Arguably one of the best new aspects of C# 2.0 is Generics.  Generics gives us the best of two worlds.  The one world is the ability to write generic non-type specific code that can be reused with many different types.   The other world is the world of strongly typed objects. 

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how to create a simple composite server control for ASP.Net 2.0.  Just as important, or more importantly, it demonstrates the benefits of creating your own custom server controls.  I will demonstrate these points by walking through a simple example scenario where the task is accomplished without the use of a custom control.  We will then turn the solution into a custom server control that can be reused throughout our sites and across various other projects where such functionality would be useful.