Product Description What's new and how to use it! That's what this book delivers if you're a Visual Basic developer who wants to upgrade from ASP.NET 1.x to ASP.NET 2.0. In contrast to other books that present the what's new but ignore the how to, this book uses complete business applications to show you exactly how to take advantage of all the new, work-saving 2.0 features.
That means you'll get hands-on training in using: the new code-behind model that untangles aspx pages from their code-behind files; master pages, themes, and skins to standardize the look and feel of a site; data access features like the Access, SQL, and XML data sources and new bound data controls like GridView, DetailsView, and FormView; and object data sources that let you bind to custom business objects so you can create true 3-layer applications without sacrificing the convenience of data binding; site navigation features; login controls; profiles; web parts; the MultiView and Wizard controls; and more.
Beyond that, this book shows you how...and when...to convert 1.x applications to 2.0 and warns you about the problems you're most likely to encounter when converting. It shows you how to deploy your 2.0 applications to the production server. And it shows you how to use the new configuration tools to tame the every-sprawling web.config file.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Good book
It is a very helpful book and saves me a lot of time for doing research.
Rating: - Excellent
It is clear and simple and right to the point. Very Helpful. It gave me a good foundation in ASP.NET 2.0.
Rating: - Good upgrade book
It is an easy read. Each pair of pages is laid out in paragraph form on the left page, and figures with bulleted points on the right page. After 20 or so pages I was confident that there was no need to read the left pages at all.
On the plus side, it actually concentrates on visual studio. So few books do this. And it only contains information about the things that are new.
The only negative is that I thought it would have more actual code methods with examples for the ... Read More
Rating: - Great buy
- Simple reading
- Well organized
- Fast upgrading from 1.1
- The only bad thing I've found is that is a too low programming level. But is a fast way if you want to upgrade your ASP.NET 1.X knowdeleges
Rating: - Best Technical Book...
I've already gone through three books on Visual Studio 2005, VB2005 and ASP 2.0 then finally came across this book. The other books were good, this book was great. It clearly lays out the information and was outrageously easy to read.
Clean writing, excellent examples and the "left page, right page" format they use is great. Easy to read technical writing on the left side page and always examples, clarifications, illustrations on the right side page.
- Good book
- Excellent
