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Product Details

  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies (December 19, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 076457907X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764579073
  • Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.9 x 9.3 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA great book for the ASP.NET beginner
By Webmaster At CodeGuru.com on November 5, 2001
Format: Paperback
In its 420 printed pages, ASP.NET for Dummies covers the key topics to get you up and running with ASP.NET. You learn the basics of obtaining and displaying information on your sites. You learn how to use built-in functions such as date routines, math routines, and browser routines. You even learn how to work with data and databases on the server. This includes coverage of Active Data Objects (ADO) - a key way of doing database access. Building ASP.NET Web forms is covered in detail along with using server side controls ranging from radio buttons to drop down lists. Programming topics such as arrays, array lists, and hash tables are also explained as well as shown in examples.
While ASP.NET for Dummies is "for Dummies," you should already be familiar with programming concepts. As with most Active Server Page-related books, ASP.NET for Dummies uses Visual Basic .NET as its choice of programming languages. If you don't know Visual Basic .NET, don't fret. The book spends several chapters teaching the basics of what you need to know in order to program for ASP.NET. If you have never programmed before, you will most likely find that this moves too fast. However, if you know a scripting language such as JavaScript or VBScript you should have no trouble keeping up with the coverage of Visual Basic .NET in this book.
It is worth pointing out that this book doesn't stop at just covering the creation of ASP.NET pages, but it also covers creating full-fledge ASP.NET applications. The book presents a couple of ASP.NET applications that are larger and more practical than standard book examples. Within the text of the book a chat room and a classified application are both included. On the CD there is also a guest book application. Code for all three applications is on the CD.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent book for beginners!!!
By Ash Mahajan on June 30, 2002
Format: Paperback
I have used this book to help teach a beginning class in ASP.NET. I myself was new to this platform when I took on this class. Both myself and my students really appreciated this book. In particular I liked the fact that the author did not assume any knowledge of OO, .net framework, VB.NET, VB, and/or classic ASP. His code samples build in complexity over the span of the book, and I worked through 90% of the examples in the book and found them to be almost entirely error-free. If you already know something about web development, the HTML in this book may not entirely meet your "standards", but that's not the focus of this book. While reading the book may give you a good overview, the real value will come from actually typing the code. There are many ASP.NET books that are for beginners, but this one assumes very little knowledge on your part. I evaluated the "ASP.NET Step by Step" by MS Press, and the "Beginning ASP.NET using VB.NET" from Wrox Pub. as possible candidates for my course text, and while both of these books are exhaustive and excellent, they lack the simplicity and humor of this Dummies book. If you are a programmer who is migrating to the ASP.NET platform, perhaps you will be better served by these other candidates from MS Press and Wrox Pub. However, if you are not a programmer, then this Dummies book is the way to go. As a final piece of advice I would suggest that you supplement this book with other books/articles/online sources that speak more to the theory of topics such as "Web Services", "J2EE versus .net", "SOAP, XML", etc. Overall, I give this book two thumbs up and five stars without hesitation!!!
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4.0 out of 5 starsToo much Web Forms
By Jeffry Houser on February 9, 2003
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I've been doing web development for over 7 years. I have a Computer Science Degree and have written 3 books on ColdFusion. I bought this book for a really quick intro to .NET development.
Did I get it? Yes! The book seemed to be very well organized. The writing was solid and straight forward. I had no problem understanding or reading this book. I thought the chapter explaining how to get data out of a database was particularly good.
Now I can't give this book five stars. Why? There is too much information on web forms (I believe it was 5 chapters). The author tells us to forget everything we know about regular HTML forms. Web Forms are just a layer of abstraction over regular HTML forms (They submit onto themselves), it seems like a bad approach to understanding them. A full chapter is dedicated to 'fixing' web forms to deal with problems that come up when a form that submits onto itself. I don't see the benefit of using them and everyone I've spoken to who uses them is having major performance issues in production.
I can understand that web forms are a big thing touted by microsoft, but I would have preferred to see less real estate for web forms and have other topics, such as error handling, put into this book.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn Excellent Book!
By A Customer on July 28, 2002
Format: Paperback
I am an HTML developer who works with ASP websites all the time. I do not know ASP nor VB, but I wanted to learn ASP.NET because I know it will be everywhere in a year or so. I've had good luck with the 24 Hours/21 Days series from Sams Publishing so I got that book first. Big mistake.
I must have read the first three chapters three or four times and I was still confused. The author assumed a lot of knowledge of VB and ASP and I was totally and completely frustrated.
The other day I purchased ASP.NET for Dummies and I absolutely love this book. If you've never written ASP or worked with VB then this is the book you neeed to get. Bill explains everything in a simple way and each code example is explained.
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5.0 out of 5 starsEXCELLENT

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Published 6 months ago by H. M. Cekirge
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat for the beginner

Love the "Dummies" books because they explain the basics and are clearly written without an excess of technical information when one is just starting out. This one is no exception.

Published on May 17, 2009 by Janet
3.0 out of 5 starsASP.NET for those who don't want to use Visual Studio

Bill Hatfield wrote the "Dummies" books on the original versions of ASP so you would think he would be the perfect person to carry over into the ASP.NET books, right? Read more

Published on April 29, 2008 by James Forbes
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat first book!

I just happen to find this book in the library when I was looking for a quick guide/tutorial. I've read 3 books before this and so far this is the book that stands out from the... Read more

Published on March 10, 2008 by Book worm
5.0 out of 5 starsA better title would include the words "visual basic"

I think Dummies books are hit-or-miss. I always start with them, when embarking on something I am a dummy at. About half the time, they put you off to a good first step. Read more

Published on August 22, 2007 by Scott Saccenti
5.0 out of 5 starsASP.NET for DUMMIES

Only having truly scanned through and hit the highlights of this book thus far. I already see many familiar concepts broken down into much simpler terms which allow me to quickly... Read more

Published on August 4, 2007 by K. M. Austin
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat for getting oriented to .Net web development

I am a software developer with 24 years experience, and have been doing .Net Windows Form database programming for the past 5+ years. Read more

Published on August 3, 2006 by Dr. Robotnik
4.0 out of 5 starsGood book for learning ASP.NET 2.0 basics

If you are new to ASP.NET or have little to no programming experience this is a good book to start with. It will teach you the basics of ASP.NET 2. Read more

Published on June 8, 2006 by Amazon Customer
2.0 out of 5 starsNot what expected

This book its deficient and it doesnt explain you how to use the Visual Studio Interface.

Published on June 4, 2006 by J. A. RUELAS
5.0 out of 5 starsAwesome Book for all levels of expierience

This book is a good starting point if you want to learn ASP.NET. It is very descriptive and has lots of things you can try on your computer. Read more

Published on April 19, 2006 by R. Rizzo

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