Wrox's ASP.NET 2.0 Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit [Paperback]

David Sussman (Author), Alex Homer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 18, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0764588079 | ISBN-13: 978-0764588075

• This Starter Kit serves as an entry-level introduction centered around prebuilt projects that developers can easily deploy and customize for their own sites
• Explains how to build good basic Web sites, including design and architecture, for users who plan to build more complex sites in the future
• Details the key site features that beginners like to implement, including catalogs, shopping carts, images, and secure site sections
• The authors use very little code, but where coding is needed, they feature the simple Visual Basic language
• The CD-ROM includes Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition

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From the Back Cover

Whether you are new to web development or switching to ASP.NET from another web language, you can use Visual Web Developer to build amazing web sites using drop-and-drag techniques and a wide range of developer-friendly tools and controls. Written by two of the world's best known ASP.NET authors, this book shows you how to create powerful and interactive web applications that are also easy and inexpensive to create using the Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition software included on the book's CD-ROM.

The authors use a step-by-step tutorial to focus on getting your site up and working quickly, without wasting time discussing code or theory. They use a simple, real-world example to show you how to build high quality and reliable web sites. This experience provides a convenient stepping-stone as you go on to build even more complex sites in the future.

What you will lean from this book

• How to install Visual Web Developer
• Tips onimplementing the database
• Design tips for building dependable and accessible sites
• How to display and edit data
• Ways to publish your finished site
• How to build a shopping cart

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone new to web programming or those moving from other web technologies such as ASP or PHP. This book will also be helpful for Windows developers who have never built web sites.

This Wrox Stater Kit gives you a CD-ROM including Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, and the MSDN 2005 Express Edition library - all the tools you need to get started programming right away - as well as a book featuring structured tutorials that walk you through all the techniques you need to know.

About the Author

David Sussman is a hacker in the traditional sense of the word. That’s someone who likes playing with code and working out how things work, which is why he spends much of his life working with beta software. Luckily, this coincides with writing about new technologies, giving him an output for his poor English and grammar. He lives in a small village in the Oxfordshire countryside. Like many programmers everywhere, he has an expensive hi-fi, a big TV, and no life. You can contact Dave through his own company, ipona Limited: [e-mail].

Alex Homer is a computer geek and Web developer with a passion for ASP.NET. Although he has to spend some time doing real work (a bit of consultancy and training, and the occasional conference session), most of his days are absorbed in playing with the latest Microsoft Web technology and then writing about it. Living in the picturesque wilderness of the Derbyshire Dales in England, he is well away from the demands of the real world—with only an Internet connection to maintain some distant representation of normality. But, hey, what else could you want from life? You can contact Alex through his own software company, Stonebroom Limited: [e-mail].

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (January 18, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764588079
• ISBN-13: 978-0764588075
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.6 x 9.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,636,460 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Errors, Errors, Errors..., May 1, 2006

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Milan M. Blake "Knight's" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wrox's ASP.NET 2.0 Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit (Paperback)

This book has too many errors. There is nothing more frustrating than to follow the steps outlined and find out it does not work because they did not Q&A the examples.

ie. They ask you to select a field from the table, but the field does not exist. The stored procedure does not include it.

You would have to know how to write SQL to correct this.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Step by Step Guide to your first ASP.NET 2.0 website, February 4, 2006

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Adnan Masood (Monrovia, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wrox's ASP.NET 2.0 Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit (Paperback)

Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition is a free IDE provided by Microsoft for beginners interested in learning Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 web development. This book, Wrox's ASP.NET 2.0 Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit is an excellent resource for this software and provides a firm foundation for a jump start. Both David Sussman and Alex Homer are authors known for their work for beginners. They've kept the tutorial spirit going in this book and provided some excellent walk through and build-from-scratch examples. Beside ASP.NET 2.0 and VWD, this book also discusses and elaborate on general application design fundamentals, for instance database design, normalization etc, and hence ideal for candidates with not much formal knowledge of subject but want to be exposed to the tools of the trade.

If interested, you can read my detailed review of this book in the ASP.NET pro magazine.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not helpful, April 5, 2006

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Ioann Panoutsopoulos - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wrox's ASP.NET 2.0 Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit (Paperback)

it has an already made site which you study, but it does not go step by step, it just shows pieces of how this was done, and if you want yours to differ a little, you find no help to do so. Totaly annessecery book.