Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768 EAN: 9780735619241 ISBN: 0735619247 Label: Microsoft Press Manufacturer: Microsoft Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 528 Publication Date: November 05, 2003 Publisher: Microsoft Press Sales Rank: 550588 Studio: Microsoft Press
Product DescriptionCreate compelling and effective program interfaces that best suit your users’ needs—and make your products more competitive and useful—by customizing the intrinsic controls in the Microsoft .NET Framework and building your own controls from scratch.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Not particularly useful for ASP.NET programmers
The book had no real vaulable informaiton for an ASP.NET programmer. The book similar to this, written in C#, is so much better even if you have to translate the C#. I do not recommend this book if you're working in the ASP.NET environment. I can not speak to WinForms and this book, but the C# book will work fine for both environments.
Rating: - The outstanding, and the ugly
This book is unusual in that, in addition to providing you with the information you actually bought the book for, you get lots of information about some pretty obscure .Net topics. Even better (assuming you're an experienced VB Developer), he doesn't waste so darn much space taking up topics you're already sick of reading about (controlling program flow, what is a class, and the like). He also mentioned in passing a couple of little gems in the SDK that I was unaware of. Of course, if you're not ... Read More
Rating: - Good Book, lacking in the ASP.NET Department
This was an excellent book for VB.NET Windows Applications (all examples were for windows, but the principals and some of the code would work for the web) in using Editors, Type Converters, Designers; a lot of the advanced topics.
Talking directly about ASP.NET and mobile applications was lacking a lot, in my opinion, but overall still I thought it was a great book to teach more advanced topics useful at design time.
Rating: - Learn nooks and crannys of the .Net Framework
If you think you know the framework, I suggest you take a look at Mr. Connell's book. He covers many undercovered areas in great detail. Isolated storage and encryption come to mind. In short, if you are looking for new material, I highly recommend this book. Its on a par with Mr. Connell's .Net Coding Techniques.
Rating: - Okay book
Goes very deep into building .Net controls including some licensing models and some encryption. However, it doesn't talk much about the why of coding. John Connell just tells you how to do it. He does not explain why you would use certain methods or components.
So, if you wanted to know the "whys" of coding, this book is not for you.
- Not particularly useful for ASP.NET programmers
- Learn nooks and crannys of the .Net Framework
- Okay book
