Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 208 pages
- Published by: Microsoft Press December 16, 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0735622124
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0735622128
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Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 7.2 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Product Description
With this lively, eye-opening, and hands-on book, all you need is a computer and the desire to learn how to create Web pages now using Visual Web Developer Express Edition! Featuring a full working edition of the software, this fun and highly visual guide walks you through a complete Web page project from set-up to launch. Youll get an introduction to the
Microsoft Visual Studio environment and learn how to put the lightweight, easy-to-use tools in Visual Web Developer Express to work right awaybuilding your first, dynamic Web pages with
Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0. Youll get expert tips, coaching, and visual examples at each step of the way, along with pointers to additional learning resources.
Publisher Description
This engaging, full-color, learn-by-doing guide shows new programmers how to build and customize their first Web pages now! Readers get all the steps, instructions, and
software they need in one package-at a great price.
Key Book Benefits:
This dynamic, full-color, highly-visual book is designed to help novice programmers build fundamental Web-development skills with ASP.NET 2.0-quickly and easily. Provides complete
software for Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and
Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005 Express Edition, plus all the instructions needed to understand and put those tools to work right away.
Features a sample Web page design that can be easily modified and reused: a great learn-by-doing example.
Reader ReviewsI have just completed the excellent tutorials in "Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!" by Patrice Pelland and was looking forward to more of the same with this book. But this is not a tutorial. I had expected that we would be guided from scratch to building the sample website, but instead it is only provided in the complete version, which you can look at to see how things look when they are completed. I had expected to be taken by the hand to create the website. Instead, you learn all about creating empty websites in various locations, copying them, adding or editing text, etc. But the author keeps saying "you can do this or that" rather than having you actually do something specific. The author of the VB book, Patrice Pelland, planned small projects that lead you through almost all the different bits of the program you need, and provides links to even more information. I think Microsoft should ask Pelland to write a new edition of "Build a Web Site Now!" I have given the Web Developer book 2 stars, because it can probably be used as a good reference if you know exactly how you want to create your website. But it is useless for a beginner. I also bought "Beginning Visual Web Developer 2005 Express" by Paul Sarknas, which is much more detailed, but does provide small examples to work with. It doesn't look ideal either, but I'll give it a try. A little addendum: I finally bought VWD for Dummies, which is the perfect book for a beginner. Alan Simpson takes you step by step through the process of making a website in the order you would do things, including creating a blank website while you are planning, so that you can specify "member only" pages and otherwise create the navigation immediately.
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