Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5: Step by Step

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 560 pages
• Published by: Microsoft Press February 23, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0735624267
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0735624269
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1.6 inches
• Weighs: 2.5 pounds

Product Description
Get the hands-on, step-by-step guide to learning the latest enhancements in ASP.NET code name Orcas. ASP.NET continues to be an important application platform that delivers a simplified, high-performance, and powerful Web development experience. Building on your familiarity with the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual C#®, you can teach yourself the essentials of working with ASP.NET in the Microsoft Visual Studio® environment one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Whether you re a beginning programmer or new to this version of the technology, you ll understand the core capabilities and fundamental techniques for ASP.NET and begin building practical Web applications and Web services. Includes a companion CD with code samples, data sets, and a fully searchable eBook.


Features easy-to-follow, logically planned lessons to help you learn at your own pace


Delivers a solid understanding of how to use Visual Studio Orcas with ASP.NET to create Web applications and Web services


Includes a companion CD with code samples, data sets, and a fully searchable eBook

About The Author
George Shepherd is a .NET Framework expert who works at Rockwell where he develops some of the best third-party .NET tools available. He has been programming Windows since version 2.0 back in the late 1980s. For the debut of Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) in the early 1990s, George co-authored the definitive reference for MFC, MFC Internals. During MFC s heyday as a powerful user-interface development platform, MFC Internals was part of the canon for serious MFC developers. George covers Web-based and Windows-based interface development with the .NET Framework as a contributing editor for MSDN® Magazine, and is a contributing editor for Dr. Dobb's Journal. He is also a co-author of the classic Microsoft Press® book Programming Microsoft Visual C++®. George regularly delivers seminars with DevelopMentor and is also a popular speaker at industry conferences. In his spare time, George plays a mean slide guitar.

Reader Reviews
Based upon the title, 'Step by Step,' you might think that Shepherd's book will actually cover ASP.NET 3.5 in detail, piece by piece. While it's true that he does this, he does it to very little detail. He also makes numerous assumptions throughout the text, which may have you scratching your head more than you usually would, picking up a new language. As a general overview, this book excels, but search elsewhere, for example, in Spaanjaars' Beginning ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB (Programmer to Programmer), for specifics on how to actually build a site. Overall, I've given this book 4 stars, of 5, since the information is valuable, as an overview. My background: I've been working on the Web for approximately a decade, professionally for half of that. I've got background in PHP and ColdFusion, with enough knowledge to read and tweak classic ASP (however, I think classic ASP is ugly).