Beginning Asp.Net 1.1 with Visual C# .Net 2003 Programmer to Programmer: Amazon.co.uk: Chris Ullman, John Kauffman, Chris Hart, Dave Sussman, Daniel Maharry: Books

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This hands–on guide teaches you how to build custom ASP.NET Web sites from the ground up. An expert team of authors uses their extensive ASP.NET programming experience to give you hands–on instruction in the best way to create Web sites with ASP.NET and C#. This completely updated edition features new examples, and all code is written and tested for ASP.NET version 1.1.

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Fast ASP.NET site construction using Microsoft’s new, free Web Matrix tool
How to install and configure ASP.NET
Basic programming principles for C#, such as variables, control structures, and procedural programming
Techniques for applying these principles as you develop ASP.NET pages
The minimum amount of object–oriented programming necessary to work successfully and efficiently with ASP.NET
Key differences between ASP.NET 1.0 and 1.1, how to use the examples in this book with either version, and how to move from 1.0 to 1.1
Techniques for extending your ASP.NET sites to incorporate related tools and technologies, such as using ADO.NET for data source access, Web Services for inter–site communication, and Server Controls to facilitate code maintenance and reuse
How you can make your ASP.NET site production–ready through proper debugging, optimization, and security

Who is this book for?

This book is for beginners who have no previous experience with ASP, C#, XML, object–oriented programming, or the .NET framework. A little knowledge of HTML is useful, but not essential. All the concepts you need to create dynamic ASP.NET Web sites are presented and explained in full.

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This book teaches you how to build custom ASP.NET Web sites from the ground up. An expert team of authors uses their extensive ASP.NET programming experience to give you hands–on instruction in the best way to create Web sites with ASP.NET and C#. This completely updated edition features new examples, and all code is written and tested for ASP.NET version 1.1.

What you will learn from this book

Fast ASP.NET site construction using Microsoft’s new, free Web Matrix tool
How to install and configure ASP.NET
Basic programming principles for C#, such as variables, control structures, and procedural programming
Techniques for applying these principles as you develop ASP.NET pages
The minimum amount of object–oriented programming necessary to work successfully and efficiently with ASP.NET
Key differences between ASP.NET 1.0 and 1.1, how to use the examples in this book with either version, and how to move from 1.0 to 1.1
Techniques for extending your ASP.NET sites to incorporate related tools and technologies, such as using ADO.NET for data source access, Web Services for inter–site communication, and Server Controls to facilitate code maintenance and reuse
How you can make your ASP.NET site production–ready through proper debugging, optimization, and security

Who this book is for

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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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful

An Excellent Book - But There Are Caveats 16 April 2004

By K. Hageman - Published on Amazon.com

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I have always been happy with the Wrox series, and this one is no exception.

The book starts out explaining about .net and getting you up and running with some "Hello World!" stuff and basic controls on a webpage. It then goes into various datatypes and describes some of the fun data structures built into .net and some basic stuff on how to use them. It then explains some basic c# functionality, and goes on to explain the object-oriented nature of it. After this, databases are discussed and how to connect to them. Much of the remainder of the book is spent developing a faux application which explores some of the more complex controls, some useful objects, asp.net security and how to use assemblies.

I found the style of presentation to be very clear. A concept is presented. A try-it-out section is given where you copy the code from the book, using the IDE etc. The code is then gone over line-by-line explaining what is going on.

The .net framework is huge, and I appreciated having this book so that I could learn the most important stuff first. There is so much that the book does not talk about, but it sets your feet correctly at the beginning of the path.

At times I would have liked more depth in the explanations of some of the code - things can get a little hand-wavy and you see stuff that just kind of plops there (why does he cast that object now, when before he didn't?).

But really, you can learn what you need quickly from this.

*Caveats*

1) The book assumes you are using the free WebMatrix IDE from Microsoft. Some others in the same book in VB complained that they got confused when they used Visual Studio. You have been warned.

2) The book claims to be "for beginners who have no previous experience with ASP, C#, XML, object-oriented programming, or the .NET framework. A little knowledge of HTML is useful, but not essential." - This is a joke. You need to know SQL, HTML, and have some kind of programming experience (VB or C++ - I know both) for this book to be useful. You don't have to know them very well, but you do have to have a clue. This book is *NOT* for people trying to create webpages with no previous experience.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful

Professionals Be Warned... 16 July 2004

By Vince - Published on Amazon.com

The examples in this book are built with a free product called WebMatrix. Most (if not all) professionals must use Visual Studio, which is the preferred development environment for all .NET languages. Learning ASP.Net programming without using Visual Studio will only take you half way to your goal.

WebMatrix is also used as the Web Server, so you won't get IIS exposure. If you are a professional, or want to be one, look for a book that uses Visual Studio and IIS.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

Disappointed 29 Mar 2005

By Michael T. Neal - Published on Amazon.com

Unfortunately this book did nothing for me. I was looking for a beginners guide for ASP.Net that would get me started programming with C# while learning the features of .NET. I chose Wrox because I found some of their other books very useful.

This book wastes alot of time on the Web Matrix which is both pretty useless for the beginner and the professional alike. If you are trying to be an ASP.Net professional, Visual Studio would be your choice. And if you are beginner you want to learn how to program the examples in C# rather than using the automated features of Web Matrix.

Basically I am returning the book and will have to find another company to help me in my web development learning process.

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