Pro ASP.NET Web Forms Techniques, Second Edition (Paperback)

by Alex Homer (Author), Apress (Author)
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Product Description
<p>You will discover the possibilities for developing user interfaces driven by ASP.NET. Author Alex Homer explores techniques and approaches to create attractive, full-featured, and easy-to-use websites and web pages. Further, these web pages will be interactive where appropriate, loosely based on real-world scenarios, and able to fulfill predefined requirements. <p>

This book provides what other books often skimp on: Homer concentrates on site requirement analysis, and design. Then he supports this by discussing site planning and mapping. This well-organized book prevents you from developing your site in a haphazard, unpredictable manner&emdash;which makes site development and maintenance so much more difficult! Even the most simplistic starting plan can reduce development and maintenance time, and help you dodge the frustrations resulting from the "no plan" approach.

About the Author
Alex Homer is a computer geek and web developer with a passion for ASP.NET. Although he has to spend some time doing real work (a bit of consultancy and training, and the occasional conference session), most of his days are absorbed in playing with the latest Microsoft web technology and then writing about it. Living in the picturesque wilderness of the Derbyshire Dales in England, he’s well away from the demands of the real world&emdash;with only an Internet connection to maintain some distant representation of normality. But, hey, what else could you want from life? You can contact Alex through his own software company, Stonebroom Limited, at [e-mail].

Product Details

• Paperback: 580 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 2nd edition (December 8, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590593170
• ISBN-13: 978-1590593172
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,082,065 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding value for the intermediate designer, March 15, 2005

By	Fitzy "A book is like a garden carried in the... (Arizona) - See all my reviews

If you are in the market for a book that clearly, concisely, and, oft-times, humorously describes the sometimes daunting task of developing ASP.NET-based websites - your search may be over.

Mr. Homer has crafted a book, that by no means covers all of the bases, but provides the reader with a wealth of useful, and more importantly, USABLE information. If you're looking for esoteric discussions of the variegated server controls, "best practices" for web designers, how to best tune an application's performance, et al - you would behoove both yourself, and the author by looking elsewhere.

This is a "down-and-dirty," "real-world" application development book. If you want to know how to build a web-based application, aren't afraid to get your hands dirty, and are at least conversant with the technologies covered, this is the book for you. Mr. Homer's writing style is conversational, and seldom does he "talk over one's head," or make assumptions about the reader's level of expertise as sometimes tends to be the case with technical, and help-book writers.

In summary, Mr. Homer has written an excellent guidebook to the world of ASP.NET web design. Each chapter builds on the previous one, and at the end of the book, you have a working model of a well thought out website. One area I would recommend that Mr. Homer rethink is in his decision to create two separate sites for cookieless and cookie-enabled navigation, but ultimately, that is a matter for the reader to decide.

I would highly recommend Mr. Homer's "Pro ASP.NET Web Form Techniques" for any beginner to intermediate level ASP.NET programmer.

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5.0 out of 5 stars High Quality and Clearly Explained, June 2, 2004

By	Tom Bernsen (MA, USA) - See all my reviews

Mr. Homer has produced that rarity in a serious programming book, quality with clarity. The examples individually and as a whole are all very well done, and any ASP.NET programmer from intermediate level up will find something useful in here. One other note, I had a specific question and e-mailed Mr. Homer, and his response was quick, cordial, and solved my problem on the first try.....many software companies should do so well.

The complete application presented is easy to understand, but at the same time filled with features that display information in a visually superb manner. I have learned a lot from this book, and refer to it frequently.

Yes, it's on the high-end price wise, but I feel every penny was well spent. You won't go wrong with this one.