SPTechnique: Custom Field control implemented as a User Control

When creating custom controls it is often must easier to create a control using the "User Control" development model instead of the "Server Control" model. Server controls generally have a more "low level" feel and dictate that the developer build the control's rendering from scratch. Either by building a control tree or by constructing the rendered output in code. Alternatively user controls have nice separation of code and presentation by virtue of having a markup file (.ascx) and a code behind file; much like a standard aspx page. User controls can be created and developed using the same standard approaches and processes that we all know and love from the aspx page model.