 See larger picture | Professional ASP.NET Server Controls: Building Custom Controls with C#
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MAtt Butler, Thiru Thangarathinam, Matt Milner, Michael Clark, Ryan O'Keefe, Angelo Kastroulis, Jan Narkiewicz, and Daniel Cazzulino
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Product Description Server Controls are a core part of the ASP.NET architecture. They are components that produce a user interface element that can be reused with ease. The standard controls that come with ASP.NET include the textbox, the button, the data and list controls, and some rich controls (for example, the calendar control). This book is designed to show you how to create your own controls, either from scratch, or based on existing controls. This book is designed to be a complete reference on how to create Custom Server Controls using C#. In essence, it's a definitive guide to what they're used for, how they are created, and the benefits that they can provide. The first part of the book will be concentrating on the code itself, and is designed to be editor-neutral, concentrating on the raw code involved in creating controls and making use of these controls. The second part of the book will have more coverage of visual designers like Visual Studio .NET, talking about why using IDEs is so helpful, and examining the powerful features of Visual Studio .NET that are useful when creating custom controls. This book is a comprehensive guide to all of the processes involved in creating fully-functional server controls, including handling events, managing state, templating, creating data binding controls, and distributing controls. The book will finish with a case study that will bring together all of the concepts discussed in the earlier chapters.
Featured Customer Reviews  Not so in-depth to drive me crazy,
February 05, 2004advance book but first 7 chapter were good,
December 28, 2003 chapter 1-7 was okay very good for a beginner
with v good explnations
chapter 8 onwards the chapters just went downhill
Cannot get chapter 8 and chapter 9 downloads to work
there were full of bugs
It was very hard to try get the the last examples in
the few chapters to work since the explnations were
very poor too Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen,
November 11, 2003When I returned to this book recently to build my own custom controls, I thought it would be much more comprehensible than my first attempt. Unfortunately it wasn't. That is, until I read a few articles and an excerpt from Dino Esposito's book! Esposito's explanations were so much more clear and simple--while this book took that same subject and made it so complicated! Don't buy this book.  Terrible book - Please stay clear,
July 09, 2003I started developing custom server controls in the earlier days of ASP.NET 1.0, when this was the only book available on the topic. This book was of literally zero help despite being written particularly for the topic. In fact, if anything, it was confusing and hindered my efforts repeatedly. The book is a loosely related collection of materials written or assembled by the multitude of authors. Some of the portions of the book seem almost directly taken from Microsoft's freely available documentation. Not surprisingly, the weak points in the documentation typically coincide with the weakest points of the book. In other words, the book is useless. Wrox's own general ASP.NET book "Professional ASP.NET" and the various free online resources were of much more help in early 2002, and there are many more alternatives now. By the time I was done with my first full-featured custom server control I realized that it was extremely unlikely that any of the authors had gone through the same experience prior to writing the book. This made me approach the publisher with the request for a full refund, a decision on which was delayed until I finally gave up and regretfully threw the book in the garbage. It is my understanding that the newer editions of the book have added some of the most glaring omissions (like a full chapter on generating client-side script, where the original edition offered nothing). However, there is no fixing a house this crooked. There are much better books available now, like "Server Controls" by Kothari and Datye. Confusing more than helpful,
February 17, 2003 As it is often the case with WROX books, this one is glued from pieces written by different authors. Reading their books is like having deja vues all the time. The synergy among chapters is quite poor.Compared to Kothari's book this one merely scratches the surface and leaves a lot of important details by the side. If I hadn't read Nikhil Kotari's book first, I would've been completely confused by this piece. Don't get me wrong---the book *does* have valuable information for developing server controls *if you are not a beginner*. Would I recommend this book? Only if you go through Nikhil Kothari's book first and then want to learn a few more tricks. Don't expect to be taught much from this book. Overall, 2 stars for inadequate coverage and a ton of typos and errors in the samples and throughout the text. I really wish WROX quit releasing hodge podge books and did a better job at reviewing them prior to publishing.
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