ASP.NET 1.1 Insider Solutions

Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: Sams (May 30, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672326744
ISBN-13: 978-0672326745
Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches







Are you getting the most from ASP.NET? While it's easy to build quite complex pages quickly and easily with ASP.NET, acquiring a more intimate knowledge of the Framework as a whole means that you can really take advantage of the great features it provides. This book is aimed at developers who are already familiar with ASP.NET, and explores some of the more advanced topics that help you to build better, more efficient, and more attractive Web pages and Web applications. In fact, many of the examples are designed to illustrate and provide solutions for questions and problems that appear regularly on the ASP.NET forums and newsgroups. Topics include getting more from the DataGrid control, creating reusable content as both user controls and server controls, page templating and cross-page posting, building secure applications, validating user input, relational and XML data handling issues, integrating client-side script, providing great cross-browser support, and much more.

User Review:
This is easily the best book on ASP.NET that I have read, among several titles from Wrox, Microsoft Press, etc. This book packs twice as much useful information into half the pages of the others, and is a steal at the going price.

Perfect for someone at the advanced beginner/intermediate level, there is no wasted space on how to declare a variable or construct a loop. Instead, the authors use several small project examples to highlight approaches to real-world issues such as injecting client-side script into .NET apps, building master-detail pages, and much more. One area that especially impressed me is the superb coverage of how to build a custom control. The explanation of custom controls in the other books I've read involves a waving of hands and a declaration of "that's how it's done". This book actually explains the process in a detailed and understandable manner, covering topics such as inheritance and the implementation of interfaces.

Shortcomings of the book are that virtually all the code is in VB (although there are occasional pointers to specific C# differences), and the controls that are built in the examples have an unfinished feel to them, and are not ready for inclusion in a web page without further work.

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