Beginning Visual Web Programming in C# [Paperback]

Daniel Cazzulino (Author), Victor Garcia Aprea (Author), James Greenwood (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590593618 | ISBN-13: 978-1590593615 | Publication Date: September 30, 2004 | Edition: 1

With this book you'll learn the fundamentals of the web environment and how Visual Studio .NET makes it accessible to C# programmers. You'll build a working website that demonstrates all the elements of a C# web application. We'll take a step-by-step approach to each example as we explore the essential technologies and how VS.NET helps us to integrate them into a highly interactive, attractive web application.

What you will learn in this book:

- How to create dynamic web pages with ASP.NET web forms and web server controls

- How to display and manipulate data using ADO.NET and Visual Studio .NET components

- How to persist state in different ways, within the "stateless" web environment

- How to create XML files and XML schema, and how to use them for data transfer

- How to integrate your web applications with others, through web services

- How to make your application more secure, via the security features in ASP.NET and IIS

- How to eliminate bugs and unexpected failures, through effective debugging and exception-handling techniques

- How to improve the performance of your application and prepare it for release

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Daniel Cazzulino (a.k.a. kzu) lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is a senior architect, developer, and cofounder of Clarius Consulting S.A.. He has coauthored several books on web development and server controls with ASP.NET, written and reviewed many articles for ASP Today and C# Today, and currently enjoys sharing his .NET and XML experiences through his blog, kzu:dotnet.

Daniel works closely with Microsoft in key projects from the Patterns and Practices group. Microsoft rewarded him as "Most Valuable Professional" (MVP) on XML Technologies for his contributions to the community, mainly through the XML-savvy open source project, NMatrix, that he cofounded. He also started the promising MVP.XML project with fellow XML MVP experts worldwide. Surprisingly enough, Daniel is a lawyer who found a more exciting career as a developer and .NET/XML geek.

Victor Garcia Aprea is founder of Clarius Consulting, which provides training, consulting and development in Microsoft .NET technologies. Aprea has been involved with ASP.NET since its beginning, and he was named Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional" for ASP.NET in 2002 and 2003. Aprea has written books and articles and reviewed for numerous publishers. He is a regular speaker at Microsoft Argentina (MSDN DevDays, Ask the Experts panel, etc.) and .NET local user groups. Please read Victor's own blogs, or check out his Apress blogs. Or you may email him at [e-mail].

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Product Details

• Paperback: 664 pages
• Publisher: A-Press; 1 edition (September 30, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590593618
• ISBN-13: 978-1590593615
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,440,313 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a complete web development environment, December 26, 2004

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W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning Visual Web Programming in C# (Paperback)

The book shows how to write a C# web application on a server running .NET. Perhaps the most succinct description of the book is its cohesiveness. It describes using two crucial packages, ASP.NET and ADO.NET. ASP.NET essentially handles the client-server interaction, by making dynamic HTML pages and handling the user's input. While ADO.NET controls the interaction between the application server and the database.

As you go through the book, if you keep this simple demarcation in mind, then it helps your understanding of the many lower level details in each chapter.

It is clear from the book that Microsoft is pushing hard to have the entire web development process done on their .NET machines, by offering a tight and consistent tool integration. Gives the open source movement a serious challenge.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice intro into.NET Web Programming, February 26, 2007

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James Gruszynski "db man" (Margate, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning Visual Web Programming in C# (Paperback)

I had a great deal of C# Windows forms programming experience. What I needed was a book to help me leverage that into Web programming. This book fit the bill.

You will not learn C# in this book (it assumes you already know the language); but it will get you quickly into building Web applications.

The examples are clear, well organized, and most importantly run properly when typed in correctly! The examples also have one important feature I prefer, which is a lack of over embellishment. They show only the code needed to complete the given task, not additional bells and whistles that can confuse the point of the example.

After completing the book, I found it easy to adapt the examples for use in building my own web site.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gives you the whole picture..., June 14, 2005

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R. Castagna "ASP.NET Developer" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning Visual Web Programming in C# (Paperback)

I found this book to be a very good source of overall C# information. It was not an exhaustive resource, nor did it delve in minute detail to all the points, but I have not found a better book to get a complete picture of the web programming world.

The code samples are very easy to follow, and the reader can download the code from the publisher's web site. I chose to input the code samples manually and only had a couple of minor issues along the way.

One example late in the book (Chapter 11 or 12) left the code in a state where it would not execute.

I also had problems with the web service examples but that can most likely be attributed to the proxy/network configuration at my place of employment.

The only other issue I encountered was with the stress testing tools like ACT. I was unable to access the site and still have not been able to determine why. Of course, that's not a failing of the book or the author, just a configuration issue, I'm sure.

If you are looking at starting ASP.NET development, this book is a good, solid read.