"Developing .NET Custom Controls and Designers Using C#" starts with an introduction to basic, but important, prerequisites, including data binding and event handling. It then goes into type conversion and editor implementation topics. The book discusses both Windows Forms and ASP.NET Web Forms, their basic architectures, and how to go about writing custom controls and designers to support these technologies.
"Developing .NET Custom Controls and Designers Using Visual Basic .NET" is a bible for experienced developers who have a basic understanding of Visual Basic and the .NET framework, and who are ready to move to the next level of .NET programming, creating custom controls and designers. Its purpose is to provide intermediate to senior-level developers the information they need to successfully implement custom controls and designers for both Windows Forms and ASP.NET.
Whether you are using Windows Forms to build rich-client business applications or the ASP.NET framework to build powerful web applications or web services, the use of well-designed graphics will greatly enhance their usability, impact, and visual appeal. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the use of GDI+ in .NET applications and aims to provide developers with all the information they need to build effective custom controls.
The intent of this book is to teach .NET developers the skills necessary to create their own leading-edge custom controls. The art of creating custom controls has never been truly explored in detail, this book will not only provide that knowledge, but, in addition provide the source for a fully functional outlook bar control.
Server Controls are a core part of the ASP.NET architecture. They are components that produce a user interface element that can be reused with ease. The standard controls that come with ASP.NET include the textbox, the button, the data and list controls, and some rich controls (for example, the calendar control). This book is designed to show you how to create your own controls, either from scratch, or based on existing controls. It is designed to be a complete reference on how to create Custom Server Controls. In essence, it's a definitive guide to what they're used for, how they are created, and the benefits that they can provide. The first part of the book concentrates on the code itself, and is designed to be editor-neutral, concentrating on the raw code involved in creating controls and making use of these controls. The second part of the book has more coverage of visual designers like Visual Studio .NET, talking about why using IDEs is so helpful, and examining the powerful features of Visual Studio .NET that are useful when creating custom controls.
- The WinForms team at Microsoft praises Chris as a definitive authority; Microsoft has named Chris one of eight Software Legends - The content and structure are based on years of experience both building apps with WinForms as well as teaching other developers about WinForms - Alan Cooper, the 'father of Visual Basic', has provided the foreword for the book
This book provides business developers and architects the information they need to successfully implement business intelligence solutions using Information Bridge Framework and Visual Studio .NET.
This book will follow the proven pattern of its previous .NET 2.0 and .NET 1.1 editions, teaching novice users how to use ASP.NET by gradually building their knowledge of the technology up in a pyramidal fashion chapter by chapter. Comprehensively revised for both ASP.NET 3.5 and the new C# 3.0 language this book presents the easiest path to ASP.NET 3.5 mastery. This is one of the first books introducing novices to this important new technology area, and is written specifically in their coding language of preference. The book is written by a proven and award winning .NET author that has been following the technology release cycle since its inception.
