- Paperback: 960 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (8 Feb 2002)
- Language French
- ISBN-10: 0596001711
- ISBN-13: 978-0596001711
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 11.7 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,321,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Chunky and detailed, Programming ASP.NET is a hands-on guide to Microsoft's Web development technology. It is a huge subject, and at over 900 pages, this is longer than most O'Reilly titles. With support for Web services as well as dynamic Web sites, ASP.NET is the most impressive part of Microsoft's .NET Framework, but developers familiar with the old Active Server Pages have much to learn. This title begins at the beginning with "Hello World," but goes well beyond the basics by providing in-depth examples and explanations. There is some coverage of Visual Studio .NET, but most of the content is equally applicable to those who prefer to use straight code editors. There are extensive code examples, almost too many, with most given in both Visual Basic and C#. Some of the code is repetitive, and at some points shorter, more specific examples would help the book's flow and reduce its bulk.
The early chapters introduce the ASP .NET architecture and cover the event model, the different control types, debugging and the essentials of Web Forms. The chapters that follow tackle database development, including validation, data binding, programming ADO .NET and managing transactional data updates. This accounts for two-thirds of the book. The last third tackles Web services both as client and server, caching and performance optimisation, security, and application deployment. A bug database is used throughout as an example application.
Overall the authors do a great job of covering ASP .NET essentials, somewhat slanted towards database applications. The book has a real-world feel to it and does not skim over problem areas. It is nicely written, and working through the examples is a good way both to learn ASP .NET, and to get a feel for what it can do. --Tim Anderson
Jason Salas, guam-asp.net, March 2002
I don't normally use a ratings system, but if I did, this would have been 4.5 out of 5... This book is a "must buy" for development enthusiasts.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As an ASP/VB programmer looking to update I didn't find this book very useful. I usually find O'Reilly books to be nothing less than excellent, so this was a big let down.
The book is heavily padded with project code - not just snippets that illustrate a point, but multi-page blocks of the stuff. In one example given, the code was over 8 pages. All with no CD :(
Would have been better at half the length, with much more carefully chosen examples.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is ideal for someone whom has no experience with NT technologies (bar as Windows user). It touches on all of the ASP.NET technologies namely, IIS, SQL Server, ADO.NET, Stored Procedures and ASP.NET with pages dedicated to the fundamentals of each.
The book utilises a small(ish) scale "Bug Tracking" application to spoon feed the use of methods in a practical sense for the beginner. There is a lot of beneficial code and each chapter builds on the existing examples to give the reader a complete picture of a full project life cycle, from creating a blank project in VS.NET all the way to deploying it in a production SQL Server environment.
The 2nd Edition of this book is marketed with developing on Visual Studio .NET IDE which speeds up the learning curve to become industry ready. The down side is that you tend not to learn the ins and outs of .NET as VS.NET handles monotonous tasks for you.
Seeing as there are so many additional IDEs out there (as of Sept 2005; SharpDevelop, Web Matrix and Visual Web Developer 2005) the book would benefit from only loosely referring to VS.NET usage.
You can tell by reading the paragraphs that the book is aimed for developers very new to NT technologies, you'll find when reading that most of points the authors are trying to get across are mentioned 2-3 times, this followed by pages of similar code makes for a slow read.
Some of the most notable chapters within are that of Events (Chapter 3), Tracing and Debugging (Chapter 7), Data Binding (Chapter 9) in particular the Binding to a Class section, Web Services (Chapters 15,16 and 17) and Caching (Chapter 18). The authors took a risk by introducing ASP.NET Events early on in the book (Chapter 3), it would have been nice to split this chapter into two, an introduction and later on, a chapter with a more in depth look at Events.
O'Reilly's Programming ASP.NET is a nice compliment to anyones ASP.NET book shelf, I'd hint that this book is more for a total beginner and for someone with previous coding experience should opt for something more in depth.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I must disagree with the other reviewers.
Although I have been using .NET for a while, it provided an excellent introduction to ASP.NET. The complexity of some of the controls such as the DataList is difficult to get your head around, but this book really explains it well. Also the chapters on state management, security, forms vs. windows authentication are really well explained.
The other thing I look for in a book is the longevity. This book is also a great reference. It is well organised, the index is very clear and precise (what's more irritating than an incomplete index?!) and my copy is getting to the stage where it will soon need to be replaced.
Examples are in both C# and VB.NET. In any case, if you're going to be a .NET developer, you'd better be comfortable with both because you're going to constantly run into them.
You could do much worse than buy this book. If you buy only one ASP.NET book, make it this one.
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PROGRAMMING ASP.NET
FASCINATING BOOK. COVERS MAJOR ASPECTS OF UK TECHNOLOGY, COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, AND COMPUTING LANGUAGES (INCLUDING INTER-RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN OTHER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND... Read more
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Clear, inteligently-written book
I came at this book as an experienced UNIX developer but with no experience whatsoever of the .NET development environment. This was the first . Read more
Published on 21 July 2005 by Graeme Harker
Not bad, but
Allthough I found this book informative, I thought it could have been better.
The style was a bit scrappy and it felt like more than one person had authored it - for a minor... Read more
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