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Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008: Includes Silverlight 2
Publisher: Apress - January 02, 2009 ISBN-10: 1430216301, ISBN-13: 9781430216308
Author: Matthew MacDonald
Mario Szpuszta
Vidya Vrat Agarwal
1500 pages
Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008: Includes Silverlight 2 - book reviews: 3
ASP.NET 3.5 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. Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008: Includes Silverlight 2 raises the bar for high–quality, practical advice on learning and deploying Microsoft’s dynamic web solution.
Updated with everything you need to integrate Silverlight 2.0 into your ASP.NET applications, this book teaches you all about Silverlight’s exciting new features so that your ASP projects can be rich in visual flair and compelling to the user. You’ll learn how to use the new levels of abstraction in the Entity Framework to design elegant, powerful application architectures.
Seasoned .NET professionals Matthew MacDonald, Mario Szpuszta, and Vidya Vrat Agarwal explain how you can get the most from these groundbreaking new technologies. They cover ASP.NET 3.5 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 3.5 applications in the best possible style.
The book will teach you ASP.NET 3.5 starting with core concepts to more advanced topics. You will learn
- Core concepts of ASP.NET 3.5. Why it’s special. What its fundamental principles are. The basics of Visual Studio. How ASP.NET 3.5 controls are created, and how they fit into ASP.NET 3.5 pages, ultimately creating full applications.
- Security. Once considered the Achilles’ heel of all Windows web applications, security has vastly improved and is a cornerstone of ASP.NET 3.5. This book 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+.
- Web services. In an increasingly connected world, working with web services grows in importance. This book will show you how to work with them.
- ASP.NET AJAX, with an emphasis on contemporary web development techniques.
- Development using Internet Information Services 7, Microsoft’s premier web hosting platform.
And much more.
About the Apress Pro Series
The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.
You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.
Decent book
Very thorough book, and at 1600+ pages, it ought to be. That being said, there are some weaknesses. I have read parts of the book, and then later when trying to retrieve same information, could not find it in the index. This was frustrating having to re-read entire chapters until I found what I was looking for.
Also, there is no background information on OO techniques. While technically not the purpose of the book, it would be nice to know how pages can be inherited from one another and how that technique differs from, say, using Master Pages.
Another thing the book did NOT have that I was hoping it would is detailed information on how to programmatically add controls to an ASP.Net web page. Nothing in the book at all.
Last but not least, the book claims to explain ASP.Net in VB 2008 yet some of the examples are clearly C# syntax. This is a typo for sure, but frankly an unacceptable one in my opinion. If I wanted a C# book, I would have purchased one.
Steve F.
29 September, 2009
Great Book - Covers Everythin about ASP.NET From a Professional point of view
Excellent Book, includes hundreds of detailed examples that cover everything from ASP.NET From basic concepts to Client Side Programming, From Chapter 7 to 14 it explains different types of data access techniques including Linq, ADO.NET, SQL Server Classes, Datasets, and XML.
On Part 3 you Will learn how to build ASP.NET Websites using Custom user Controls, Themes and Master Pages, and also how to define and bid Site maps. In this section you will also learn all about CSS and how it works in conjunction with HTML or XHTML.
Another interesting Section is the Security Section, It explains how to authentificate forms and create memberships to control access for specific users.
The Last Section talks about client-side Programming including JavaScript, Ajax and the most interesting one, Silverlight (the Flash Killer).
JORGE_C
09 May, 2009
Excellent reference with good samples
This book is packed full of good information. Lots of good samples including implementing real-world solutions. Nice chapter on custom server controls.
James Stark
09 April, 2009
