- Paperback: 896 pages
- Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (23 Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0672321432
- ISBN-13: 978-0672321436
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.7 x 4.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,735,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Web developers using Microsoft server platforms will migrate to ASP.NET for its combination of greater functionality combined with greater ease of use.ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials and Code is intended to provide a complete tutorial and reference for existing ASP developers.
The book is laid out in roughly the order you'd want. It starts with the vast difference between the procedural script approach to page creation in classic ASP and the Web control based approach in ASP.NET. You then go on to ASP.NET code techniques, field validation and so on taking in XML usage, error handling, security, browser support and even backward compatibility along the way. It's all extremely thorough with plenty of coded examples. The emphasis on real-world Web-development issues rather than theory is welcome. As is the workshop section at the end of each chapter which gives you a chance to try the material and check your understanding of it.
On the downside, the large number of authors--clearly assigned different sections--result in a book which lacks the continuity you get from a single viewpoint. This occasionally makes it hard to follow. It would have benefited from a more consistently structured approach to topics. However, the technical editing is good.
In many ways ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials and Code is a book ASP.NET developers will want to dip into for information on specific areas rather than to read end to end. New users will do better with Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET In 24 Hours. --Steve Patient
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With a foreword by Microsoft's Mark Anders, Professional ASP.NET consists of 19 chapters written by seven of today's leading experts in ASP.NET. These authors are professional developers who create ASP.NET applications, teach, run well-known ASP.NET Web sites, either within or outside of Microsoft. The tutorial framework for each chapter includes:
- A brief introduction, explaining the concept.
- A code example, illustrating the concept.
- A piece-by-piece explanation of the code.
Most examples employ VB.NET, but there are also additional C# examples within each chapter, and all of the example programs will be available at the book's web site in both VB.NET and C#.
The code examples in this book are based upon the ASP.NET Beta2 specifications, a functionally complete version of the software.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has all the potential of being a very useful offering as both a reference and teaching aid. Turns out it fails on both counts, because of the patchy nature of the chapters. This book cannot by any means be called uniform in quality. There are some excellent chapters and some simply average ones and some complete dogs!
By far and away best are the 2 chapters on Data Manipulation and Presentation, although these are let down by loosed editing - in the form of missing source code listings. As is the chapter on code-behind ("Separating Code from Content"). Also very good, as is the one on XML ("Using XML"), although a single chapter on XML is not going to be sufficient for anyone, but you will be happy to know that the writer of this chapter (Dan Wahlin) has published a book of his own. There are also some rather useful chapters on areas that are usually left out of books of this type, and they deal with Error Handling ("ASP.NET Error Handling") and state management ("Managing State").
The chapters that are really awful and could do worse than being re-written are: "Web Services" and "Application-Level Programming" simply because they simply do not have enough in the way of quality code. One thing that I find quite curious is the chaper on "Enabling Better Browser Support" - which doesn't really have a place in .NET, which aims to reproduce uniform browser behaviour.
All code samples are in VB.NET with some consideration for the C# public, but certainly the source-code is not eqally bi-lingual- which I hope gets addressed in the future.
Overall a good book, although be prepared for some ups and downs in quality.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book takes the attitude towards the reader that they are not an idiot, whilst at the same time taking a simple clean approach to explaining the code it is showing you.
It covers all the topics you could wish to cover in an ASP.NET book with many examples and excellant step by step walk throughs.
I would personally reccomend this book to anyone who is thinking of Starting ASP.NET, it is all you need to start!
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Developers, Add This To You Library
25 Nov 2001
Format:Paperback
As a serious developer, nothing is more valuable than nicely annotated code samples. This 878-page book is packed with code, with server-side code in VB. I bought this book together with Programming Data-Driver Web Applications With ASP.NET by Mack and Seven. (These two are among the authors of this book, Tips, Tutorials, etc.) Between the two I have a nice library to draw on for help on my current .NET development project.
I have found the SAMS Teach Yourself series very useful in spite of their beginner level content. This book is part of a newer series from SAMS (blue spines with glossy photos of the galaxy) that are intended as in-depth resources for professionals. SO far the six that I have rank with the very best professional series from Apress and seem a bit beyond the always timely and usually useful WROX books.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A Must Have Book
7 Feb 2002
Format:Paperback
I have read quite a few of the books out there right now on ASP.NET. There are those that are good reference books like the Wrox Press Professional ASP.NET one, but there are not a lot of books (programming in general) that actually read well and leave you feeling like you could actually implement the ideas after one pass of the material. This is one of those rare books that does that really well. Even if you own some other ASP.NET books, you might want to look at this one. The presentation is fast enough to not be boring, and it has a nice overall flow to it. If you like books that get right into the code, this would make for a good choice. The book does not get extremely deep into all areas, but it would be a bit much to expect one book to do that anyway. If you have programmed in ASP before, I think you will really appreciate the book's perspective.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
The book really stands for the title
17 Dec 2001
Format:Paperback
The book really stands for the title. I found in the book what I was looking for, something to get me started in ASP.NET without it beeing a begginers guide for novice programers. It takes you through every aspect of ASP.NET wich makes some chapters more interesting than others (ADO.NET, XML, Mobile Devices, etc..) almost all the chapters leave you greedy for more (specially passport authentication, webservices, managing state with SQL-Server) but the book is already 837 pages. This is the first time I see ASP.NET covered in every important aspect (web controls, caching and I never saw passport for example).
A mistake was made, by giving the framework sdk in the cd instead of the sample code, wich you can find in a million zip files in the web.
They also failed in telling the sample code is intended to follow your progress in the book. That means you won't see quality code untill chapter 16 (separating code form presentation). I think they made a good desicion, so if your looking for a source of sample code this is the wrong place (Go to the web).
I don't think this will become a reference book for me. As soon as you become proficient in the platform the book becomes shallow but this is the first time i'm happy with a book since i bought "Hitchhiker's guide to visual basic and SQL". This book succeds in having all the Tips, Tutorials and Code you need to get serious into ASP.NET today!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
A mistake was made, by giving the framework sdk in the cd instead of the sample code, wich you can find in a million zip files in the web.
They also failed in telling the sample code is intended to follow your progress in the book. That means you won't see quality code untill chapter 16 (separating code form presentation). I think they made a good desicion, so if your looking for a source of sample code this is the wrong place (Go to the web).
I don't think this will become a reference book for me. As soon as you become proficient in the platform the book becomes shallow but this is the first time i'm happy with a book since i bought "Hitchhiker's guide to visual basic and SQL". This book succeds in having all the Tips, Tutorials and Code you need to get serious into ASP.NET today!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
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