I'm after a book that is the "must have" book on developing composite server
controls.
One person recommended the following book:
       Developing ASP.NET Server Controls and Components (Paperback)

I am trying to get pageA.aspx gridView to pass a key (say deptID) to
pageB.aspx which will use the value passed as a filter in it's own griView
query.
On pageA gridView I have a hyperlinkField with navigateURL property =

I created my first custom control.
I don't get any error when I use it but it doesn't show anything.
Could someone tell me if I am doing something wrong in my custom
control?

I assume there's a way to do this since I've seen third-party
components act the same way.
How do I force the compiler to throw an error or warning message during
compile or build?  For instance, if a certain property of my custom

Anybody know how to fix this?
Found some stuff on google about this. Says to enable jitDebugging="true" in
web config. Not sure if that will work
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I'm more or less desperate here, I've posted this in a few forums now
over the months and got absolutely no response. It would be very much
appreciate that you could help in any way here... So take pity :)
I have a control derived from a drop down list written in VB.NET

I wish to load some user controls on a web page dynamically.
I could use the LoadControl method, but there is a catch - the user
control needs to be dynamically built and then loaded at runtime. The
controls will not part of the initial project so they won't be

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help :)
I have a custom control that includesa  ListItemCollection property that
allows clients using it to dynamically add/remove/etc items just as you would
a normal ListBox.

Is there a way to set/change the ErrorMessage and/or Text property of
validationcontrols without making a trip to the server?  What I have so
far is a usercontrol that inherits from BaseValidator and overrides the
Pre_Render event in which I have javascript code to do validation.  I