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John Connell
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Product Description Every click on a menu item or a dialog box every interaction with a control shapes the user s experience and satisfaction with your software. Learn how to maximize the usability and impact of your Visual Basic .NET based solutions by using the powerful intrinsic controls in the .NET Framework right out of the box or by building complex controls from scratch. Expert developer and teacher John Connell shares a wealth of code samples and techniques to illustrate how .NET controls operate as well as how to integrate even the most complex controls into Windows Forms and Microsoft ASP.NET Web Forms. Whether you re developing in-house or commercial software, you ll learn how to build custom controls and other interface components that make your programs easy and enjoyable to use. Discover how to use encryption technologies, isolated storage, and serialization in the .NET Framework in your own programs and controls Build custom .NET type editors, type converters, and designers to add and manage sophisticated properties in your custom controls Learn how to inherit and enhance .NET controls from handling events to building custom designers Aggregate multiple .N ET intrinsic controls into one user control for simpler, custom functionality Use GDI+ to perform hit tests, create dynamic bitmaps, and add graphics to Windows Forms and ASP.NET controls Add licensing to your controls, including custom validation of authorized users Manipulate the built-in ASP.NET Web server controls, from basic HTML wrappers to the powerful DataGrid control Design ASP.NET custom server controls to create Web page hit counters, wireless applications, and more #160;
Featured Customer Reviews  Not particularly useful for ASP.NET programmers,
March 24, 2006The outstanding, and the ugly,
September 29, 2004 This book is unusual in that, in addition to providing you with the information you actually bought the book for, you get lots of information about some pretty obscure .Net topics. Even better (assuming you're an experienced VB Developer), he doesn't waste so darn much space taking up topics you're already sick of reading about (controlling program flow, what is a class, and the like). He also mentioned in passing a couple of little gems in the SDK that I was unaware of. Of course, if you're not an experienced developer, why are you buying a book on controls? (save your money!) So John Connell gets a dozen stars for content.
The ugly: the book is poorly edited. There are a number of typographical errors, grammatical word omissions, etc. There are innumerable bugs in the book's code. There are also a number of omissions in the instructions, of a type such as instructing you to add a class without mentioning which component to add the class to, things like that. You'll want to get the download code from MSPress, so you can look at his code to see where he added a module, or whatever. Because I am an experienced developer, I found that the debugging required actually improved my learning (by keeping me awake), but I'm pretty sure an inexperienced programmer would get pretty frustrated. So: no stars to MSPress for the editing and testing of code! Bad job here, you guys, and considerably worse than the job you usually do.
If you already know how to program, buy this book!Good Book, lacking in the ASP.NET Department,
September 10, 2004 This was an excellent book for VB.NET Windows Applications (all examples were for windows, but the principals and some of the code would work for the web) in using Editors, Type Converters, Designers; a lot of the advanced topics.
Talking directly about ASP.NET and mobile applications was lacking a lot, in my opinion, but overall still I thought it was a great book to teach more advanced topics useful at design time. Learn nooks and crannys of the .Net Framework,
July 02, 2004 Okay book,
June 01, 2004So, if you wanted to know the "whys" of coding, this book is not for you.
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