Wrox - Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control and Component Development

Introduction

Welcome to Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control and Component Development. The ASP.NET 2.0 Framework consists of two groups of components. The first group contains server controls, that is, those components that directly or indirectly derive from the ASP.NET Control base class. This group includes
security controls, tabular and hierarchical data source controls such as SqlDataSource and XmlDataSource, Web Parts controls set, data-bound controls, and so on.

The second group contains the rest of the ASP.NET 2.0 components including HTTP modules, HTTP handlers, HTTP handler factories, security components such as RolePrincipal, RoleManagerModule, role providers, MembershipUser and membership providers, data control fields such as BoundField, data source control parameters such as ControlParameter, ISerializable, schema importer extensions, and so on.

This book covers both groups of ASP.NET 2.0 components. In other words, this book shows you how to develop not only server controls, which belong to the first group, but also components that belong to the second group.