Writing Windows SharePoint Services Server-Side controls

Writing Windows SharePoint Services Server-Side controls
Overview

This post tries to describe the process of writing a .NET server-side control for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
There are a number of ways to write add-in code for SharePoint Technologies, the most notable being web parts.
However, these do not always help in the customisation of a site. Sometimes, we need to be able to change the
SharePoint look'n'feel and web parts do not integrate seamlessly in an area we want to control.. If we consider that
SharePoint is an ASP.NET application, we are able to use other .NET techniques to deliver the look and customisation we want.

One of those methods is via compiled controls. Most commonly used would be user controls but we can also write

server controlsn Mini-Navigator
In this post, I will be describing how I wrote a server control that I call a Mini-Navigator. See below: ...

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