This book is great for learning how pages and controls work in ASP.NET.

— Aaron Weiker Weblog

This tutorial and reference will benefit you, the dedicated ASP.NET developer. If you understand the gains of object-oriented development, and want to apply those principles to ASP.NET and server control development, then this book will be your guide!

In fact, this book is the most up-to-date text available on the market. Hot, new topics of discussion include mobile server control development (for supporting mobile phone web application development), and how to utilize the latest versions of Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the .NET Framework 1.1.

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Building ASP.NET Server Controls will be both a tutorial and a reference for the serious ASP.NET developer who understands the benefits of object-oriented development and wants to apply those principles to ASP.NET and server control development. It is important to note that this book is the most up-to-date book available. It covers the important new area of mobile server control development to support mobile phone web application development as well as using the latest version of Visual Studio .NET (2003) and the .NET Framework v1.1.

Customer Reviews & Comments
OK, first off I am not sure what the other reviewer was ralking about...he gave the book 5 stars, but take note that this is not an ASP book (see the title), and this is not from Microsoft Press..it is from Apress. Now that I have said that, I want to go on with my review. First of all there are only a few books out there like this now, and none of them come close to this one. This one will really teach you how to write your own server controls, and will show you how to do it for ASP.NET using C#...oh yeah, they use Visual Studio.NET (thankfully) and they also do it code behind (there is no other way for server controls, but in general they use VS.NET like it should be). The code which can be downloaded from Apress also works, and is updated for VS.NET 2003. In regards to the book, the author(s) make this book a fairly easy read. The first few chapters go through a bit of ASP.NET and then explains about HtmlControls and WebControls. The author explains the differences between the two, and when and why to use each one in a specific scenario. The book goes on to talk about OOP in general and how it fits in (they don't expalin OOP, but they show it and make passing references, not a lot...throughout the book, I have seen less than a total page worth, but they put it in the right spots). The chapter on Viewstate is excellent, and the chapter on binding and creating your own repeater server control inheriting from the DataRepeater was an eye-opener. The last 5 chapters in the book deal with more complicated server controls. The author dedicates time to speak about mobile controls...I read it quickly since I don't really do that, but it seemed good. Then there is a chapter which puts a lot of things together (everything you have read in the book so far) and shows how to make an image gallery (well sort of..it's more than just a gallery of course). The last chapter deals with how to use the Google API and create your own search engine...which was very cool. The author dedicates time explaining attributes and how they are used for server controls. He also spends time showing how to create a server control that can be easily put into VS Designer, which is good for someone selling a custom control. There is so much more to say, but Amamzon limits my words to 1000, and I have not slept in 36 hours...deadlines, and this book helped a ton! Just to end off, this book is C# (not VB.NET), and it is for advanced programmers working with ASP.NET...this book did not give a primer on C# or ASP.NET (thanks Dale/Rob). The authors know what they are talking about, and the book is easy to read. Enjoy! Comment | Permalink | (Report this)