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One technique of building custom placeholder controls is to create Web Custom Controls that inherit directly from the BasePlaceholderControl class. This is probably the most popular and also the best documented method. The result is a set of Web Custom Controls that can be distributed to any MCMS web project that requires them.
Don't confuse Web Custom Controls with the Web User Controls we built in Chapter 13. The table below lists the differences between the two.