Beginning Web Development, Silverlight and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in .NET) [Paperback]

Laurence Moroney (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590599594 | ISBN-13: 978-1590599594 | Publication Date: March 7, 2008 | Edition: 1

There has been a huge surge in interest in ‘Web 2.0’ technologies over the last couple of years. Microsoft’s contribution to this area has been the ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight technologies, coupled to a supporting framework of ancillary tools.

This book aims to be a no nonsense introduction to these technologies for the rapidly growing number of people who are realizing that they need Microsoft-based‘Web 2.0’ skills on their CV. It gives people a grounding in the core concepts of the technologies and shows how they can be used together to produce the results that people need.

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About the Author

Laurence Moroney is a Silverlight Evangelist working for Microsoft in Seattle. He has written several books about web development including Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005, Foundations of Atlas and Foundations of ASP.NET AJAX.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (March 7, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590599594
• ISBN-13: 978-1590599594
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #420,414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A nice introduction to recent Microsoft Web technologies, May 11, 2008

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This review is from: Beginning Web Development, Silverlight and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in .NET) (Paperback)

This book is a good start for anyone who wants a quick overview of web technologies as offered by Microsoft. Roughly one-third of the book is dedicated to what would nowadays be called "traditional" web technologies based on ASP.NET. It covers a lot of areas (Web forms, ADO.NET, Web Services, deployment), but never dives very deep. The second part focuses on the Next Generation technologies for Web Development and provides an introduction to WCF, WPF, WWF, Cardspace, Ajax, APS.NET AJAX and Silverlight. Unfortunately, it only addresses Silverlight 1.0 and some interesting new developments such as LINQ and project Astoria are left out completely.

I noticed quite some errors in the code examples in the book (especially in the first part), which I think should have been picked up by the reviewer.

All in all, an interesting read that will certainly make the user want to visit Amazon for some more in-depth books on one or more of the many topics they've just become acquainted with.