Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 Web Programming with VB 2005 - Softcover

Boehm, Anne; Lowe, Doug

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890774324 ISBN 13: 9781890774325

Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates Inc., 2006

Synopsis

This book is for Visual Basic developers who want to learn how to develop professional web applications with Microsoft's ASP.NET 2.0. Because the first 4 chapters carefully present the skills for developing simple web applications, this book works for both beginners and experienced programmers. Then, the next four sections present (1) the skills you need for almost all web applications, (2) the skills you need for database applications, (3) the skills you need for e-commerce applications, and (4) the skills you need for developing code that can be reused in other applications.

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About the Author

Anne Boehm has over 20 years of experience as an enterprise programmer. For the past 7 years, she's specialized in Visual Basic and .NET programming, and she's authored or co-authored books on VB.NET, ADO.NET, and ASP.NET.Doug Lowe is one of the select group of authors whose books on computer programming have sold over 1 million copies. With more than 25 years of programming experience to back him up, Doug has taught programmers worldwide how to develop enterprise applications for both the mainframe and the desktop. In the last 4 years, he's become a specialist in .NET development, co-authoring bestselling books on ADO.NET, ASP.NET, and C#.

From the Back Cover

Here s what developers say about Murach s .NET books

"This book enabled me to write custom websites for two customers, which is exactly what I wanted it to do. No previous book did such an excellent job of demonstrating how to handle security and database classes."
Charles Profitt; posted at Developerland.com

"I purchased several ASP.NET books but didn t really learn it until I purchased this one."
J.R., Enterprise Developer, Florida

"I especially appreciated the workaround insights for common hang-ups, like dealing with back-button refreshes. These gems alone will be worth the price of the book for many first-time .NET web authors."
5-star review by Mike Riley of asp.netPRO

"I ve become a huge fan of Murach s paired-page presentation. I m a convert and don t mind saying so."
Stephen Wynkoop, SQL Server Worldwide Users Group

"I've been spreading the word about your books because they enable me to read a few pages and learn a great deal. This makes the 3rd Murach book that I have purchased, and I'm sure it won't be the last."
P.V.L., Business Systems Analyst, Virginia

"Your books hash out the information in a way where it's easy to understand, and your writers are second to none."
John Orlando, Software Engineer, Florida

"All I can say is Murach rocks. I started with your VB.NET books (all 3 of them), and now I m on my MCAD way."
Tomislav Ivancic, .NET Developer

From the Inside Flap

To be more specific about what this book presents, here is a brief description of each of its five sections:
Section 1 is designed to get you off to a fast start. So the first three chapters show you how to use Visual Studio and ASP.NET to design and code both one-page and multi-page web applications that get data from a database. Then, chapter 4 shows you how to test and debug your web applications. At that point, you re ready to write some serious web applications of your own, and you re ready for rapid progress in the sections that follow.
Section 2 presents the other skills that you re likely to use in every ASP.NET application that you develop. That includes the essential HTML skills, how to use all of the server and validation controls, and more about managing the state of an application than what s covered in section 1. Then, the last three chapters in this section show you how to use three powerful new ASP.NET 2.0 features: master pages, site navigation, and themes.
In section 3, you ll learn how to use the data access features of ASP.NET 2.0. That includes a new feature called data sources, which can dramatically reduce the amount of data access code that you need for an application. It includes some new bound controls that are designed to work with data sources. And it includes object data sources, which make it easier for you to separate presentation code from data access code. This is powerful stuff, so you re going to want to read this section from start to finish.
Section 4 completes the set of skills that you need for developing professional e-commerce web applications. Here, you ll learn how to secure data transmissions between client and server, authenticate and authorize users, use profiles to personalize your applications, use email within your applications, and much more. Then, the last chapter in this section shows you the best ways to configure and deploy your applications.
Last, section 5 shows you how to develop user controls, custom server controls, and web services. Those are three different ways that you can write code once and reuse it in more than one web application. And these techniques are commonly used in large development shops.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates Inc.
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1890774324
• ISBN 13: 9781890774325
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 820