Building ASP.NET Server Controls will be both a tutorial and a reference for the serious ASP.NET developer who understands the benefits of object-oriented development and wants to apply those principles to ASP.NET and server control development. It is important to note that this book is the most up-to-date book available. It covers the important new area of mobile server control development to support mobile phone web application development as well as using the latest version of Visual Studio .NET (2003) and the .NET Framework v1.1.
* Up to date for the latest release version of .NET
* Written by two Microsoft employees who have been using the technology for both internal and external use since it was in alpha stage.
* Describes the ASP.NET server control architecture in Visual Studio .NET 2003 covering state management, events, rendering, cross-platform support, control lifecycle, localization and deployment.
* Provides background on User Controls as compared with server controls, discussing the benefits and strengths of each.
* Discusses the various methods available to create server controls including inheritance, composition, and from scratch. Discusses when to use Control as a base class as compared to WebControl highlighting the tradeoffs.
* Demonstrates how to integrate client-side development technologies such as DHTML and JavaScript with server control technology to create powerful interactive controls.
* Covers ASP.NET mobile server control development including an in depth discussion of browser capabilities and device adapters when targeting the various mobile devices available.
* Covers how to enrich the design-time experience when building custom server controls including custom designers, custom property editors, as well as other design-time enhancements.
