Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components

This comprehensive guide combines conceptual and architectural details with practical, how-to information and real-world code samples to show how to create custom, reusable, professional-quality server controls with rich design-time functionality.

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Not easy, But there is no alternative.
I have searched books about asp.net custom controls. I can find several books. But no other one is better than this book. This book handles quite hard concept. And the sample code is quite long to follow. But I think there is no other option. You have to be patient. If you want to learn how to make asp.net custom control. You must buy this book. It is still valuable in asp.net 3.5 age

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Perfect! Just Perfect! For all .NET versions
Been studying this book for months, really an arduous journey. I can say those who gave this book less than 5 star just didnt get it at all.

Reading this book is like watching the author dissecting the whole asp.net before you step by step!

Yes, you might realize this book is bloody good after reading the 1st Chap, but you might also find at the same time that this book is very hard to follow. Yes, it is a tough book. Because this book is .net professional-oriented and also because of .net framework's intimidating scale and convoluted hierachical structure itself.

This book will definitely bring your understanding of asp.net to the highest possible level(The impossible level is to aquire source code of core asp.net implementation from Microsoft.LoL)

Once you've truely digested this book (not swallow), you will find how trivial it is to build an asp.net page!You can now build powerful controls by your own and they would be used by others! (Copyrights! Aha!)

However, some need to be familiar with more or less the whole map of CFL to get a quick understanding of this book with less pain and reading this book itself is a procedure of learning CFL within the whole ./web namespace! Its really challenging!

Why I said this book is for all .net versions. because new controls or components provided by .net 2.0 or above just abstract some codes in this books to a higher level(packaging them into new classes and that's it). In other words, this books contains some arguably genuine source code from Microsoft! Precious!! Its my Precious! LoL

Happy studying! Thx Nikhil, brilliant work!

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A Very Complete Reference
If you are a proficient ASP developer and are familiar with advanced C# progrmming topics like events and delegates, this book gives you a thorough knowledge about server controls. After looking into many ASP.NET books, this is the first book which doesn't waste the reader's time to describe non-related topics.

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Just a joy to read, but this is not a `for dummies` book.
This is the de-facto `advanced` book on authoring ASP.NET server controls and components. I read a couple other `for dummies` books to get up to speed, but I still had quite a few unanswered, nagging questions. Well, this is the book to take your development of ASP.NET controls and components to the next level by removing the veil for some of the magic going on behind the scenes.

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One of the worst technical books I've encountered
It may be a nice reference but in no way it is a good explanation of how to get things done! The authors wrote the book without thinking of what readers might want to see.
This is technical writing not a tutorial. I've read great tech books (like .NET Framework by Jeff Richter) where one doesn't have to read a paragraph twice. This book is not one of those.
It is also very difficult to trace how things are related to each other and where they come from.