| OverviewWhen ASP.NET hit the street a couple of years ago, it was a
real eye-opener. Microsoft's tool for creating dynamic,
server side web applications introduced Web Forms, a feature
with the same rapid drag and drop convenience enjoyed by
Visual Basic developers, along with a method for creating
XML-based web services. ASP.NET was more than an upgrade of
Active Server Pages it was a quantum leap ahead.
Now Microsoft has a new version of ASP.NET as part of its
upcoming next generation release of the Visual Studio .NET
development platform. ASP.NET 2.0 is already available in
beta release, and web developers are anxious to get a good
look at it. That's exactly what our new Developer's Notebook
allows you to do.
More than just an introduction to ASP.NET 2.0, this
practical guide acquaints you with all of the new features
through nearly 50 hands-on projects. Each one places
emphasis on changes in the new release that can increase
productivity, simplify programming tasks, and help you add
functionality to your applications. For example, ASP.NET 2.0
includes master pages, themes, and skins so you can build
applications with a consistent page layout and design. Other
changes allow for the automatic creation of web pages for
use on mobile devices, while wizards and controls allow you
to perform frequent tasks (like data access) without having
to write a single line of code.
ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook
also includes suggestions for further experimentation, links
to on-line documentation, and practical notes and warnings
from the author regarding changes to the new version.
The new Developer's Notebooks series from O'Reilly offers an
in-depth first look at important new tools for software
developers. Emphasizing example over explanation and
practice over theory, they focus on learning by doing you'll
get the goods straight from the masters, in an informal and
code-intensive style. If you want to get up to speed on
ASP.NET 2.0 before its official release, this all lab, no
lecture book will get you there. Editorial Reviews| Book Description | | When ASP.NET hit the street a couple of years ago, it was a real eye-opener. Microsoft's tool for creating dynamic, server side web applications introduced Web Forms, a feature with the same rapid drag and drop convenience enjoyed by Visual Basic developers, along with a method for creating XML-based web services. ASP.NET was more than an upgrade of Active Server Pages it was a quantum leap ahead. Now Microsoft has a new version of ASP.NET as part of its upcoming next generation release of the Visual Studio .NET development platform. ASP.NET 2.0 is already available in beta release, and web developers are anxious to get a good look at it. That's exactly what our new Developer's Notebook allows you to do. More than just an introduction to ASP.NET 2.0, this practical guide acquaints you with all of the new features through nearly 50 hands-on projects. Each one places emphasis on changes in the new release that can increase productivity, simplify programming tasks, and help you add functionality to your applications. For example, ASP.NET 2.0 includes master pages, themes, and skins so you can build applications with a consistent page layout and design. Other changes allow for the automatic creation of web pages for use on mobile devices, while wizards and controls allow you to perform frequent tasks (like data access) without having to write a single line of code. ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook also includes suggestions for further experimentation, links to on-line documentation, and practical notes and warnings from the author regarding changes to the new version. The new Developer's Notebooks series from O'Reilly offers an in-depth first look at important new tools for software developers. Emphasizing example over explanation and practice over theory, they focus on learning by doing you'll get the goods straight from the masters, in an informal and code-intensive style. If you want to get up to speed on ASP.NET 2.0 before its official release, this all lab, no lecture book will get you there. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') | Average Customer Rating: |  | based on 22 reviews. |
| Very Useful For Beginners and Mid-level Developers, 2006-10-18 | | Reviewer rating: |  |
| This is a well-written, easy-to-use book hitting the main points of ASP.NET 2.0. I've never read it cover-to-cover, but have gotten great use from it as a reference manual when I need to quickly figure out how to do something new in ASP.NET 2.0.
The book's laid out in a clear fashion and has a solid index, so it's easy to find the material you need to solve a problem. Each "lab" in the book is task-oriented, so you'll find things like "Create a Master Page for Your Site" which details the steps necessary to accomplish the task. Sections are nicely done and full of tips and tricks, plus there are plenty of short sidebars noting smaller bits of interest such as content pages being limited to having only one master page.
I've found the breadth of coverage quite nice. The author hits everything from Master Pages/Site Navigation to Security to Profiles. There's also a nice section on Performance which talks about site precompilation and caching. (I even nabbed one of the author's labs for one of my talks on .NET -- with attribution, of course.)
The book's very nicely done. It's concise and clear, and I like its style, both content and visual. Some folks might complain about the examples all being in Visual Basic 2005, but as Dr. Phil might say, "Build a bridge and get over it." The labs give you more than enough detail to understand how you need to use the Framework to accomplish tasks, so the particular language used shouldn't be such an issue.
Advanced ASP.NET developers probably won't get a lot out of this unless they're completely new to 2.0, but beginning and intermediate developers should find the book very helpful.
So far this book's been very useful. |
| | good introduction to ASP.NET 2.0, 2006-09-03 | | Reviewer rating: |  |
| This is a pretty good introduction to ASP.NET 2.0 for folks who are already familiar with ASP.NET 1.1. All of the examples are in VB.NET, so if that bothers you, you might want to look elsewhere. I prefer C# myself, so I just rewrote the examples in C# as I went along. That gave me something mildly interesting to do as I worked my way through the book.
The examples in the book are pretty simple and generally just serve to illustrate basic concepts. There's no really interesting code in the book. It's really just a quick way to get through some of the new stuff in ASP.NET 2.0.
One problem with this book is that it was written during the beta phase, and doesn't reflect a few things that changed in the final version of ASP.NET 2.0. There is an update document on O'Reilly's site, and there may be a new printing with those corrections, but I'm not sure about that. |
| | Go Beyond the Basics, 2006-06-19 | | Reviewer rating: | |
| This is a great book for taking your ASP.NET 2.0 skills beyond the basics. Learn valuable skills for improving your web sites such as data caching, partial page caching and lowering the cost of server callbacks. Learn to let your site save user profiles and let users save site themes as a personalized profile; plus lots more.
Where other books just gloss the surface of controls and topics Wei-Meng Lee using a lab notebook approach drills down multiple layers on each topic and in just over 300 pages manages to cover more information than books with 3 times the number of pages; and on almost every page is a URL for additional information. IMHO, this book should be on the bookshelf of every serious ASP.NET developer. |
| | An expensive paperweight, 2006-06-09 | | Reviewer rating: |  |
| I really have not gained anything from this book. I bought the book having extensive 1.1 experience with a bit of 2.0 experience.
The examples are way to simplistic. I can see this book being okay for an absolute beginner, but advanced developers aren't going to gain much.
And all of the examples are in vb.net... *sigh* |
| | Get your hands dirty with 2.0, 2006-04-25 | | Reviewer rating: |  |
| I bought this book after reading a couple of chapters at a local bookstore. It's very hands on, totally gets the job done. I was trying to implement a web application using the new asp.net framework, and it helped me out in all but details which I did not need till later on in the project.
What it will not do: Explain you the intricate differences, eg. at the level of the asp.net worker process in the difference in the way it compiles pages at runtime.
What it will do: Get you completely up and running with the new framework, esp. with a very good chapter about the GridView control. |
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