Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 600 pages
- Published by: Wrox Press
- Edition: 1st Edition April 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1861004923
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1861004925
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Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 7.1 x 1.7 inches
- Weighs: 2.4 pounds
Product Description
This book will inspire you with a range of ideas on how data can be used to drive Web applications, and how that data can be most effectively utilized at each level of the design. Inefficient data use leads to the sort of slow, unresponsive Web applications that nobody enjoys using. By making good use of both server and client-side code, we can solve these problems. This book will arm you with the techniques you need to build Web applications that fly.
The book is a voyage of exploration through almost all aspects of building ASP.NET applications that handle data and work across the Internet (or other HTTP networks, such as local Intranets). It takes a practical approach to building task-specific components, Web pages and Web applications based on a server running ASP.NET. The book focusses on n-tier architecture design and the way it can be coded, using SQL Server as a data source and simple Web server hardware.
The ASP.NET code in this book is presented in VB.NET, while client-side code is presented in JavaScript. A C# version of the code is also available for download from the Wrox website along with the VB.NET.
This book will cover: * The new .NET philosophy for managing relational and XML data
* The techniques you need to make this philosophy work in the real world
* Solid, n-tier architecture design
* Using the .NET data management classes to access and update a data store
* Maintaining data integrity by efficiently resolving concurrency errors
* Techniques for building reusable, task-specific data tier components
* How to design applications to exploit many different kinds of client device
Publisher Description
ASP.NET is a huge advance from previous incarnations of ASP, with one of its goals being pure HTML output that achieves maximum cross-browser compatibility. The server-side event architecture tends to engender this approach, but amid the first flush of excitement it's often forgotten that there's still a place for rich clients, and handling data in a multitude of places. Distributed data-driven applications aren't new, but the range of possibilities and ease of development have both increased with the introduction of .NET.
This book concentrates on the use of ASP.NET for building applications for Internet or Intranet use, and looking at the possibilities that rich clients brings to both application design and a better user experience. There often appears to be confusion over how the new .NET data management and page-processing models fit into the overall distributed application architecture, how it changes this, and how it provides exciting new opportunities. So we spend some time exploring the whole architecture and design issue, and see how it can be addressed in different ways.
Reader Reviews... The Good There are a lot of things to like about this book if your main interest is in data driven applications that require many remote devices to be able to update data on a central server, possibly after being disconnected for some period of time. I've personally skirted such projects several times in my ASP3 consulting days, but thankfully never had to build one, mainly because at that time the infrastructure was not there to support such applications within the budgets of my clients. Today, however, that's changed, and I think we will see more and more commercial applications being written that use the kind of distributed data techniques described in this book. In addition to the source code files and a other resources available on the website, the authors have also set up several live examples from their book. This is something I wish more books would do, since I think it really helps readers to be able to see examples from the book in action. Especially since so many book examples don't work, so seeing them working on a live server helps to reassure the user that the code does in fact work. Obviously, this works best if the source for the online examples is also available, and for this book, it is. ...
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