The Microsoft Expression Web Developer's Guide to ASP.NET 3.5: Learn to create ASP.NET applications using Visual Web Developer 2008 (Paperback)

by Jim Cheshire (Author)
Key Phrases: Web Service, Master Page, User Control

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

“This book is a great reference for web designers new to ASP.NET who are looking to jump start their development with

Visual Web Developer 2008.”

Mikhail Arkhipov

Principal Development Manager – Web Development Tools

Microsoft Corporation

 

Expression Web introduced ASP.NET to a new group of web developers. This book is designed to help you start using ASP.NET right away to add powerful new features to your website. Don’t worry, you won’t have to learn a lot of programming; instead, you’ll create an ASP.NET application from start to finish using Visual Web Developer 2008, while writing only a very small amount of actual programming code.

 

DETAILED INFORMATION ON HOW TO…

     •    Create and work with websites in Visual Web Developer 2008

     •    Use the different compilation and code models in ASP.NET

     •    Configure ASP.NET security and other settings

     •    Use ASP.NET master pages and user controls

     •    Take advantage of ASP.NET membership features for a password-protected website

     •    Use form validation in ASP.NET

     •    Use CSS, skins, and themes

     •    Access, edit, and add data to a database using ASP.NET

     •    Send email using ASP.NET

     •    Use Ajax and ASP.NET Web services

     •    Debug and troubleshoot ASP.NET

          . . . and much more!

 

About the Author

Jim Cheshire is the author of several books, including the recently released Special Edition Using Expression Web. He has been working with ASP.NET since before its release. Jim works as an escalation engineer on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft, where he specializes in debugging and resolving some of the toughest problems Microsoft sees from users of ASP.NET.

 

Jim also operates the Jimco Software (www.jimcosoftware.com) and Jimco Books (www.jimcobooks.com) websites, where he distributes software and information for users of both Microsoft FrontPage and Microsoft Expression Web. He has been heavily involved in the web design community for more than a decade and is widely considered an expert in Microsoft’s web design technologies.

 

You can contact Jim via either of his websites.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 504 pages
• Publisher: Que; 1 edition (October 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789736659
• ISBN-13: 978-0789736659
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #65,671 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for people who are sick of trying to learn Web Page development/design from a book!, January 29, 2008

By	C. Fallon - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I must have purchased 10 books on how to develope a website from the ground up. Within the first 5 chapters, without fail, something integral to the entire website that they take for granted working, wouldn't work for me, and after a week or two of trying to fix the issue, I would normally give up. I repeated this process for about the past 6 months.

Some background on me, I'm 28, I have a BS in computer science, but generally learned nothing in college, of business value anyway. I am lightly familiar with coding/designing, if given enough time I could read the code and tell you about what most things do in C++ or VB, (And their .net equivalents), but ask me to program something, and I wouldn't even know where to start. This is why I am heavily dependant on any programing examples in a book working...

This book is definitely more a designers guide to building a website, but by that, I mean it shows you how to create a website from the ground up, and every short cut possible where you can have Visual Web Developer (VWD) button, or option do the work of coding. This is like a god send for people like me, that want to learn coding, but not as badly as we want to learn how to create .NET websites. I didn't get stuck for more than a few minutes anywhere.

There are no "stories from the trenches" that many books put in just to fill in space and bore you inbetween what you actually want to know. This book is VERY concisely written telling you what you need to know. This book does not go into great depth in any great part, it briefly touches on just about everything you could need to run your own website though and makes recommendations for either websites or books to purchase to get additional information.

In conclusion, this book is great for beginners, and I would, and have recommended it to everyone I know who, similar to me, wants to create a professional looking website, that doesn't have the programing skills to make it happen. I'd imagine though, if you are above beginner level, this book would not be for you.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VWD 2008 Express, November 30, 2007

By	Web Designer Hobbyist "Don" (Tarpon Springs, FL) - See all my reviews

The title of this book is a little misleading. It deals with Visual Web Developer Express Edition 2008 and does an excellent job of addressing the new features in the 2008 release as well as a valid tool for someone just starting with Visual Web Developer. It takes you through the development of a sample ASP.NET website using Access databases along with user security. It is an excellent reference as well as a tutorial approach for a begginner to intermediate web site creation.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great tool for ASP.NET designers, November 19, 2007

By	.NET Code Monkey - See all my reviews

This book does a superb job furthering one of Microsoft's intentions of the Expression suite: to bridge the gap between designers and developers.

Even though it is targeted toward designers new to ASP.NET, it is actually quite comprehensive in terms of development. I appreciate how a strong foundation was laid right from the start discussing ASP.NET architecture (including the often misunderstood topics of page lifecycle and state management) in plain, concise terms.

What really excites me about this book is that it does not shy away from the administrative side of ASP.NET--configuring membership, validation, security, etc. Far too many designers and developers alike give blank stares when asked how their site is configured.

I will definitely recommend this book to designers on our team, as it will help our upcoming ASP.NET 3.5 projects go much more smoothly.

Now...if I could just find a book of this caliber that works conversely, helping developers get into the mindset of a designer...