Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition [Paperback]

Jim Buyens (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 073561637X | ISBN-13: 978-0735616370 | Publication Date: May 9, 2002

The Microsoft® .NET Framework is all about simplifying the exchange of data among applications across the Internet, regardless of operating system or back-end software. The step-by-step lessons in this easy-to-grasp tutorial detail the major .NET database technologies to demonstrate how to create powerful, flexible Web databases that can serve your needs today and scale for the future. You’ll discover the background behind the latest Web database technologies—and see them in action with complete code samples. If you know how to use HTML, know something about databases, and want to integrate the two in the .NET era with Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET, this book is for you.

Topics covered include:

• Getting started with Web databases
• Organizing your Web environment
• Introducing ASP.NET
• Introducing Web Forms
• Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
• Understanding database concepts and terms
• Accessing databases with ADO.NET
• Accessing the file system and graphics
• Running database queries
• Identifying visitors and sessions
• Updating databases
• Handling file uploads and pictures
• Creating and using XML Web services
• Tuning and debugging applications

Product Details

• Paperback: 450 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (May 9, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 073561637X
• ISBN-13: 978-0735616370
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.4 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,507,703 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource for Beginners, October 1, 2000

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This review is from: Web Database Development Step by Step (Dv-Dlt Fundamentals) (Paperback)

People, it does not break down any easier than this! This book explains all the basics in clear, concise, and easy to follow examples. Be warned, you will not want to stop learning after reading this book. Probably the most impressive facet of this book is that it uses Notepad (or any text editor) for all examples of ASP despite its ties to Microsoft. It uses Access for database examples as it is the most readily available. This book does a great job demystifying the "data-driven" web page. If you are beginner or a web author with some fuzzy notions of data-driven web pages (as I was), get this book. 6-stars!!!

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really Helpful, August 31, 2000

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Chris Carrell "book bug" (Bothell, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Web Database Development Step by Step (Dv-Dlt Fundamentals) (Paperback)

When I started reading this book, I knew nothing of ASP, ADO AcitveX, XML or even HTML. Using only this book, I built a moderately complex, Microsoft-centric, web accessed database from scratch.

The book gives you just enough information to get the job done.

Easy read. Straight to the point. Helpful examples.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great starting point..., October 19, 2001

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Scott B. Leonard (Watertown, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Web Database Development Step by Step (Dv-Dlt Fundamentals) (Paperback)

This is a great starting point for anyone looking to take their database to the web. Of course, if you have some prior knowledge of ASP and VBscript, it makes it much easier. Although I have many years of VB and SQL Server experience, I still read this in its entirety and found some great info for taking some of the DB's at my job to our corporate intranet and across the internet.

This book takes you step by step (as the title implies) from designing your database (predominantly in Access although he explains how to connect to other databases) to getting it accessible through the web. The examples are great and they tend to build on each other. By the end of the book you should have a good foundation to design any type of data driven website you can imagine and password authenticate it as well.

If you are starting out and you are using Microsoft software, then this is a literal cookbook for web database success. Kudos to Jim Buyens for putting out an informative book that reads quickly.