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Summary: Get ready to work
Review: This book may be a "must have", but only because of the lack of good books on ASP.NET control programming. It is not bad, but it is far from great. The book does go into a fine amount of detail concerning the "behind the scenes" functionality of controls - a must for serious control development - but often does a poor job explaining those details. It does a good job of "showing" code, but not so great a job at "teaching" code. Many explanations can be inconsistent, unclear, dense, and frustrating...it's often left to you to really determine why and how the code works by backtracking through the book, using MSDN documentation, or looking items up in another book.Control coverage is good - if explanations had been presented a bit more clearly and consistently, the book would be great.
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Summary: It is good but...
Review: This book tells you everything you need to know about the subject. Good book well written. But I am a VB geek and all the campanion code is in C#. The book would be so much easier to use if they would of only included VB examples with the C# examples that are available online. I am not even asking that they have the examples in VB in the book, just online. I know that there is not a lot of diffrence between the way C# and VB.net address the objects in Dot.net, but it is a bit of a nusiance trying to figure out things when you have to spend so much time on C#-Centric things rather then the logic of the controls. I dont know how many Vb programmers there are but I would think that it would be worthwhile to have some VB code for the book someplace. I will get through this text but I am spending more time translating the examples into VB then I am getting to know controls.
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Summary: Awesome...Great book
Review: This is "THE" book on server controls. The contents are very clear and the concepts are nicely explained.
Anyone who wants to develop the server controls must buy this book. I had read book on the same topic from Wrox, but this book overshadows the Wrox book.
The best part is that author gradually takes us from building a simple control to very complex one. In the process, he explains all the concepts. Reading this book was like taking an inside tour of the server controls.
However I think that the companion CD would have been a bonus.
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Summary: Awesome...Great book
Review: This is "THE" book on server controls. The contents are very clear and the concepts are nicely explained.
Anyone who wants to develop the server controls must buy this book. I had read book on the same topic from Wrox, but this book overshadows the Wrox book.
The best part is that author gradually takes us from building a simple control to very complex one. In the process, he explains all the concepts. Reading this book was like taking an inside tour of the server controls.
However I think that the companion CD would have been a bonus.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: This is good technical book for developing server controls. it has good example to follow.
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Summary: The bible of ASP.net technology.
Review: This is the best asp.net book. Read through it, you'll get a big jump.
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Summary: IT HAS A FINE PRACTICAL APPROACH
Review: With its practical approach to issues, this well-written book exposed the intricacies of ASP .NET Components. It shows its reader how to take the full advantages of .NET Server Controls and Components without wasting any time on unnecessary formalities. Every topic is laid out in a simple step-by-step method. If you can afford the time required to go through its contents once, you would come to realize what you have been missing.
The only blame any impatient learner may lay on this book is that it takes its time in explaining an otherwise simple term. But, that is just how it cares for beginners who may not do without some initial breast-feeding.
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