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Title: Professional ASP.NET Server Controls: Building Custom Controls with C# by MAtt Butler, Thiru Thangarathinam, Matt Milner, Michael Clark, Ryan O'Keefe, Angelo Kastroulis, Jan Narkiewicz, Daniel Cazzulino ISBN: 1-86100-564-4 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.22 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The best book on web server controls...
Comment: For the price you may expect twice the book (a tad over 400 pages is small in tech books terms), but don't be fooled, the content of this book is very rich and much of it is hard to come by otherwise. Unless you enjoy spending hours digging though the msdn and Microsoft newsgroups, this book is for you!
As with many of the newer Wrox titles, this one is organized more like a collection of articles. This format has been the cause of many bad reviews, and while I don't care for the article approach most of the time, on Pro ASP.NET Server Controls... it works quite well. I bought the book with a specific task in mind, I needed to create a unique custom control that had multiple child controls inside of it, my only previous knowledge of server controls was what I had from the Professional ASP.NET book (which equates to about a chapter of this book) the material found in the Pro ASP.NET book left me with more questions than answers and I needed something to help me really understand what goes on inside and out of a web server control and how to integrate properly with the .NET Framework, with this book I achieved that goal within three hours of reading and experimenting, it truely was a life saver for helping meet one of our milestones.
So why only four stars? Well, as others have pointed out, the book isn't perfect, I did have to use the VS.NET on-line help to lookup how to generate client-side script for postback events, better examples could have been provided, but overall it's very good.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you're going to build controls, get this book
Comment: There are a lot of technical books these days that seem like a real waste of time and money, arent' there? This one isn't like that. The authors don't waste your time with an introduction to ASPX or C#, don't bore you with the basics of programming, or anything like that. Instead they give you a focused, on-topic description of the topic. The examples are good, the prose clear and concise, and the chapters broken down well.
Another plus is that they tend to stay editor-agnostic. Aside from a few comments (and one full chapter) on Visual Studio.net, everything else can be followed using Notepad. The Visual Studio chapter is pretty good, too.
I can't say it enough -- if you've got to build controls, you've got to get this book. Get it now. (No, I'm not one of the authors!)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not so in-depth to drive me crazy
Comment: 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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Title: Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components by Nikhil Kothari, Vandana Datye ISBN: 0735615829 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 28 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Professional ASP.NET Web Forms Techniques by Alex Homer ISBN: 1861007868 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Visual C# .NET Language Reference by Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Corporation ISBN: 0735615543 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 06 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Professional ASP.NET Web Services by Andreas Eide, Chris Miller, Bill Sempf, Srinivasa Sivakumar, Mike Batongbacal, Matthew Reynolds, Mike Clark, Brian Loesgen, Robert Eisenberg, Brandon Bohling ISBN: 1861005458 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: ASP.NET Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution C# Edition by Marco Bellinaso, Kevin Hoffman ISBN: 1861006934 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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