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Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2
EAN: 9781861005649
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 1861005644
Label: Wrox Press
Manufacturer: Wrox Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 450
Publication Date: 2002-02
Publisher: Wrox Press
Studio: Wrox Press
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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.
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I consider this a great book for starting to work with ASP.NET Server Controls. I have the MS Press book also but it is just so deep right off the start that it was hard for me to follow. (Although now I refer to it more and more) I have referenced this book may times for creating my server controls and it has been very helpful! Maybe the key is purchasing all of the server control books you can find and taking the best of each but I would definitely recommend this book as a great starting point for server controls.
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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
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Wow. This book is really confusing! I bought this book last year when I started working on a large project using .NET. It's been over 12 months and I'm grown to love .NET---and built-up quite a bag of tools.
When 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.
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This is probably the most disappointing technical book I have ever seen.
I 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 ... Read More
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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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