Book Description
This book shows you how to get the most from these controls to easily display and manage complex data in your web applications. It takes you through each of the major data presentation controls in ASP.NET, gets you started using them, and then shows you how to use them in your applications for managing your data.
Customer Reviews & Comments
While this is not a book for beginners in the ASP.NET world I found the book to be very informative. Joydip Kanjilal has taken a section of data handling and display, dug into the internals and brings it to the pages of his first book. Even though I've been in the ASP.NET world since it's inception I've never been a strong UI type developer. With this book I have the essentials for using Win UI data display components. Now, for the little nits: While all the bits and parts were covered the book and the author displays a very clear understanding of the subject it was a little rough in parts. Some of it was due to inconsistent indentations in code examples, some code bits that would obviously (to a seasoned developer) not compile due to syntax errors (using upper ASCII instead of quotes, line wrap issues not marked, etc). For a first dive into LINQ Joydip did an excellent job. While many people are trying to determine if LINQ is the right fit I see many uses for it in current and future development. While some are against writing inline SQL in their business objects and others are all for it I think LINQ is the middle part of data <--
