Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 with C# (Wrox Beginning Guides) (Paperback)

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Product Description
ASP.NET 2.0 is an amazing technology that allows you to develop web sites and applications with very little hassle, and its power and depth enable it to host even the most complex applications available. Using code examples in C#, this invaluable beginner's guide shows you how to program web applications in ASP.NET 2.0 and see dynamic results with minimal effort.

Through detailed explanations and working C# code examples, this popular author team eases you into the world of ASP.NET development and gradually introduces you to all sorts of interesting ASP.NET tricks and tools. You'll quickly see how ASP.NET 2.0 is designed to ensure a significant reduction in the amount of code you have to write--and, in turn, to make your life easier.

What you will learn from this book

• Why Visual Web Developer is an ideal environment for building feature-rich ASP.NET 2.0 applications with C#
• How to secure web sites, providing login functionality and role-based access to content
• Useful techniques for safely updating data, using ASP.NET 2.0's built-in data handling capabilities
• How centralized site design can be easily achieved
• How to add e-commerce functionality to a site
• Methods for enhancing an application's performance

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone new to web programming who wants to program dynamic, feature-rich web applications in ASP.NET 2.0. It will also be ideal for programmers seeking to upgrade their ASP 3 knowledge to ASP.NET, or programmers from non-Microsoft web disciplines who need to learn ASP.NET 2.0.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

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ASP.NET 2.0 is an amazing technology that allows you to develop web sites and applications with very little hassle, and its power and depth enable it to host even the most complex applications available. Using code examples in C#, this invaluable beginner's guide shows you how to program web applications in ASP.NET 2.0 and see dynamic results with minimal effort.

Through detailed explanations and working C# code examples, this popular author team eases you into the world of ASP.NET development and gradually introduces you to all sorts of interesting ASP.NET tricks and tools. You'll quickly see how ASP.NET 2.0 is designed to ensure a significant reduction in the amount of code you have to write—and, in turn, to make your life easier.

What you will learn from this book

• Why Visual Web Developer is an ideal environment for building feature-rich ASP.NET 2.0 applications with C#
• How to secure web sites, providing login functionality and role-based access to content
• Useful techniques for safely updating data, using ASP.NET 2.0's built-in data handling capabilities
• How centralized site design can be easily achieved
• How to add e-commerce functionality to a site
• Methods for enhancing an application's performance

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone new to web programming who wants to program dynamic, feature-rich web applications in ASP.NET 2.0. It will also be ideal for programmers seeking to upgrade their ASP 3 knowledge to ASP.NET, or programmers from non-Microsoft web disciplines who need to learn ASP.NET 2.0.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 768 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (May 8, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470042583
• ISBN-13: 978-0470042588
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #143,687 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great ASP.NET book!, April 30, 2006

By	Frank Stepanski (PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

With Microsoft's update to ASP.NET to version 2.0, everybody is getting re-excited with this stable web development framework from Microsoft. It seems every publisher is updating their existing ASP.NET 1.1 books with just the new features of the latest version. But not this book...

This book gives a great introduction to what ASP.NET is and what advances are available with the latest version. The whole goes through every aspect of ASP.NET 2.0 basics in developing an interactive, database-driven website (WROX United Applciation). Reviewing it this way really gives the reader how all the features of ASP.NET and what can really been done with it, instead of just explaining different topics individually.

The next chapter reviews the basics of site design and how to setup your ASP.NET pages with one of the big features of ASP.NET 2.0 with is Master Pages. The next chapter continues from Chapter 2 with the design attributes of the site and goes into greater detail of using Visual Studio 2005 in some great explanations of what dynamic content is.

The next couple chapters explain sing memberships, themes (new ASP.NET 2.0 feature), events (new events in ASP.NET 2.0), and a 2 great chapters (7 and 8) on reading and writing data using web controls. One of the most powerful features of ASP.NET (both versions) are the web controls (design and data). These controls provide instant functionality to displaying, formatting, storing data from the user or from a datasource.

This book assumes no experience in programming in C# or Visual Studio 2005 and starts from the basics to really teach the reader how to create your dynamic web site.

A great book from WROX for getting people up to speed on ASP.NET 2.0 for the beginner or the ASP.NET 1.1 user who needs refreshing on the latests features.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Have fun!, July 22, 2006

By	Jeff S. Bridges "jsbfromtennessee" (Nashville, TN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Getting past setting the examples up. Whole directories are mentioned out of the blue where they didn't exist before. Unzip to <this> directory. Now open up <that> directory...

(Of course <that> directory isn't even previously mentioned)

And now let's work with *another* file/directory...that doesn't exist....

Sheesh...if you can't trust 'em to get *this* right, how can you trust 'em in the rest of the book?

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice Overview of ASP.NET 2.0 & C#, December 26, 2006

By	Daniel McKinnon (Tewksbury, MA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

'Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 with C#' is a nice beginning guide for anyone that is new to ASP.NET 2.0 and/or C#. Filled with over 700+ pages of material, my only quip with this book is that it is a bit too long (hence 4 instead of 5 stars). I feel that more brevity could have been used when editing this book to eliminate 200-300 pages but because the content contained within is good, I still don't hesitate to recommend this.

If you look at other reviews of this book, some people gripe about some of the directory errors contained within, and while this editing mistake IS true, I think that this ignores the fact that the content within IS good and a new user can get a lot out of this text.

Chapter Overiew

01. Intro to ASP.NET 2.0
02. Site Design
03. Page Design
04. Membership and Identity
05. Styling with Themes
06. Events and Code
07. Reading Data
08. Writing Data
09. Code
10. Componentization
11. Roles and Profiles
12. Web Services
13. E-Commerce
14. Performance
15. Error Handling
16. Deployment

If you are already an experienced ASP.NET 2.0 programmer this book is not for you. If you are new to this technology and want to pick up a book that will get you started and learning right away, I think this is a nice text to add to your collection.

**** RECOMMENDED