Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005 [Paperback]

Matthew MacDonald (Author), Mario Szpuszta (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590594967 | ISBN-13: 978-1590594964 | Publication Date: June 2005 | Edition: 1

ASP.NET 2.0 is the latest version of Microsoft’s current ASP.NET 1.1 technology. ASP.NET 1.1 is fast becoming the accepted technology standard for creating dynamic web pages on the Windows platform, and is now used across the board from start-ups to blue-chip multi-national corporations. ASP.NET 2.0 is building on this solid foundation and adding new improvements. The new technology will be faster to code, offer a more powerful set of tools (i.e. MasterPages and Generics), and run faster when deployed, so that customers enjoy a significantly better user experience.

Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# follows the well-regarded Pro ASP.NET 1.1, rooted in the same best-practices and pragmatic style. Matthew MacDonald explains how ASP.NET 2.0 works for the professional programmer – covering both new innovations and the features carried over from the previous version. And while new features are important, MacDonald stresses the importance of the technology as a cohesive whole. His broad-based approach shows how all of the features inter-relate. This gives readers the solid understanding they need to code real applications.

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About the Author

Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he's the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET Distributed Applications. In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1100 pages
• Publisher: A-Press; 1 edition (June 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590594967
• ISBN-13: 978-1590594964
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.1 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #982,658 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The First Pure ASP.NET 2.0 Title, October 2, 2005

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Cameron Scholtz (Phoenix, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005 (Paperback)

This is problably the first 2.0-specific book to hit store shelves. I'm currently building with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. AFAIK this build has the final major changes. The book seems to be written for the final VS release. In ohter words, I have not found any outdated examples yet in my reading.

I got this book last week and I'm very pleased with it. I jumped ahead straight to the Membership and Profile sections. There are *several* chapters on this! I'm very impressed so far with their teaching abilities and I appreciate the fact that they give full examples. First the authors cover how to use ASP.NET 2.0's shrinkwrapped solution. Then they give detailed information on how to implement your own custom providers for Memebership and Roles. This is fantastic because at the time of this review, I had not found any complete examples on how to do this.

So far this book hs a great reference and help to me. It's over 1,000 pages but nothing of what I've seen appears to be "fluff". Nice job! I would definitely recommend this ASP.NET/C# programmers. I think beginners can follow it and advanced users will like the solid 2.0 coverage.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book for experienced ASP.NET programmers, December 31, 2005

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Carl E. Olsen (Ankeny, IA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005 (Paperback)

I'm reading this one cover-to-cover. I'm only on chapter 9, but I have to respond to the reviewer who found chapter 3 on web forms to be incomplete. ASP.NET 2 is not a complete change from ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 1.0, but rather a few changes and a lot of enhancements. As someone who's been using ASP.NET for a couple of years, I'm finding this book extremely helpful, not only as an introduction to ASP.NET 2.0, but also as a review of ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 1.0. I'm not sure what I would think of the book if I didn't already have some experience, but it seems like a complete review of ASP.NET to me. The authors have done an outstanding job. Every time a question is generated in my mind, the author answers it in the next paragraph. This book is thorough. I'm even updating some of my 1.1 code while I'm reading it. I would highly recommend this book if you already have some experience with ASP.NET 1.1 or ASP.NET 1.0.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Book for Those Wishing to Work With ASP.NET and C#, August 28, 2006

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Donald Bickel "MNMedia" (Tampa, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005 (Paperback)

I have been a professional web developer for the past 8 years working for a boutique web development shop. While we have done a decent bit of classic ASP over the years, prior to 2006 we have not jumped aggressively on the .NET bandwagon. The advent of ASP.NET 2.0 and the growing din of client requests has changed that and we are now focusing on .NET development.

Prior to reading this book, I read through the Wrox Visual C# 2005 book to gain a solid footing in C# and .NET in general. I must say that although this book's title begins with "Pro" I found it to be very accessible to a relative newbie. Familiarity with the aforementioned C#, web development and object-oriented principles in general seemed to be adequate as a primer for the lessons in this book.

The authors' ability to convey their obviously strong knowledge of the subject was outstanding - the language was not aimed too high nor was it unnecessarily full of jargon. I found the coverage of database access, rich data controls, session state and caching to be particularly valuable. Another area of great value to ASP.NET 1.1 developers is up-front coverage in each chapter to let them know what has changed in 2.0 from the 1.1 coding model. The breadth of coverage of this book is impressive - I cannot think of a significant topic that was not covered in some way. The authors seemed to focus at length on the most commonly used features of the language - they definitely covered the areas that I know we will be using.

One quibble that I have with the book were the occasional typos that made it past the tech checkers/editors. For example, the authors would introduce a new class name or method in a code block and then refer to that same class/method later in the chapter or in later example code with a slightly different name. While I have become accustomed to this in many tech books, I didn't expect to see as many code errors as I saw in a book of this quality.

Overall, I rate this book very highly and encourage any web developer that is interested in being productive with ASP.NET 2005 to get this book.