Professional Web Parts and Custom Controls with ASP.NET 2.0 (Wrox Professional Guides) [Paperback]

Peter Vogel (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 076457860X | ISBN-13: 978-0764578601 | Publication Date: November 7, 2005 | Edition: 1

• Web Parts are reusable components that extract data from existing Microsoft or non-Microsoft applications for use in ASP.NET Web pages; they can also be used to build user controls
• Presents developers with an understanding of how Web Parts work and how they can be developed
• Examines how to secure and integrate Web Parts into other Windows systems (SQL Server, Office, ASP.NET, Content Manager)

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From the Back Cover

Professional Web Parts and Custom Controls with ASP.NET 2.0

Custom controls, user controls, and Web Parts can make you more productive in many ways. You can create re-usable components for your WebForms, package a piece of your user interface and re-use it across several Web sites, and create exactly the ASP.NET controls you want. Web Parts, new with ASP.NET 2.0, allow you to create user interfaces with the user's involvement, making you more productive than ever before.

This book teaches you how to create controls using Visual Studio® 2005. Packed with business-related applications, it explains the costs and benefits of different ways to accomplish a goal, offers scenarios illustrating the use of each technique, and helps you make informed choices as you develop controls specifically geared to your business purposes.

What you will learn from this book

• The role of user controls, custom controls, and Web Parts in solving specific problems
• Methods for setting up your custom control project in Visual Studio 2005
• How to create a Web Part and extend the framework by adding functions
• New features in ASP.NET 2.0 that help you manage state in your controls
• How to add client-side code to custom controls, build your own validator control, and create a databinding control

Who this book is for

This book is for professional Web developers who already know how to create a WebForm and want to begin creating their own controls. Some experience with creating objects is helpful, but advanced skill as an object developer is not necessary.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

About the Author

Peter Vogel (MBA, MCSD) is a principal in PH&V Information Services. PH&V provides consulting services in client/server and Web development. Its clients include Volvo, Christie Digital, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the Government of Ontario, and Microsoft. Peter’s white papers appeared in the Visual Studio .NET and Office 2003 release package. Peter is the editor of the Smart Access newsletter from Pinnacle Publishing, and wrote The Visual Basic Object and Component Handbook, which has been called “The definitive guide to ‘thinking with objects.’” Peter was the founding editor of the XML Developer newsletter. In addition to teaching for Learning Tree International, Peter wrote their ASP.NET 1.1, ASP.NET 2.0, and Technical Writing courses. His articles have appeared in every major magazine devoted to VB-based development and can be found in the Microsoft Developer Network libraries.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: WROX; 1 edition (November 7, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076457860X
• ISBN-13: 978-0764578601
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,301,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too bad he never finished it., March 16, 2006

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This review is from: Professional Web Parts and Custom Controls with ASP.NET 2.0 (Wrox Professional Guides) (Paperback)

Peter seems to know what he's talking about. Unfortunately the book is FULL of mistakes. Peter codes in VB, and the C# translations that he provides were obviously not tested. They were copied and psted from the VB code and only half translated. They don't even come close to compiling. I would have hoped downloading the code from the wrox website would have provided the fixes, but unfortuntatly they rushed this one out, and didn't look back.

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!, January 26, 2006

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This review is from: Professional Web Parts and Custom Controls with ASP.NET 2.0 (Wrox Professional Guides) (Paperback)

A month or so ago VS 2005 arrived. One of the new things is Web Parts. I looked, I scratched my head I played around with them a little bit, and really got no where. Some searching on the web and nothing that really helped at the usual ASP sites.
I have done the quick afternoon read on the book, and now am on chapter two as I work through the text in some detail. So far the book is excellent. No long winded code examples that float off in to nether land, this stuff is right to the point and easy to understand. Peter Vogel seems to make the very correct assumption that the readers of this book already know the language they use and the development tool they use. However, just as it says on the back cover, "Some experience with creating objects is helpful, but advanced skill as an object developer is not necessary", is right on. What this really means is that anybody writing any kind of website with ASP.Net can grasp this book. And everybody who is considering getting into webparts on their websites should get this book.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written, March 23, 2006

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This review is from: Professional Web Parts and Custom Controls with ASP.NET 2.0 (Wrox Professional Guides) (Paperback)

Out of all the books I have, this is the most poorly written one. Terms are misused and mixed up in the later chapters (which I realized after further research of my own). No one example that progresses throughout the book. It's like he figured out how this works, did a quick off-the-wall example and through it in the book. In some cases, the information you used from a previous chapter will not work with a future chapter without making changes, if you would have used one example through out the book you would have realized this. I am also giving him one star b/c he felt that he needed to give himself 5, this will bring it down to more accurate rating.