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I like this book because it covers all the key aspects of building a secure professional Web site, and pays special attention to databases and controls. I especially like the attention paid to security.
— Dennis Hayes, .NET Developer's Journal
this is good, ‘cause these guys didnt skimp or skim. Better still, the examples are just as comprehensive.
— Jeff Tolle, Steal This Code
ASP.NET 2.0 is the latest version of Microsofts revolutionary ASP.NET technology. It is the principal standard for creating dynamic web pages on the Windows platform. ASP.NET 2.0 boasts a range of important new features that make it superior to any Windows web-presentation technology that has come before it. A few of these are:
Masterpages let you define your sites look and feel once and apply it across all your web forms.
Themes and skins make for easy customization of your sites look and feel. Generics these much vaunted new additions to the .NET Framework allow you to create a data structure without committing to a specific data type &emdash; theyll revolutionize the way you code
Personalization &emdash; ASP.NET 2.0 makes it easier than ever before to create customized experiences tailored for individual users.
These, combined with improvements in everything from speed (ASP.NET 2.0 pages are faster to both write and serve), administration , data access, security and scalability make ASP.NET 2.0 the leading force in .NET web development.
Seasoned .NET professionals Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta explain how you can get the most from this ground-breaking new technology. They cover ASP.NET 2.0 as a whole, illustrating both the brand-new features and the functionality carried over from previous versions of ASP. This book will give you the knowledge you need to code real ASP.NET 2.0 application in the best possible style.
The book will teach you ASP.NET 2.0 in five clear steps. You will learn:
Core concepts of ASP.NET 2.0. Why its special. What its fundamental principals are. The basics of Visual Studio. How ASP.NET 2.0 controls are created, and how they fit into ASP.NET 2.0 pages, ultimately creating full applications
Data access details. The intricacies of ADO.NET 2.0 and how to perform data binding to many sourcesfrom databases, to file-streams, to XML
Security. Once considered the Achilles heel of all Windows web applications, security has been completely revamped in ASP.NET 2.0. This section explains the various forms of available security, and how to best apply them
Taking things further using Advanced User Interface Techniques. This includes User Controls, Customer Server Controls, client-side JavaScript and GDI+. This is where the real strength of ASP.NET 2.0 lies
Web Services. In an increasingly connected world, working with web services grows in importance. This book will show you how to work with them
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Code snippets; nothing works or explained; obsolete as of 2007
This books is obsolete as of today (2007). It consists of code snips in C#, but no complete examples. Like another reviewer wrote, nothing works after the first "hello world" sample. If you already know ASP.NET, I suppose this book is somewhat useful, but the book is verbose; why spend a whole chapter (Chap. 2) on Visual Studio 2005? If the purpose of the book was a "how to", showing step by step how to build an ASP.NET project, then I could understand this inclusion, but the book is not a "how ... Read More
Rating: - I LOVE this book
Love may be a weird word but if I could take it to bed with me, I would. (JK). This book is one of the best in the market and probably one of the single best ways to actually learn how to code C# with ASP.NET 2.0 the proper way and best ways out there.
We used it for our .com and the entire team felt the say way about this book and another which is Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005: From Novice to Professional.
This book is huge however I feel that one can read it from front ... Read More
Rating: - Outstanding Book for Those Wishing to Work With ASP.NET and C#
I have been a professional web developer for the past 8 years working for a boutique web development shop. While we have done a decent bit of classic ASP over the years, prior to 2006 we have not jumped aggressively on the .NET bandwagon. The advent of ASP.NET 2.0 and the growing din of client requests has changed that and we are now focusing on .NET development.
Prior to reading this book, I read through the Wrox Visual C# 2005 book to gain a solid footing in C# and .NET in general. I ... Read More
Rating: - A Behemoth
This book is choc-full of useful material on ASP.net. A monster
in his category, it contains way more about asp.net than you probably want to know...can be a good reference for the experienced ASP.net developer who is moving to the 2.0 version, or has already read smaller books and played a bit with the technology.
What I find aggravating in this title is the bloated and pompous writing style. This being just another clunky web-technology, who are the authors trying to impress? Also, some of ... Read More
Rating: - Probably my last Apress Book
I've just about had it with Apress books such as this one. The text shows the code for the various examples, but often the code is just a snippet, or it's incomplete, or it has errors. And you don't find this out unless you download the book's code from Apress.com. If you're like me and like to work the examples out on your own as you read, the whole process becomes very aggravating. I think I'll switch back to books from O'Reilly. With O'Reilly books, the authors present a complete, working version ... Read More
- Code snippets; nothing works or explained; obsolete as of 2007
- I LOVE this book
- A Behemoth
