Murach's ASP.NET 3.5 Web Programming with VB 2008 - Softcover

Boehm, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890774472 ISBN 13: 9781890774479

Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates Inc, 2008

Synopsis

"This book is by far the best computer programming book I have ever bought. You can go into my upstairs closet and find 20-30 books that I have purchased since the days of VB6.... All together, they could not add up to as much information as you have given me in the first 11 chapters of this book." (A developer's comment on the previous edition of Murach's ASP.NET)

Already know how to code Visual Basic 2008 desktop applications? Then, you're ready to master web programming with the 3.5 edition of this best-selling ASP.NET book from Murach Books.

It covers the 3.5 features that provide new functionality...like the ListView and DataPager data controls, LINQ data sources, new CSS-related tools, and ASP.NET AJAX...while it teaches you how to develop web applications from scratch. And it does that using all the same features that have made earlier editions such favorites among professional developers:

#1. It's concise, practical, and crystal-clear in telling you what you need to know

#2. It shows you how to get the most from Visual Studio 2008 as you code, test, debug, and deploy ASP.NET web applications

#3. It gives you a 7-chapter section on database programming...2 more chapters than in the previous edition because .NET continues to deliver new, powerful tools for this critical component of business applications

#4. It gives you solid training in the essential skills that you'll use every day, including data validation...state management...improving the user experience with easy site navigation and a standard look and feel...boosting user response time with ASP.NET AJAX...handling security...developing reusable controls...working with database data using SQL, object, and LINQ data sources...and more

#5. It gives you real-world application examples that guide you in applying what you're learning as you develop your own websites (you can download the applications for free from the Murach website)

#6. Its paired pages presentation makes for fast reading, instant reinforcement, and time-saving reference (to see how the paired pages work, you can download free chapters from the Murach website)

So if you need to learn ASP.NET 3.5 web programming, we hope you'll try this book first. We're convinced that it will deliver the training you need better and faster than any competing book.

About this title

From the Publisher

During the last 30 years, many customers have asked me how it is that a small publisher in Fresno can make the best programming books. The short answer is that no other publisher works the way we do.

Instead of using freelance writers who get no training, we use a small staff of programmers who are trained in our proven writing and teaching methods. Instead of publishing 40+ books each year, we focus on just a few. Instead of showing pieces of code, we provide complete applications that have been checked and re-checked for accuracy. And instead of rushing books to market, we refuse to let schedule or budget interfere with quality. As I see it, that’s the only way to make sure that every book we publish is the best one on its subject.

That’s why I say that no other ASP.NET 2.0 book will teach you so much, so fast, or so thoroughly as ours will. Try it and see for yourself!

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: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1890774472
• ISBN 13: 9781890774479
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 1000