Sean Ziencik, Senior Consultant for CIBER and Greg Akins from Allin Corporation will be our guests for this month's Pittsburgh .NET User Group meeting. 

Greg will begin the meeting with a .NET 101 session that looks at a .NET Server Control

Sean will follow with a presentation that addresses ways to add transportable and reusable functionality to ASP.Net sites using custom server controls

Topics Covered
1.    Server control architecture.
2.    Server controls v. user controls.
3.    Rendering methods(HtmlWriter v Control Compositing)
4.    Event Handling with server controls.
5.    Persisting state.
6.    Extending Microsoft’s default controls through inheritance.
7.    Control Builders – how a control is read by the page parser.
8.    Design-Time attributes for controls and their properties.
9.    Tips, Tricks and Gotchas.