IE Web Controls Not Supported February 03 2006
I was just looking up some reference information on the ol’ MSDN when lo-and-behold the IE Web Controls that were raved about in many ASP.NET books are no longer supported by the evil Redmond Empire.
Its probably because they suck…
Actually the problem lies in the fact that once you start ASP.NET coding, you are so used to having a tight relationship with server objects and being able to control things from the server side through (runat=”server”) that items such as TabStrips become a real pain in the ass. Ever try to embed panels and the like within friggin IE:PageView tags and try to reference them in an easy way in Visual Studio? *Ugh*
Well fortunately .NET 2.0 has fixed these issues and included some new stuff such as MultiView. All we have to do now is wade through the nightmare of porting everything 
Take away lesson = Forget those stupid IE Web Controls. Just CSS and use lotsa hiding instead of that TabStrip crap!
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