The ASP.NET 2.0 Framework introduced web developers to dozens of new server controls and components, and a greatly expanded and easier structure for writing their own server controls and components. Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control and Component Development covers the breadth of server control functionality as well as the rest of the membership, role management, SchemaImporterExtension, and so on - the functionality referred to as components. Written for the experienced ASP.NET developer, Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control and Component Development will show you how to write your first sever control or custom component.
The step-by-step coverage drills down to the details of the extensible part of the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework that you need to extend to write the specified type of custom control or component. Rather than present the extensible part as a black box, it presents a detailed step-by-step approach to implement functional replica of the extensible part, discusses the replica's code in detail, and provides an in-depth coverage of the techniques, tools, and technologies used in the code. From there you get a detailed practical recipe for developing the specified type of custom control or component and book then uses the recipe to implement one or more real-world custom controls or components of the specified type that you can use in your own Web applications.
Some of the many types of controls and components you'll learn to build are:
Ajax-enabled controls and components: four chapters on Ajax discuss and use Ajax patterns, ASP.NET 2.0 client callback mechanism, CSS, DOM, XML, and JavaScript to implement a number of Ajax-enabled controls and components.
Web Parts: four chapters on Web Parts in ASP.NET 2.0 develop a number of custom WebPart, EditorPart, CatalogPart, WebPartZone, WebPartChrome, WebPartVerb, WebPartManager, and data-bound WebPart controls.
5 chapters on ASP.NET 2.0 security, membership, and role management components
5 chapters on ASP.NET 2.0 tabular and hierarchical data source controls and custom Parameter components
4 chapters on ASP.NET 2.0 tabular data-bound controls and data control fields
Developing controls and components that can access any type of data store and automate all their data operations such as Delete, Update, Insert, and Sort.
XML Web service, WSDL, Google XML Web service API, SchemaImporterExtension, ISerializable, and CodeDom
XmlReader, XmlWriter, XPathNavigator, DOM, and XmlResolver
Provider-Based Services including how to implement a RSS service provider that can feed RSS from any type of data store such as SQL Server, file system, Web services, and so on
HTTP modules, HTTP handler factories, HTTP handlers, and control builders including developing an HTTP module and an HTTP handler factory that perform URL rewriting and an HTTP handler that generates RSS feeds
User controls and composite and templated custom controls
State management and custom type converters.
Events, IPostBackEventHandler, IPostBackDataHandler, and Page lifecycle
This book is also available as part of the 5-book ASP.NET 2.0 Wrox Box (ISBN: 0-470-11757-5). This 5-book set includes:
Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition (ISBN: 0-470-04178-1)
ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution (ISBN: 0764584642 )
Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management (ISBN: 0764596985)
Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control and Component Development (ISBN: 0471793507)
ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips (ISBN: 0764597663)
CD-ROM with more than 1000 pages of bonus chapters from 15 other .NET 2.0 and SQL Server(TM) 2005 Wrox books
DVD with 180-day trial version of Microsoft(r) Visual Studio(r) 2005 Professional Edition
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
Prepare to write your own book:
While this book has some valuable content, prepare to do a lot of research. By the time you get through this book, you will have researched so much more than what this book purports to teach and you will be able to write your own book on the subject. In the Introduction to the book, Wrox Press' standard boiler-plate text states "As you work through the examples in this book, you may choose either to type in all the code manually or to use the source code files that accompany this book" (pg. xxxiv).... more info
good coverage, terrible writing style:
This book covers topics for which content is difficult to find elsewhere and for that I give it the 3 stars. However, the writing style for the book is terrible. Much of the text reads like lawyer jargon and wastes too much page real estate explaining and re-explaining irrelevant items to the topic at hand. Minus 2 stars for the annoyingly awkward writing style.
Unorganized:
This book has some very useful information, but it's poorly organized. In many cases, the most complex possible case is explained, followed by more simple solutions. In many cases, I found myself reading through large amounts of code and descriptions only to find an actual explanation of what was going on many pages later. It's also very difficult to use as a reference because every example relies on specfic code in the previous examples. In fact, the first several chapters are all rebuilding the exact... more info
Just Show Me The Baby:
There's an old line my boss used to use when people were being long winded with an explanation of something. He would say, "Stop telling me about the labor and just show me the baby." I guess this describes what I want in a technical manual. I like lots of examples and code, and a synopsis of what the pieces of code do. I don't want to know all of the interim steps you need to go through to understand the code. I have enough experience in programming (about 17 years) that I can infer why code works, or why... more info
