Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005 - Softcover

MacDonald, M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590594967 ISBN 13: 9781590594964

Publisher: APress, 2005

Synopsis

Purchase this book and you'll get the free, fully searchable eBook--a $30 value! (Details are printed inside the book.) ASP.NET 2.0 is the latest version of Microsoft's 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 site's look and feel once and apply it across all your web forms. Themes and skins make for easy customization of your site's 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 -- they'll revolutionize the way you code Personalization -- 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 .N ET 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 it's 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 sources--from 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

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From the Publisher

ASP.NET 2.0 is the latest version of Microsoft’s 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 site’s look and feel once and apply it across all your web forms.

Themes and skins make for easy customization of your site’s 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 â€" they’ll revolutionize the way you code

Personalization â€" 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.

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 Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he's the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET Distributed Applications. In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics.

Mario Szpuszta is working in the Developer and Platform Group of Microsoft Austria. Before he started working for Microsoft, Mario was involved in several projects based on COM+ and DCOM with Visual Basic and Visual C++ as well as projects based on Java and J2SE. With Beta 2 of the .NET Framework, he started developing Web applications with ASP.NET. Right now, as developer evangelist for Microsoft Austria, he is doing workshops, trainings, and proof-of-concept projects together with independent software vendors in Austria based on .NET, Web Services, and Office 2003 technologies.

Edition details

• Publisher: APress
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590594967
• ISBN 13: 9781590594964
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1256