File: FullyRenderedControl.cs namespace myControls { public class FullyRenderedControl : Control { private string _Text; public string Text { get { return _Text; } set { _Text = value; } } protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer) { writer.Write(_Text); } } } File: Default.aspx <%@ Page Language="C#" %> <%@ Register TagPrefix="custom" Namespace="myControls" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head id="Head1" runat="server"> <title>Show Fully Rendered Control</title> </head> <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <div> <custom:FullyRenderedControl ID="FullyRenderedControl1" Text="Hello World!" runat="Server" /> </div> </form> </body> </html>