ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated, Addison-Wesley
Microsoft .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Visual C# (CSharp, C Sharp, C-Sharp) Developer Training, Visual Studio
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The authors got their first peek at Active Sever Pages (ASP) in 1996—and they were hooked. Since then, they have been experimenting, poking, prodding, using, and writing about ASP. Now, ASP.NET 2.0 is here; and, naturally, they have written about it—a thousand pages worth.
But, it is a not a book full of application program interfaces (APIs) or other sorts of technical filler. Rather, it is filled with the information one needs to create fully-featured Web applications and Web sites. The reader learns to use data binding and sources, interactive Web Forms, server controls, and XML to create interactive membership-based, secure, Web portals. Despite the girth of the book, the information presented is detailed yet tightly organized and concise. There is simply a lot of ground to be covered in the rich set of ASP 2.0 technologies.
Microsoft has gone to a lot of effort to create a comprehensive, yet easy-to-use, technology in ASP.NET. As the authors lead the reader through binding, caching, displaying, editing, exposing, filtering, paging, securing, and sorting data—one sees just how successful Microsoft has been in streamlining access to ASP.NET technology.
The writing style is open, direct, and experienced: These fellows have been around the ASP block more than once. The authors had access to the ASP.NET development team to ensure that their information was accurate and timely.
The book is ideal for beginning to intermediate ASP developers. It is, also, suitable for ASP 1.0 developers who need to get caught up with ASP 2.0. The examples are real-world and they actually work. To take full advantage of the wealth of information in the book, the reader should be familiar with C#, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and the Web.
As indicated by the title, the book is lavishly and helpfully illustrated with screen shots. Any source code examples other than ASP are, of course, in the C# language. To run the examples in the book, the reader needs access to either Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Web Developer (VWD) plus either SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server Express Edition. Visual Studio 2005 includes VWD and SQL Server Express.
Bottom line
ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated is an authoritative, informative, and concise introduction to ASP.NET technologies.
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- .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security, Addison-Wesley
- .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, v.1, Addison-Wesley
- .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, v.2, Addison-Wesley
- .NET Internationalization, Addison-Wesley
- .NET Web Services, Addison-Wesley
- ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated, Addison-Wesley
- C# Programming Language, The, 2nd Ed., Addison-Wesley
- Common Language Infrastructure Annotated Standard, Addison-Wesley
- Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0, Addison-Wesley
- Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework, Addison-Wesley
- eXtreme .NET, Addison-Wesley
- Framework Design Guidelines, Addison-Wesley
- Visual Studio Tools for Office, Addison-Wesley
- Windows Forms 2.0 Programming, Addison-Wesley
From the back cover
Developers moving to ASP.NET 2.0, the breakthrough Web development environment from Microsoft, will want to learn how to take full advantage of the new features that make this the most productive and powerful Web development environment ever. ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated teaches developers exactly what they need to know to create exciting Web sites and applications quickly and easily using ASP.NET 2.0.
Renowned authors, developers, and conference speakers Alex Homer and Dave Sussman have written a concise, detailed exploration of the “must learn” features of ASP.NET 2.0. The book’s many original examples, fully updated for the release version of ASP.NET 2.0, are all downloadable from the authors’ Web site, and many can be run live online.
The authors provide detailed coverage of
- Connecting to databases, using data source and data display controls with SQL statements and stored procedures; creating business layers and data layers with custom classes and Typed DataSets; and providing declarative access to business and data layers
- Techniques for improving the scalability and responsiveness of data-driven sites, including caching techniques for data and ASP.NET pages
- Binding to XML, transforming XML, updating XML data, and managing XML data stored in SQL Server 2005
- Building interactive Web forms with a wide variety of ASP.NET controls
- Understanding and using the core functionality of the Page class and key .NET Framework classes
- Providing a consistent sitewide look and feel using Master Pages
- Six ways to provide site navigation, including the new navigation controls
- Securing sites and implementing membership and roles
- Using profiles, personalization, and themes in your applications
- Building user-customizable Web portals with Web Parts
- Supporting multiple browsers, disabled users, mobile devices, and international users
- Creating and consuming Web services
Developers will come away from this book knowing exactly how to build secure, efficient, visually consistent, easy-to-navigate, data-driven Web sites with ASP.NET 2.0.
About the author(s)
Alex Homer is a director of Stonebroom, Ltd., a software development, consulting, and training organization. He was formerly lead technical author and reviewer for Wrox, specializing in Microsoft Web and database technologies.
Dave Sussman speaks frequently at Microsoft development conferences and has been writing about ASP since its earliest release. Together with Alex Homer, he has written many books on Microsoft technologies, including ASP.NET v. 2.0--The Beta Version (Addison-Wesley, 2005). He and Alex are the only two Microsoft "Software Legends" from the UK.
