Programming Microsoft Web Forms (Pro Developer) [Paperback]

J. Reilly Douglas (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0735621799 | ISBN-13: 978-0735621794 | Publication Date: November 9, 2005

Get the focused, straightforward information you need to master the most common challenges in developing real-world Web Forms applications. Whether you’re a new or experienced developer, you’ll learn the essential techniques for exploiting new forms and controls in Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0—enabling you to write Web applications more quickly and with less code.

Discover how to:

• Work with standard ASP.NET controls for common tasks
• Create your own user controls and custom server controls
• Lay out forms with HTML and Cascading Style Sheets
• Create common page elements just once with Master Pages
• Style your Web Forms with themes and skins
• Add Web Parts and allow users to personalize pages
• Access and edit data with Microsoft ADO.NET objects
• Bind data to your form controls—without adding any code
• Create security-enhanced Web applications
• Integrate your Web forms with Windows Forms applications

PLUS—Get code samples on the Web

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

A practical, streamlined, and hands-on approach focused on expediting developer productivity with Web forms capabilities and utilities for Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft Visual C#® 2005

Key Book Benefits:

• Delivers straightforward, need-to-know information about using Web Forms to create Web pages, with no diversions into minutiae

• Demonstrates skills that will be critical in future Windows development environments, including the Windows code-named "Longhorn" operating system and its "Avalon" graphical interface

• Features quick, hands-on programming guidance covering controls, Web parts, data binding, and other key topics

About the Author

Douglas J. Reilly is the author of several Windows-related programming books, including Designing Microsoft ASP.NET Applications (Microsoft Press). He has been published extensively in technical magazines and Web sites, and is the "Database Geek of the Week" columnist for Simple-Talk.com. Doug is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for ASP/ASP.NET and a member of the ASPInsiders team. Doug develops security-focused Web applications and multitier client/server applications for the healthcare industry as owner of a small consulting company, Access Microsystems, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (November 9, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735621799
• ISBN-13: 978-0735621794
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,991,560 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great for a beginner, March 3, 2006

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Tyrus "Tyrus" (SC United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Programming Microsoft Web Forms (Pro Developer) (Paperback)

I bought this book because I took a skills assesment w/ Microsoft and it was their recommendation. Based on the complexity of the assessment I would have thought that it would have been much more in depth. It is very Top-Level. Good if you are just getting into ASP.NET 2.0, not a great reference if you are looking for the subtleties however.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Better Microsoft Book, May 12, 2006

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A. Langton "Kungpowpig" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Programming Microsoft Web Forms (Pro Developer) (Paperback)

This book is an improvement on most of the Microsoft Press books I have read, especially the "Step by Step" ones. The writing is terse and the explanations and examples are pretty understandable.

"Programming Microsoft Web Forms" is a mish mash of web development tools for the developer that is not a novice, but not a pro either. This book is for that middle ground programmer who is looking for realistic problems to solve that can be applied to someone with a little more than beginner understanding of ASP.Net, C#, JavaScript, CSS, databases, and web development.

You can even use it as a refresher course or an update on Microsoft web tech if you're relatively new to .Net.

Personally, this book did for me exaclty what I expected it to, which was help deepen my understanding of ASP.Net and how .Net handles on the web.