I few months ago I posted on RenderPatterns and how they are used when creating custom fields for SharePoint. In that post the point I was trying to make was that when viewing data in a list nothing else matters except the render pattern. None of your highfalutin C# SPField derived classes can save you from the madness that is the render pattern. Never mind what MSDN says about using an .ascx control - there is no other way. So with that said, given that we’re stuck with the render pattern, it would be good to know a bit...