text/scripting combination is much better.
I've done a couple of controls this week, and I wish I could use PHP. Something I could do in a 1/2 hour in PHP turns into a 4-8 hour charade with ASP.Net/C#. To do this control in PHP is much faster and easier. Microsoft has made it way too complex.
This article is well written and will help a lot of people.