Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Step By Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) [Paperback]

George Shepherd (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2, 2005 | Series: Step by Step (Microsoft)

Teach yourself the fundamentals of ASP.NET 2.0—one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the guidance you need to start creating components and working applications for the Web!

Discover how to:

• Work in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 development environment
• Add standard, built-in controls, custom controls, and Web Parts to any page
• Use Master pages, themes, and skins to build a consistently styled user interface
• Manage access to your application
• Enable personalization capabilities
• Build custom handlers
• Use caching to help improve application performance
• Trace and debug applications
• Configure and manage session state
• Create and use Web services
• Compile and deploy applications

CD features:

• Microsoft Visual C# code samples

PLUS—Get Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 code samples on the Web

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From the Publisher

Key Book Benefits:
- Provides step-by-step guidance on how to use ASP.NET 2.0 with Visual Studio 2005 to create Web applications and services.
- Features easy-to-follow, logically planned lessons, with necessary data sets and additional code samples on the CD.
- STEP BY STEP is ideal for anyone with a fundamental understanding of computer programming.

About the Author

George Shepherd is an expert on the Microsoft .NET Framework and develops some of the industry's leading third-party .NET-based tools. He is the coauthor of several popular programming books, an instructor for DevelopMentor, a speaker at industry conferences, and has served as a contributing editor for MSDN® Magazine. He's been programming with Windows since version 2.0, in the 1980s.

Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (November 2, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8120329112
• ISBN-13: 978-0735622012
• ASIN: 0735622019
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,146,613 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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41 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not done very well, November 28, 2005

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ender (Lansing, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Step By Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)

I'm completely new at ASP.NET let alone ASP.NET 2.0, so I picked this book up instead of the Introducing ASP.NET 2.0 book by MS Press. I found this book to be poorly done.

The first 5 chapters, I feel, are WAY over the head of anyone starting to work with ASP.NET. Compostie and Render controls in the first 5 chapters? Hello, how about starting with the validation controls or something. The later chapters deal some with TreeView, MasterPages and Skins, stuff I felt should have been somewhere in the first chapters.

I would not recommend this book at all. It is also only in C# code, you have to download the VB examples, but not VB text.

58 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is USELESS..., November 16, 2005

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B. Hayat (FL, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Step By Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)

Don't waste your money and time on this book.
I can't believe someone actually allowed this book to be published as "Step By Step". It seems the intention of writing this book was just to get something out or the author has no idea how to write a "Step By Step" book.

The first three chapters are basically about the history of Web development and how ASP.Net is better. Then suddenly, in chapter four, he jumps into "Custom Rendered Controls". With a few short descriptions, he closes the chapter and the frustration begins. You begin to think, what is this chapter has anything to do with a "Step By Step" and do a project. Next he gets into "Composite Controls". He covers it in a hurry and it's to the next chapter. A very short overview of Validation, Treeview and MultiView.

You keep reading and thinking that I'm eventally going to get something going to finish a project. But you'll be building frustration than an ASP project.

This is by far the worst book I have ever read!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Step-By-Step, January 13, 2006

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David C. Veeneman (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Step By Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)

This book is not a good learning resource for ASP.NET. I had expected a step-by-step book to begin by showing how to create a simple project, then progress to the cool features of ASP.NET and how to use them. Instead, this book starts with five chapters on web server architecture. That says about all that needs to be said about this book.

This is my second bad experience in a row with a Step-By-Step book. MS Press used to have a great series in these books; but if recent experience is any indication, the series has taken a big fall.