When developing controls for a designer environment like Visual Studio or WebMatrix, the complexities of persisting control properties as serialized HTML can come into play. In many cases, the built-in serialization of control properties as attributes or nested child tags is sufficient. There are also several code attributes available to a control developer to apply a degree of customization for this process. In some cases however, a developer requires a greater degree of control over how control properties are persisted as HTML.
