# Great timesaver if you're writing templated ASP.NET Server Controls

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Great timesaver if you're writing templated ASP.NET Server Controls 

posted on Friday, June 18, 2004 11:17 PM

[Andy Smith](http://weblogs.asp.net/asmith) published a phenomenally [handy code snippet](http://weblogs.asp.net/asmith/articles/SimpleTemplatedControlDesigner.aspx)on his blog which does a lot of the grunt work for generating DesignTimeHtml for Templated server controls for ASP.NET.