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Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 with C# (Wrox Beginning Guides)
by Chris Hart, John Kauffman, David Sussman, Chris Ullman
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Wrox (2006-05-08)
ISBN: 0470042583
EAN: 9780470042588
Dewey Decimal #: 005.276
Binding/Media: Paperback - 768 pages
SKU: 09122009-0540
Condition: New
Comments: 0470042583 New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
ASP.NET 2.0 is an amazing technology that allows you to develop web sites and applications with very little hassle, and its power and depth enable it to host even the most complex applications available. Using code examples in C#, this invaluable beginner's guide shows you how to program web applications in ASP.NET 2.0 and see dynamic results with minimal effort. Through detailed explanations and working C# code examples, this popular author team eases you into the world of ASP.NET development and gradually introduces you to all sorts of interesting ASP.NET tricks and tools. You'll quickly see how ASP.NET 2.0 is designed to ensure a significant reduction in the amount of code you have to write--and, in turn, to make your life easier. What you will learn from this book - Why Visual Web Developer is an ideal environment for building feature-rich ASP.NET 2.0 applications with C#
- How to secure web sites, providing login functionality and role-based access to content
- Useful techniques for safely updating data, using ASP.NET 2.0's built-in data handling capabilities
- How centralized site design can be easily achieved
- How to add e-commerce functionality to a site
- Methods for enhancing an application's performance
Who this book is for This book is for anyone new to web programming who wants to program dynamic, feature-rich web applications in ASP.NET 2.0. It will also be ideal for programmers seeking to upgrade their ASP 3 knowledge to ASP.NET, or programmers from non-Microsoft web disciplines who need to learn ASP.NET 2.0. Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.
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Customer Reviews
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This book is garbage
Rating  (1)
Date: 2009-06-02
So I read the first 2 chapters and already 2 examples did not work at all. On the first example, the book asked me to create 2 files with the same name. Of course, when I did it the 2nd time it asked if I want to overwrites the file. Fine so I did that to move on.
On the 2nd example, the book asked me to create 2 DIVs with the same ID. Of course, Visual Studio will complain about that.
I kept reading over and over again in hope of an error coming from me but no, it's the book.
I just ordered the book and now I'm waiting to receive it so that I can resell it back immediately. What a waste of my time.
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Good Starter
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-06-20
This is a great book for getting started with ASP.Net. Every chapter is filled with codes to try along with the CD to help you out. Does not cover everything but that would be impossible in one book.
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(Very) Humble Beginnings
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-10-30
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
At 700+ pages this text contains way too much fluff and filler to be a useful guide to the beginning ASP developer. It's basically a "Visual Web Developer for Dummies" kind of book, only heavier and more wordy. Its target seems to be the totally clueless "developer" who doesn't even know enough C# syntax to save his life. Now, it's true that Visual Studio will allow you to generate a mediocre web site without having to write a significant amount of code yourself, but does it really makes sense to encourage someone to try ASP web development before he has a decent background in C# or VB? I think that is forming code monkeys, not programmers.
Anyhow, to be fair this book has some qualities that I liked, apart from a general vagueness the explanations are quite clear, the "try it out" sections detailed enough, and I especially appreciated the fact that the book uses both small standalone examples and a more comprehensive example website developed piecemeal along the book to illustrate the various ASP.NET aspects and features. Finally what really puzzles me is, I know Wrox has an unhealthy love for multiple author's book, but did it really take 4 people to write an ASP.NET intro for dummies?
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Not bad, but couldn't connect
Rating (3)
Date: 2007-10-22
As hard as I tried, I just couldn't connect with this book. I prefer either a straight ahead reference book or a clear, step-by-step tutorial-style book in which the reader learns by building a complete project. However, this book didn't seem to fill either role.
Though there is a project (the Wrox United web site), the examples at times seem a bit muddy and without context to the complete project. I can't say this is a bad book, as I did glean some useful information from it (good coverage on themes and data controls, but almost no code until chapter 9). But after finishing the book, I didn't really feel that I came away with a good grasp of what I had read as a whole. In comparison, "Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB" is a book I feel delivers a clearly written step-by-step tutorial.
My overall impression of the book my be due to my learning style not matching the style of the book, or due to the fact that I'm not a "beginning" programmer. In any case, "Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 with C#" might make a good second book, but I'm not sure that I'd recommend it as a starting point.
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Where's the code?
Rating  (2)
Date: 2007-06-27
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Sorry, this book is great if you are a drag and drop type of web programmer. I think it is great that visual studio allows the ability to virtually drag and drop and entire data driven website. But my problem is that if you don't understand the code behind it, when something breaks you can't fix it since I am unaware of any drag and drop tools that do that for you.
My point being this book should have been titled. "asp.net with c# only using the free visual web developer IDE for people who don't want to know what the c# code really looks like or how to write programs with it."
The only reason I gave it 2 stars and not 1 is because my gripes aside, they do enforce a lot of Best Practice in the excercises.
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