ASPxperience Suite for ASP.NET is a comprehensive set of presentation and reporting components that add functionality to ASP.NET driven websites. Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls gives an overview of many of these controls as well as showing you how to use them and what kind of capabilities they contain.
The goal of author Paul Kimmel's book is to give you a solid understanding of how to incorporate these controls into vertical applications so as to fully leverage their power and flexibility and at the same time enhance the look and feel of your application. This book is 672 pages divided into 13 chapters.
Chapter 1, "Programming With ASPxGridView," will show you how this control does three very important things to provide high performance in a grid – it uses the database server, it manages the viewstate, and it uses Ajax internally. You will see how to handle sorting, filtering data, and work with ServerMode to create high powered grids. Chapter 2, "Advanced ASPxGridView Computing," then looks at additional features of the grid control such as templates, pop-up menus, callback, the use of stored procedures, and more.
Chapter 3, "Using the ASPxTreeList, ASPxDataView, and ASPxNewsControl," examines the tree list in bound and unbound modes, the data view which supports SEO settings, and the news control which is an implementation of the data view control. Chapter 4, "Adding SiteMaps, Navigation, and Pop-Up Dialog Boxes," describes how to build navigation into your system, facilitate social networking using a cloud control, building a sitemap, and the use of modal dialogs in ASP.NET
Chapter 5, "Implementing a Menu and Tabbed Controls," takes away much of the tediousness of building menus into your system. Here you will see how to work with standard and pop-up menus as well as create tabbed views. Chapter 6, "Managing Scheduled Items and Using Gauges," looks at creating calendar events for creating schedules as well as building dynamically bound gauges into your system.
Chapter 7, "Using the Data That Makes Sense for Your Solution," now looks at the eXpress Persistent Objects. This is a database agnostic framework that will allow you switch databases without having to recode while handling all of your database updates. Chapter 8, "Implementing Data Solutions with the ASPxPivotGrid," gives you the ability to transform relational data, export data to create crosstab reports, and give users the ability to filter data.
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1 - zia
this book is worth buying