1. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable storage media having thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to instantiate and/or operate the following: a multi-act resource creation element configured to appear when a user instructs the computing system to initiate creation of a resource, each of the at least some of the plurality of creation processing acts involving inputting of creation information that the set of one or more controls will use to create the resource, the multi-act resource creation element persisting creation information entered in each of the at least some of the plurality of creation processing acts.