ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook: A Developer's Notebook [Kindle Edition]

Wei-Meng Lee (Author)

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When ASP.NET hit the street a couple of years ago, it was a real eye-opener. Microsoft's tool for creating dynamic, server side web applications introduced Web Forms, a feature with the same rapid drag and drop convenience enjoyed by Visual Basic developers, along with a method for creating XML-based web services. ASP.NET was more than an upgrade of Active Server Pages it was a quantum leap ahead.

Now Microsoft has a new version of ASP.NET as part of its upcoming next generation release of the Visual Studio .NET development platform. ASP.NET 2.0 is already available in beta release, and web developers are anxious to get a good look at it. That's exactly what our new Developer's Notebook allows you to do.

More than just an introduction to ASP.NET 2.0, this practical guide acquaints you with all of the new features through nearly 50 hands-on projects. Each one places emphasis on changes in the new release that can increase productivity, simplify programming tasks, and help you add functionality to your applications. For example, ASP.NET 2.0 includes master pages, themes, and skins so you can build applications with a consistent page layout and design. Other changes allow for the automatic creation of web pages for use on mobile devices, while wizards and controls allow you to perform frequent tasks (like data access) without having to write a single line of code.

ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook also includes suggestions for further experimentation, links to on-line documentation, and practical notes and warnings from the author regarding changes to the new version.

The new Developer's Notebooks series from O'Reilly offers an in-depth first look at important new tools for software developers. Emphasizing example over explanation and practice over theory, they focus on learning by doing you'll get the goods straight from the masters, in an informal and code-intensive style. If you want to get up to speed on ASP.NET 2.0 before its official release, this all lab, no lecture book will get you there.

About the Author

Wei-Meng Lee (Microsoft .NET MVP) is a technologist and co-founder of Active Developer, a technology company specializing in hands-on training on the latest technologies. He is an established developer and trainer specializing in .NET and wireless technologies. Wei-Meng speaks regularly at international conferences and has authored and co-authored numerous books on .NET, XML and wireless technologies, including .Net Mobile Web Developer's Guide, C#.Net Web Developer's Guide with CDROM, VB.NET Developer's Guide with CDROM, and Webmaster's Guide to the Wireless Internet (Syngress). He writes extensively for the O'Reilly Network on topics ranging from .NET to Mac OS X. He is also the author of Windows XP Unwired (O'Reilly & Associates) and is currently working on Programming the .NET Compact Framework, also from O'Reilly.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 4006 KB
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (February 9, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0026OR2OK
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #563,641 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Overview of What ASP.NET 2.0 Offers, August 11, 2005

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Daniel McKinnon "Dan" (Tewksbury, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook (Paperback)

ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook for any programmer that wants to jump right in and discover what v2.0 has to offer. For anyone that is looking for an ASP.NET 2.0 reference book, this isn't what you are looking for. If you want a guide that will give you and overview of all the neat new features of what MSFT's newest set of toys gives you, this is a great guide.

The Author breaks the book into the major new parts of what ASP.NET brings to the table, highlighting the following topics:

- Improved posting to self pages and other pages

- Improved validation routines in 2.0

- Creating image maps with ADO.NET

- Creating master pages for a web site (very cool)

- Using TreeView controls on your page

- Adding drop-down menus to your site

- Using Web Parts to separate content on your pages

- Learning how GridView replaces DataGrid for viewing data

- Improved data caching with 2.0

- XML communication all throughout ASP.NET (how-to)

- Improved security in 2.0

These are just the major points that I have gotten out of this book, and it's quite a bit. Again, if you are looking at this book as a reference, this isn't what you are looking for. There are examples of all these topics, but the Author expects that you have some ASP and/or ASP.NET experience if you are using this book. This book is meant to be a "notebook" where it quickly gets to the heart of the matter, instead of dragging on and on and that's exactly what the user does.

For existing ASP.NET developers or any web developer who wants to learn why .NET is the present and future of web development, this is a great guide to learning all the new tricks that the wizards at Microsoft have come up with. I recommend this book to all web developers and I think you will find it extremely useful in your web careers.

***** RECOMMENDED

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Developres - By Developers... Finally, December 27, 2005

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Jason Buys "CodeScene.com" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook (Paperback)

ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook, part of a new series by O'Reilly Media, takes a radically different approach to code-oriented textbooks, and it's about time. O'Reilly has done something wonderful in realizing that most developers simply don't have the time to read through 1200-page books trying to learn every little detail about a subject.

Instead, we usually only have a matter of days (hours if we're really unlucky) to learn enough about the language we're using to make the project work. That's what this book is about... getting the job done. This books aims to be the brain of a great developer poured onto paper. You won't find useless chapters on theory or elaborate references of class hierarchies and object properties. What you will find is page after page of hands-on code examples that you can actually use.

Topics covered include:

* Master pages, themes, and skins for easily creating a consistent look throughout your site

* The Web Parts Framework (WPF) for building portal applications

* Security and membership controls for managing user authentication

* Data access via new data source controls and the GridView component

* Performance tuning your site by pre-compiling and fragment caching.

ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook is a book for developer's who would rather learn by coding instead of just reading. This is the perfect book for developers familiar with ASP.NET 1.x who're looking to make the jump to ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 without wasting every second of their free time. It throws you into the code immediately, allowing you to learn by example. The code samples are all easy to follow and you can re-use them in your own applications. This is a must-have for anyone trying to learn ASP.NET 2.0.

From http://www.codescene.com/2005/12/book_review_aspnet_20_a_develo.php

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars just what the doctor ordered, September 9, 2005

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Douggy Fresh (London,UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook (Paperback)

just bought this book today and motoring thru it.

It is so orentated to a developer, I have been using VB since version3 and have bitten the bullet so I can do more, faster and better with net2.0

Things I liked about the book is that it is thin and its core stuff to 'just make it work'.

I can quickly be productive, build on my confidence and know where to learn more 'as and when I need it' and not get saturated with needless feature details. The book does seem to be all lab and is very suitable for those practical/kinesethic types that learn by getting their hands dirty and playing with something - it might not suit people who need to know everything before they start. Also the print style is very easy on the eyes, looks like someone has made margine notes in it and ample space for your own notes to. Wish this was the first book on ASP.NET2 I had bought.