SmartForms Custom Controls

Developers can create and use Custom Controls to extend the functionality and look of the standard set of controls provided with SmartForms.

In this section of the developers reference we present the custom control registration tool and basic format and requirements of a Microsoft Visual Studio project for the custom controls. We then build basic custom controls, each demonstrating additional functionality that can be added through the use of a custom control.

Topic	Description
Getting Started	This topic will focus on the basic needs for creating a custom control and create your first control
Adding Custom JavaScript	This topic will demonstrate how to add your own JavaScript for the control
Adding Custom Cascading Style sheets	This will show how to add styling to a custom control
Using Style Properties with a Custom Control	This will show how to work with style properties on custom controls
Adding and Using a Custom Resource File	This will look into how to use custom resource files for custom controls
Adding a Custom Icon	This will look at how to add your own icons to the control
Adding and Using an Ajax Handler	This topic will look into adding an Ajax Handler to the custom control
Using Get and Set Values	This topic will focus on how How to pass data to and from the custom control using Get and Set values.
Adding and Using Events	This topic looks at adding event handlers for the custom control
Custom Control Sample Projects	This is a list of the projects that we have compiled , they can be downloaded
Implementing CSRF validation for Custom Controls	By default, Smartforms implements Anti-Cross Site Request Forgery (Anti-CSRF) security measures. This topic describes CSRF validation on custom controls.
Considerations and Best Practices	Quick list of best practices and things to look out for.
Troubleshooting Custom Controls	Learn about issues you could experience when working with custom controls.