ASP.NET controls often allow you to apply custom templates to the controls to customise the output. A great example is the Datagrid or the Gridview where you can template almost every aspect of the control. So naturally, developing your own user control, this functionality would come in handy.

However, the documentation is pretty sparse on this technique and it was a great suprise to come across an article by Robert Seder which explains it all. I just wrote a user control that adds a document management UI to our accounting engine and templating the control now becomes a breeze. Its a good read.

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