ASP.NET 2.0: Your visual blueprint for developing Web applications [Paperback]

Chris Love (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470010010 | ISBN-13: 978-0470010013 | Publication Date: December 17, 2007 | Edition: 1

Only Visual Blueprint takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics, and this guide demonstrates over 150 key ASP.NET 2.0 techniques with step-by-step screen shots. You’ll see how to add a page to a Web site, write and read user cookies, collect user input with checkboxes, create an image map, display data in the GridView, reset user passwords, format the CreateUser Wizard, use nesting master pages, handle errors, build a Web service, and put together a terrific site.

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From the Back Cover

ASP.NET 2.0

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 150 key ASP.NET 2.0 techniques, including:

• Adding a page to a Web site

• Writing and reading user cookies

• Collecting user input with checkboxes

• Creating an image map

• Displaying data in the GridView

• Resetting user passwords

• Formatting the CreateUser Wizard

• Using nesting master pages

• Handling errors on your pages

• Building a Web service

Extra Apply It

• "Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips

• High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task

• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step

• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

About the Author

Chris Love has over 14 years of experience in software design, development and architecture. He has been the principal developer for more than 250 small and medium ASP and ASP.NET Web sites over the past 7 years. These projects have exposed Chris to a wide range of Microsoft-related technologies to solve real business problems for his clients. He has learned to look objectively at his clients’ business and offer pragmatic suggestions to make them more efficient and profitable.
Other responsibilities have included managing and maintaining production Windows servers for Web, database, and e-mail. He has learned to manage performance, security, and spam safeguards to keep his customers operating 24/7.
Chris’ clients have also relied on his experience and expertise to help develop online marketing strategies, including search engine optimization and pay-per-click campaigns. Chris has begun to leverage this experience along with his ASP.NET expertise to build his own Web properties and practice his technical and marketing theories firsthand.
Chris has been active in a leadership role in the local user’s group, TRINUG, for more than 5 years. He served as the Vice President for the first 3 years and is currently on the advisory board. He has also led monthly a Special Interest Group (SIG) where he covered practical ASP.NET programming techniques, including how to use httpHandlers, httpModules, extending the .NET framework and using third party tools. He frequently presents and organizes Code Camps around the country. He is a Full Mentor with Solid Quality Mentors in the Development Practice.

Product Details

• Paperback: 339 pages
• Publisher: Visual; 1 edition (December 17, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470010010
• ISBN-13: 978-0470010013
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.5 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,161,241 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly Edited With Unreadably Small Code, March 10, 2010

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Brandon "Brandon" (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ASP.NET 2.0: Your visual blueprint for developing Web applications (Paperback)

I bought this book to teach myself .NET and ASP. The whole book is nothing but a sequence of exercises, which is an interesting and possibly effective approach. 99.9% of the code you are given to enter in is presented in the images.

From the very first exercise, I have found frequent careless and typographical errors, such as menu sequences that don't exist or instructions that leave out a critical step. Furthermore, the code you are to enter is very small and hard to read. It is only given within images, and it varies from hard to read to virtually impossible to read. I get the impression that the author knows the subject well, but this book is written as though he was given impossible deadlines to meet, and the publisher doesn't seem to have proofread the manuscript, because it contains continuous errors. I think that the author is capable of producing a better product, and I wouldn't hesitate to look at another book of his by a different publisher, but I must regretfully recommend that people seeking to learn this subject avoid this particular book.