Book Review: "ASP.NET 1.1 Solutions Toolkit"
ASP.NET 1.1 Solutions Toolkit
by Victor Garcia Aprea, Daniel Cazzulino, Rick Delorme, et al. Published by APress
APress has done it again. I really enjoyed the theme and focus of this book, as it deals directly with custom control development and function-centric tools built with ASP.NET. The utilities presented are practical, timely, and those that any modern-day web programmer will need or has considered at some point. I'm didn't find the title to properly connote the content within, but it's certainly a great read.
My favorite examples are the RSS Reader, Globalizable Page, and Reviewing Control, being new, up-to-date features most web sites need these days. And the Chart, Straw Poll and Search Engine examples show new takes on old standards. Many of the examples deal with pattern-based programming, which is helpful.
The only two major detractions I think the book exhibits are the tight-knit binding to Visual Basic .NET for code examples and marriage to Visual Studio .NET. Still, it's well worth it.
ll in all, this is a great read that even experience ASP.NET devs should go through.