Developing ASP.Net Server Controls and Components (Pro-Developer)

Web Forms—the Page and Control Framework at the heart of ASP.NET—makes it easier to develop dynamic Web applications. But you can go beyond the controls that ship with ASP.NET—and power up your Web sites and applications—by creating your own server controls. You can also develop and distribute your own controls for commercial use. This comprehensive guide, direct from key insiders who really know the technology, combines conceptual and architectural details with practical, how-to information and real-world code samples to show exactly how to create custom, reusable, professional-quality server controls with rich design-time functionality. It also provides essential information about configuration and the HTTP runtime, packaging, deployment, debugging, and developing controls that incorporate XML Web services, plus other vital topics. And it introduces the ASP.NET Web Matrix tool for creating Web applications and for using server controls. Topics covered include:

OVERVIEW

• ASP.NET page programming
• Component programming

SERVER CONTROLS

• User controls
• Implementing properties
• View state management
• Rendering
• Control life cycle
• Events and Postback
• Styles
• Composite, validator, and data-bound controls
• Client-side behavior
• Design-time functionality
• Localization, licensing, and deployment

SERVER COMPONENTS

• XML Web services
• HTTP handlers

SERVER CONTROL CASE STUDIES

• Templated data-bound controls
• DHTML-based server controls

“[This book] is a must-have for all serious ASP.NET component developers.”

-Scott Guthrie, Product Unit Manager, Microsoft ASP.NET Product Team

Nikhil Kothari is a developer on the ASP.NET team and has developed many of the complex controls that ship with the .NET Framework SDK.

• Chapter 1: ASP.NET Overview
• Chapter 2: Page Programming Model
• Chapter 3: Component Programming Overview

• Chapter 4: User Controls: From Page to Control
• Chapter 5: Developing a Simple Custom Control
• Chapter 6: Custom Controls vs. User Controls

• Chapter 7: Simple Properties and View State
• Chapter 8: Rendering
• Chapter 9: Control Life Cycle, Events, and Postback
• Chapter 10: Complex Properties and State Management
• Chapter 11: Styles in Controls
• Chapter 12: Composite Controls
• Chapter 13: Client-Side Behavior
• Chapter 14: Validator Controls
• Chapter 15: Design-Time Functionality
• Chapter 16: Data-Bound Controls
• Chapter 17: Localization, Licensing, and Other Miscellany

• Chapter 18: XML Web Services
• Chapter 19: HTTP Handlers

• Chapter 20: Data-Bound Templated Controls
• Chapter 21: DHTML-Based Server Controls

• Metadata Attributes
• Object Model for Common Classes
• Microsoft ASP.NET Web Matrix