ASP.NET in 60 Minutes a Day (Paperback)

by Glenn Johnson (Author) "Around 1996 and 1997, a new platform called Active Server Pages (ASP) was introduced to the world..." (more)
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Product Description
* Introduces Microsoft's widely-used, free Web development tool to new users and to those preparing for certification
* Includes thirty one-hour lessons that recreate a typical week-long introductory seminar
* Gets readers quickly up-to-speed on using ASP.NET and Web Matrix to develop Web pages and Web services
* The author has taught ASP.NET and other Microsoft tools for Xerox Connect and other major corporations
* Companion Web site features an online presentation by the author that follows along with each chapter and includes an audio-only option for readers with dial-up Internet connection

From the Back Cover
Get up and running with ASP.NET using this innovative virtual classroom approach!

Are you ready to learn how to write clean, reusable, scalable code for Web pages using ASP.NET? Experienced trainer Glenn Johnson takes you inside his virtual classroom to provide you with seventeen one-hour lessons that recreate a typical introductory seminar on Microsoft’s scripting technology. By the end of the class, you’ll have gained the skills needed to develop stunning visual elements on your own Web pages and Web services using ASP.NET!

• Discover the key concepts of ASP.NET and gradually progress through the .NET Framework
• Learn how to work with Web server controls available in Visual Studio®.NET and build custom Web controls
• Add security to your Web site as well as enhance its overall performance
• Create custom Web controls from scratch
• Perform data manipulation, sorting, and filtering using the DataGrid control
• Develop ASP.NET applications using such tools as HTTP handlers and modules
• Optimize software performance with ASP.NET caching

Join the author on the companion Web site in a training session. Follow along as he walks you through the online presentation for each chapter provided in streaming video or audio only. Source code is also available for download.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 800 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (May 30, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471430234
• ISBN-13: 978-0471430230
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #705,555 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Buy it for the book, not the online presentation, June 5, 2004

By	J Bucknoff, PMP (Fort Lee, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This is actually a very good book. In fact, Wiley Publishers released 4 "60 Minutes a Day" books": Java, ASP.NET, XML and VB.NET.

The book comes with an accompanying website with audio/visual presentation for each chapter consisting of a PowerPoint presentation along with audio. Warning: You can only view the presentation with a high speed broadband connection. Dial-up can only get the audio and sometimes not even the audio. The online presentations are fine, but the value comes from the book itself, not the online presentation.

I usually shy away from books with phrases like "In a weekend", "in 24 hours", "hour-a-day crash course" etc. You really can't learn a new programming language in a few hours. HOWEVER, THESE BOOKS ARE AN EXCEPTION. The authors don't try to convince you that you can expect to learn ASP.NET using Visual Basic.NET in a weekend. If you do all the lessons (some of which may take a bit more than an hour) plus try to do a few original applications on your own, from scratch, you WILL get a very good foundation of the subjects being taught.

I own both the VB.NET and the ASP.NET (which is also VB.NET based) books and recommended them to my students who wanted to learn Visual Basic.NET.

This books is designed for people who don't have the money or the time to attend a live, in-class course on ASP.NET using Visual Basic.NET. The authors anticipate, in advance, some of the questions you might ask to a live instructor if you were learning ASP.NET in a classroom environment. According to the authors, they have taken their own experience as instructors and put that experience into the book. It works pretty well.

Two caveats:

(1) the book doesn't cover everything about .NET or about ASP.NET or about the .NET Framework. It's provides a self-study, introductory course on ASP.NET. If you complete the book, then you will be in good shape to take on some more advanced topics such as the details of ADO.NET (an entire subject in itself, check out Murach Publisher's Murach's VB.NET Database Programming with ADO.NET by Doug Lowe, Anne Prince - ISBN: 1890774197 for that) and WinForms( check out Wiley Publisher's VB.NET in 60 Minutes a Day Bruce Barstow, Tony Martin )

(2) The online presentations are only available to broadband subscribers. However, even without the videos, this would be a great introductory book for beginners who cannot take a classroom course on Web development using VB.NET and ASP.NET.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Why has no one left a review of this book, January 19, 2004

By	Pat Brown (Round Rock, Tx United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I thought both titles I bought in the 60 minutes series were good (ASP.Net and VB.Net). The video's you get off of the Wiley site are worth the price of the book. Very good for getting you started with the basics and that is what you want from a book like this. I hope that Wiley keeps on in this series but from the lack of reviews I wonder if anyone is buying the books.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Your book is Excellent!, March 26, 2004

By	Glenn R. Johnson (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This email was received from Hans Mills, Lavonia MI.
Your book is Excellent! The videos are great too.
The book covered exactly what I was looking for. I have collected 50+ programming books over the past 20 years. Your coding is straight forward and the same syle that I use after 20 years of experience. I will be looking for more books similarly written by Wiley.