Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781590594315
Edition: 1
ISBN: 1590594312
Label: Apress
Manufacturer: Apress
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1040
Publication Date: November 01, 2004
Publisher: Apress
Studio: Apress
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The most up-to-date and comprehensive introductory ASP.NET book you'll find on any shelf, Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 in C# guides you through Microsoft's latest technology for building dynamic websites. This book will enable you to build dynamic web pages on the fly, and it assumes only the most basic knowledge of C#.
Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 in C# provides exhaustive coverage of ASP.NET, guiding you from your first steps right up to the most advanced techniques, such as querying databases from within a web page and performance-tuning your site. You'll find tips for "best practices" and comprehensive discussions of key database and XML principles you need to know in order to be effective with ASP.NET. The book also emphasizes the invaluable coding techniques of object orientation and code behind, which will start you off on the track to build real-world websites right from the beginning&emdash;rather than just faking it with simplified coding practices.
By the time you've finished the book, you will have mastered the core techniques and have all the knowledge you need to begin work as a professional ASP.NET developer.
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I didn't know much about ASP.NET and C#, although I have done some junior-level programming projects with other languages. Based on rave reviews, I originally tried Jesse Liberty's Programming ASP.NET book, but I could not digest that book due to its lack of gradual buildup, lack of connecting ideas, and obscure examples.
Matthew MacDonald's book "Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 in C#: From Novice to Professional," on the other hand, is very well-suited for a beginning programmer. As with many other beginner's language books, he covers the C# language syntax and common ASP.NET controls. However, he covers advance topics such as state management and caching.
He also covers ancilliary topics such as Visual Studio explanations, files that make up a VS Solution or project (i.e. what is web.config?), and setting up your computer to run ASP.NET.
He writes in a way that is easy to follow, and his examples are not obscure, but straightforward. He focuses primarily ... Read More
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If you want to make dynamic web pages and your machine is running .NET, then perhaps the best way is to use Active Server Pages. This actually predates .NET. But with the rise of .NET and its main language, C#, MacDonald shows how ASP.NET 1.1 has gained in power and ease of use.
He takes 1000 pages to show this. Because Microsoft now offers a huge amount of functionality in ASP.NET and extensive integration into .NET. Like how Visual Studio can [should?] be used as your IDE to write C# code for your ASPs. By the way, despite what Microsoft has touted about how you have a choice of programming languages if you use .NET, it has become increasingly clear, via this book and others, that C# is the de facto choice.
Chapters 7, 9, 10 and 11 are probably the key sections of the book. These actually focus on coding the ASP. And of these, chapter 10, on state management, may be the focal point, if you consider a set of ASPs as a finite state machine. So if you want to quickly ... Read More
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This is simply the best book I've found for starting out with ASP.NET from a C# perspective, and I plan to use it to teach ASP.NET in the classroom. In my opinion, there are three things that put this book head and shoulders above the rest:
1) Clear explanations of WHY things work the way they do. For example, the detailed walkthrough of the postback architecture is essential for ASP.NET newcomers.
2) Lots of good recommendations and examples. The chapter of component development is a particularly good example. In a relatively small space, the author covers stateless design, describes the "ideal" component, and outlines common design issues that programmers face in real world situations, all without getting too complex or using more than a couple of paragraphs of code at a time. The IBuySpy walkthrough it another great example.
3) It has a little bit of everything. This book won't send the newbiew to other books in the first few pages. It covers "just enough" OOP, Visual ... Read More
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This is a tome sized introduction to ASP.NET using C#. It goes from installation, through the C# language, into web forms and control, database access, web services and into advanced topics like caching, security and component building. And all of that is stuffed into a one thousand page frame.
As you can imagine, some of the material is a little short. For example the coverage of C#, which is intended for beginners, is a mere 50 pages. Other sections, like those on web controls, and the references at the end, are well apportioned to the topic.
The database section has significant technical flaws. It uses string construction to inject GET and POST variables into the SQL statement. This is an anti-pattern which can lead to bugs, SQL injection attacks, and poor cache performance. Do not use the SQL construction techniques in this book
The book also overuses screenshots and is light on architectural illustrations.
There are some good parts. The chapter ... Read More
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