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Building a Simple Rating Control for ASP.NET 2.0 : Imar Spaanjaars

Sunday, July 27 2008

This article shows you how to build a .NET 2.0 Rating control that derives from CompositeControl. The control allows your visitors to rate content on your site, similar to how you can rate articles on the MSDN site. Many web sites take this approach. For example, Amazon (1) uses a 5 star rating approach to rate the articles they're selling. Microsoft's MSDN site uses a nine-bar graph (2) to display the quality of their (technical) articles. My own site uses a five-bar graph to let users rate an article (in the left hand column). Since there are many uses for a rating feature, it makes sense to encapsulate the rating mechanism in a custom ASP.NET Server Control. This article shows you how to build such a control...

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Building a Simple Rating Control for ASP.NET 2.0 : Imar Spaanjaars
Also See:
E-Commerce Starter Kit (ESK) : Bipin Joshi
ASP.NET Best Practices for High Performance Applications : Ali Khan
Creating Client And Server-Side Form Validation Using The Validator Toolkit For ASP.NET MVC : Juergen Baeurle
Custom Controls And Control Builders : Timothy Khouri
Extended GridView Control : Bilal Haidar

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