ABOUT THE SPEAKER Markus Egger is the president and chief software architect of EPS Software Corp., a custom software development and consulting firm located in Houston, Texas. He specializes in consulting for object-oriented development, Internet development, B2B, and Web services. SESSION DESCRIPTION One of the key concepts in ASP is the way Web controls are provided as plain .NET classes. Not much has been said or written about how to use (and extend) this model most efficiently. This session will explain all of that. ASP.NET introduces advanced object-oriented features into the world of Web Development. All ASP pages are based on Web Controls. The initial set of Web Controls is provided by Microsoft as part of the ASP.NET package. However, ASP.NET allows for relatively easy and straightforward extension of the Web Controls model. This session teaches how to build and use Web Controls using Visual Basic.NET and C# code.