ABOUT THE SPEAKER Yakov Fain works as a Java architect for a major bank in New York City. He is a member of the editorial board of JDJ. Yakov has 23 years of experience working in software development. 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.