Beginning ASP.NET 2.0

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 792 pages
• Published by: Wrox November 10, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764588508
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764588501
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.7 inches
• Weighs: 2.6 pounds

Product Review
"right up there with the besta well written, comprehensive and useful beginners guide to ASP.NET 2.0." (www.devcity.net, July 2006)

Product Description

• This updated bestseller gets readers involved immediately with task-oriented examples that can help them build their own sites
• Each chapter is designed to complete a part of the sample Web site, introducing technology topics as required
• Makes extensive use of Microsoft’s new visual ASP.NET development tool, showing readers how to save time and write less code to achieve more results faster
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  The book provides examples in Visual Basic - the easiest language for beginning ASP.NET developers to learn

Reader Reviews
With the 2.0 release it seems that ASP.NET has become ready for prime time. I found the earlier versions so verbose and so demanding that everything be done exactly right that I decided to wait for the next release and it's here. The addition of Visual Web Developer (part of Visual Studio 2005) has rounded out the picture. The use of an IDE like this gives a lot of assistance in speeding up the writing of code. It's a lot better than just using something like Notepad. This book was written with an intent to appeal to people who want to program web applications that can store/display data into/from a database. It will help if you have at least some concept of basic web design with HTML. This book is in tutorial form. It creates a web site for Wrox United (a mythical football team -- if it's mythical I wonder why not Quiddich). The book claims that you can go see the site at [...] but when I went there the domain name was parked waiting for data. The book takes a tutiorial approach to getting the site up (Maybe they're still working through the tutorial.). You're going to spend a lot of time learning ASP.NET, I'd recommend you also getting the Wrox book Professional ASP.NET 2.0 in addition to this one. The two books have an entirely different set of authors, and even when they are talking about the same subject, they use different words. Sometimes just reading different words helps you to understand better. The Professional book is more complete and is in reference format.