Adding a Color Picker Control To Your ASP.NET Application

<p> Over the years worked on a number of projects where users could customize some aspect of the site. One such application surveyed a group of employees with and then made recommendations on how to best organize the employees into teams. Companies could buy a certain number of surveys and then direct their employees to the site to complete the survey. Before sending their employees to the site, a company could adjust the look and feel, uploading their own logo and choosing background and foreground colors, among other customizations. </p><p> A common requirement for such customizable websites is the ability for the user to select one or more colors. In a website, colors are typically specified via a hexadecimal string that specifies the red, green, and blue components. For example, the string <code>#FF0000</code> is the string for the color red. Of course, asking a user to choose a color by typing in a hexadecimal string is a surefire way to confound and frustrate them. Ideally, users will select colors from a <i>color picker</i>, which is a user interface element that displays a palette of colors from which the user can select one. </p><p> ASP.NET does not ship with a built-in color picker control, but there are a variety of commercial, free, and open source color picker controls. This article looks at two such controls. This article starts with a look at the open source <a Control Extender</a> that ships as part of the <a Control Toolkit</a>. Next, it examines the free <a Color Picker control</a> from <a Read on to learn more! <br /><a More &gt;</a></p>

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