Subclassing and Overriding ASP.NET Pages—Part II


	Subclassing and Overriding ASP.NET Pages—Part II

travislaborde

6-11-2007 3:29 PM

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programming, asp.net, 2005

travislaborde says:

A very interesting article by Dino Esposito.

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   &lt;tagMapping&gt;
     &lt;add tagType=”System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox”
          mappedTagType=”Dino.Samples.TextBox” /&gt;
   &lt;/tagMapping&gt;
&lt;/pages&gt;
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