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Sahil Malik


not new but handydandy

While we are on it, here a schema I made to make clear what the relations between the different components are:


edit:
just saw a nice webcast on webparts:
http://blogs.msdn.com/aniyer/
http://www.msdnevents.com/default.aspx?sid=16
http://blogs.msdn.com/aniyer/search.aspx?q=webcast&p=1

Did you know?:
The description file is not the same as the control itself. It is an XML file that ends with a .WebPart extension and contains name/value pairs--mostly property values--that describe the state of the control. The description file is created according to a specified XML format, as described in the topic Web Parts Control Description Files.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.webparts.importcatalogpart(d=ide).aspx