Book Description
This comprehensive compendium provides a broad and thorough investigation of all aspects of programming with ASP.NET. Entirely revised and updated for the Golden Release of .NET, this book will give you the information you need to master ASP.NET and build dynamic, successful, enterprise Web applications.
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In this book, we:
Explain what ASP.NET is, and how it makes building applications even easier
Show how easy it is to work with ASP.NET pages and server-side controls
Access data of all kinds in our ASP.NET pages, and introduce ADO.NET
Examine how XML is an integral part of data manipulation
Use Web Services to provide asynchronous background services to applications
Discuss and demonstrate the ASP.NET application framework
Show how easy it is to build and deploy custom ASP.NET controls
Combine the concepts discussed in the book into an ASP.NET application
Discuss how it is possible to migrate from ASP to ASP.NET
From the Publisher
This book is aimed at experienced ASP developers who are working at the leading edge, rather than the casual ASP developer or beginner. For example, we do not cover the basics of COM, ASP, or the programming languages we use in this book.
You don't need to be experienced with ASP to make the most of this book although being relatively comfortable with ASP concepts with certainly help. This book is also ideal for Visual Basic developers who want to make the move into Web application design. You should also understand the general principles of the use of components, and have knowledge of Visual Basic (or VBScript). Some of the samples are written in other languages, such JScript and C#, but you don't need to be fluent in these languages to be able to use this book.
