ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials and Code (Sams White Book) (Paperback)

by Scott Mitchell (Author), Donny Mack (Author), Stephen Walther (Author), Doug Seven (Author), Bill Anders (Author), Adam Nathan (Author), Dan Wahlin (Author)

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Instead of having to learn everything about .NET all at once, ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code offers a better way to start using the new ASP.NET effectively based on the most important APIs and programming techniques. For anyone tackling ASP.NET, this book is a great source of practical advice backed up with real examples.

A standout feature of this text is that it does not try to take on all of .NET first before showing you how to start actually using ASP.NET. In the first chapters, you'll learn the most important APIs and programming techniques for using collections, files, and directories, uploading files, and the like. Anchored with VB.NET (and some C# examples), each chapter is written by a separate author (or authors) with a personal take and advice on topics like database programming with ADO.NET, XML, and security options. This is a truly winning approach because it will let beginners or those with experience with the older ASP standard get going quickly with ASP.NET. Better yet, the authors have tested their techniques with the current beta in real code, so you can trust what they say regarding performance, deployment, and configuration, for example.

Final chapters on such advanced topics as separating data from presentation logic, mobile controls for wireless devices, and COM/Win32 interoperability with .NET will please more expert readers. By carving out areas of ASP.NET and exploring them in depth rather than insisting on broad coverage for its own sake, as with many of the first round of titles on .NET, this title sets an admirably high standard as a practical source of programming advice on a platform that is still under construction.

Read this text with or without a general tutorial for .NET and VB.NET and you will have a great head start on Microsoft's newest Web development tools and languages. --Richard Dragan

Product Description

With a foreword by Microsoft's Mark Anders, Professional ASP.NET consists of 19 chapters written by seven of today's leading experts in ASP.NET. These authors are professional developers who create ASP.NET applications, teach, run well-known ASP.NET Web sites, either within or outside of Microsoft. The tutorial framework for each chapter includes:

• A brief introduction, explaining the concept.
• A code example, illustrating the concept.
• A piece-by-piece explanation of the code.

Most examples employ VB.NET, but there are also additional C# examples within each chapter, and all of the example programs will be available at the book's web site in both VB.NET and C#.

The code examples in this book are based upon the ASP.NET Beta2 specifications, a functionally complete version of the software.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 896 pages
• Publisher: Sams (September 2, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672321432
• ISBN-13: 978-0672321436
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #749,499 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Developers, Add This To You Library, November 25, 2001

By	David Gurgel (Roseland, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a serious developer, nothing is more valuable than nicely annotated code samples. This 878-page book is packed with code, with server-side code in VB. I bought this book together with Programming Data-Driver Web Applications With ASP.NET by Mack and Seven. (These two are among the authors of this book, Tips, Tutorials, etc.) Between the two I have a nice library to draw on for help on my current .NET development project.

I have found the SAMS Teach Yourself series very useful in spite of their beginner level content. This book is part of a newer series from SAMS (blue spines with glossy photos of the galaxy) that are intended as in-depth resources for professionals. SO far the six that I have rank with the very best professional series from Apress and seem a bit beyond the always timely and usually useful WROX books.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have Book, February 7, 2002

By A Customer

I have read quite a few of the books out there right now on ASP.NET. There are those that are good reference books like the Wrox Press Professional ASP.NET one, but there are not a lot of books (programming in general) that actually read well and leave you feeling like you could actually implement the ideas after one pass of the material. This is one of those rare books that does that really well. Even if you own some other ASP.NET books, you might want to look at this one. The presentation is fast enough to not be boring, and it has a nice overall flow to it. If you like books that get right into the code, this would make for a good choice. The book does not get extremely deep into all areas, but it would be a bit much to expect one book to do that anyway. If you have programmed in ASP before, I think you will really appreciate the book's perspective.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The book really stands for the title, December 17, 2001

By	Alejandro Guillermo Jack (Olivos, Buenos Aires Argentina) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The book really stands for the title. I found in the book what I was looking for, something to get me started in ASP.NET without it beeing a begginers guide for novice programers. It takes you through every aspect of ASP.NET wich makes some chapters more interesting than others (ADO.NET, XML, Mobile Devices, etc..) almost all the chapters leave you greedy for more (specially passport authentication, webservices, managing state with SQL-Server) but the book is already 837 pages. This is the first time I see ASP.NET covered in every important aspect (web controls, caching and I never saw passport for example).
A mistake was made, by giving the framework sdk in the cd instead of the sample code, wich you can find in a million zip files in the web.
They also failed in telling the sample code is intended to follow your progress in the book. That means you won't see quality code untill chapter 16 (separating code form presentation). I think they made a good desicion, so if your looking for a source of sample code this is the wrong place (Go to the web).
I don't think this will become a reference book for me. As soon as you become proficient in the platform the book becomes shallow but this is the first time i'm happy with a book since i bought "Hitchhiker's guide to visual basic and SQL". This book succeds in having all the Tips, Tutorials and Code you need to get serious into ASP.NET today!!!!!!!!!!!!!.