Programming Microsoft ASP.NET [Paperback]

Dino Esposito (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 9, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0735619034 | ISBN-13: 978-0735619036 | Edition: 1

Advance your expertise with ASP.NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework—and build dynamic Web solutions that can run on any browser or mobile device. This guide expertly balances coverage of ASP.NET infrastructure with practical, hands-on examples you can modify for your own Web applications and services. As you examine ASP.NET infrastructure—including the HTTP runtime, standard and custom controls, configuration, and security issues—you’ll learn techniques and best practices for building high-performance, effective, and functional solutions. Whether you’re creating a dynamic portal application or a corporate intranet, this must-have reference demonstrates how to use ASP.NET to accelerate your productivity—and shave precious hours off your development time.

Discover how to:

• Access data using ADO.NET
• Master the DataGrid control to display, edit, and page through data
• Program page forms to enable multiple forms and pop-up windows
• Use ASP.NET mobile controls to write one application that can run on multiple devices
• Write statefull session-based Web services
• Reuse common UI elements across applications with Web Forms user controls
• Use inheritance to modify existing ASP.NET controls for your own programs
• Create data-bound and templated custom controls from scratch
• Deliver dynamically generated images to the Web with GDI+
• Learn state management techniques that help optimize scalability
• Get best practices for writing attack-resistant code
• Configure ASP.NET files for deployment and fine-tune application performance
• Configure the HTTP pipeline to serve ASP.NET pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Dino Esposito is a well-known ASP.NET, AJAX, and Microsoft Silverlight® expert who has written or co-written several popular books, including Microsoft ASP.NET and Ajax: Architecting Web Applications and Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4. He is a regular contributor to MSDN® Magazine and speaks at industry events such as DevConnections and Microsoft TechEd.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1198 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (July 9, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735619034
• ISBN-13: 978-0735619036
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,616,213 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dino Esposito is a well-known ASP.NET and ADO.NET expert at Solid Quality Learning, a global provider of advanced education and mentoring for Microsoft technologies. He speaks at industry events, including Win-Dev and Microsoft TechEd, contributes to MSDN Magazine and other publications, and is the author of several Microsoft Press books.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference for Intermediate/Advanced users., August 2, 2003

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Harinath Thummalapalli (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET (Paperback)

This book is the perfect reference for any Intermediate/Advanced ASP.NET programmer. It may not be as helpful if you are a beginner because the coverage is too wide and too deep to keep the interest of a beginner. But it is a must-have as a desk reference when you get past the beginner stage.

We looked at many books on the general subject of .NET and the specific subjects of VB.NET, ASP.NET, and ADO.NET to learn how to successfully create Web Applications that users love. There are a lot of books out there on .NET that are more confusing than helpful. And most books - just touch the basics, don't give detailed explanations, or don't have sample code that works. There are a few exceptions and this book is one of them. It doesn't have any of the above mentioned problems.

What is most impressive about this book is the readability of the material. If you are interested in the details of how something works in ASP.NET, you will find that once you pick up this book and start reading it, it is difficult to put it down. The explanations are clear, concise, yet detailed and the different topics are all very neatly interconnected.

If your primary interest is in finding a book with code to modify for your own project situation, this is NOT the book. There are other excellent books for that purpose. 'ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook' by The ASP Alliance is one that we prefer(despite most claims, the code in this book does work after you find workarounds to Visual Studio .NET problems first).

The book being reviewed here can be best used for accomplishing the purpose of gaining a COMPLETE working knowledge of ASP.NET. It will obviously take many months of dedicated effort (at least 10-15 hours a week) to master this subject. And there isn't a better book in the market that is so effective in the long run. This is the preferred Desk Reference that all of us use at our company.

One more thing - doing a price comparison, we found that this book also offers the best value since it's priced around the same range as most ASP.NET books but covers the subject end to end while the others only addres a few topics. The high price of .NET books has been a disappointment to us especially due to their general low quality.

Enjoy this complete desk reference to programming in ASP.NET! You will really see the return in a few months.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a good ASP.NET book, August 1, 2003

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Nathan G. Jensen (Herriman, UT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET (Paperback)

I'm still recovering from a really bad asp.net book, and Esposito is restoring my faith in the technical writer.

this book is the best if not only asp.net book you'll ever need to read. the style is very reference-oriented, which means it dumps voluminous amounts of knowledge in your lap (1,000+ pages), all well organized, and with enough tutorials and code samples so it's not like reading a dictionary.

i did some research before buying this book, and i've been delighted with it. no fluff, no meanderings, just hard-core learning. when you're finished, you can use it like a reference, which is how *all* programming books should be, except maybe the beginner-level books.

warning: this book is not for programming beginners. you should have some prior asp experience as well as some object oriented experience in something like Java, c#, c++, etc., or you'll be completely lost, because the material is meat, very little milk.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Confusing at first, April 21, 2004

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Michael Ramey (North Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET (Paperback)

I'd recommend getting this book if you are new to ASP.NET, even though this book is not for the newbie to ASP.NET. This isn't a quick reference book for little problems, this is a concept book, that goes into great detail of how things work in ASP.NET.

I received this book right after starting to use ASP.NET, and it was basically useless to me, as most of the content went over my head. After I got much deeper in my knowledge of ASP.NET, this book started to make much more sense. Most every advanced concept behind ASP.NET is covered here in depth, all at your fingertips, I find it amazing that Dino knows all this stuff!

They only cons I see is that it is a little dry to read, and you won't find any vb.net examples. Other than that, I recommend getting this book