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Developing MS .NET Controls With MS VB.NET

Book Description Paperback: 528 pages Publisher: Microsoft Press (November 5, 2003) Language: English ISBN-10: 0735619247 ISBN-13: 978-0735619241

Create 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.

As another reviewer mentioned, this book is exceptional many ways. If you have never heard of a custom designer, isolated storage, custom editors, type converters, advanced use of attributes and serialization, use of encryption, using raw GDI+, designer verbs, etc., if you are like me you will probably find this book useful. I have been using .net since 2/2002 and thought I knew my way around the framework. But I didnt realize another hidden universe of capablity regarding custom controls. Each chapter develops new and mostly useful controls you can place on your tool palette.

One example in particular lets you inherit a stock textbox, and add an extender to allow it of validate a phone number, email address, url, or other input with regular expressions. No need to rewrite this boring code over and over. Click this on your toolbox and you have a new control. Or you might want to add / remove properties from a new or existing control. If you have been using ASP.NET, a simple program shows you how to decrypt the Viewstate. Complete programs on control licensing show how to use various techniques to usethe licensing object and the registry or XML to handle piracy.

The thing I like is that each chapter has one or more full programs that are targeted at program designers. For example, sorting a listbox in VB6 was easy, but in .net it’s ASCII only. Connell shows how to build a .dll to sort in numeric, date, or any other sort order. While you would think this is built in – it’s not?? which makes the stock control limited for all but the most trivial use. Anyway, I liked the book for those reasons. Some sections could be longer and others shorter – but on balance it’s well written and you are probably guaratneed to learn more from this book than many of the others filling the bookshelves. One thing I have to say is that now I “think” about developing my own custom controls – either for work use or for sale to other developers. I never thought like this before, so for this alone it was worth the read.

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