Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional) (Paperback)

by Matthew MacDonald (Author)
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<p>The most up-to-date and comprehensive introductory ASP.NET book you'll find on any shelf, <i>Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005</i> guides you through Microsoft's latest technology for building dynamic websites. You'll learn to build dynamic web pages quickly, with only basic prior knowledge of Visual Basic. Included is thorough coverage of ASP.NET, to guide you from your first steps to advanced techniques like querying databases from within a web page and performance-tuning your site.</p>

<p>This book includes "best practices" and comprehensive discussions about key database and XML principles, which are essential for you to become effective with ASP.NET. The book also emphasizes the invaluable coding techniques of object orientation and code behind, which will enable you to build real-world websites immediately&emdash;rather than just scraping by with simplified coding practices. By the time you've finished this book, you will have mastered the core techniques and possess the necessary knowledge to begin work as a professional ASP.NET developer.</p>

About the Author
Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such as <i>Inside Visual Basic</i>, <i>ASPToday</i>, and <i>Hardcore Visual Studio .NET</i>, and he’s the author of several books about programming with .NET, including <i>User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls</i>, <i>The Book of VB .NET</i>, and <i>.NET Distributed Applications</i>. In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics. Send e-mail to him with praise, condemnation, and everything in between, to <a href="mailto:[e-mail]"> [e-mail]</a>.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1100 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (April 24, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590596218
• ISBN-13: 978-1590596210
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #370,380 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very practical, June 20, 2006

By	George (Rockville, MD USA) - See all my reviews

I found this book to be substantially better than others that I looked at. Most ASP.NET books focus on how to use the automated tools in Visual Web Developer. These are powerful tools, but they seem to give your website a "canned" look.

Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005: From Novice to Professional covered these tools, but went deeper, and demonstrated how to access the important features of ASP.NET 2.0 directly in code. The material was very accessable to me as a novice, and the examples were extremely helpful. I was able to copy them into my code, make the modifications to address my needs, and they worked flawlessly.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Novice???, November 4, 2006

By	M. Lickliter - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Sorry guys. This book is in no way set up for the novice. I am a 3rd year computer engineering student and I find many parts too technical for the beginner. The terminology used will require a certain amount of education to be able to grasp the concepts. If it were named "for the professional", I'd have given it a 5.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Reference, January 9, 2007

By	L. West (Orlando, Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I teach a web application development course for experienced MIS undergraduate students at a huge southern university. This is the second edition of MadDonald's in VB I have used and will continue to use it as long as he keeps publishing them. My students will have had two programming courses in which they use VB and are very experienced with database design, SQL, and stored procedures.

The book provides superb coverage of the development and execution environment, the fundamentals of coding and contols, data connectivity, security, and performance issues. Unlike most other references (at least for VB 2003) MacDonald focuses exclusively on the code-behind pages and doesn't try to mix up the VB code in the HTML pages.

The book contains a superb brief overview of web services--definitely enough for my students to create and field their own.

The explanations and examples are well written and easy to follow for this audience.