Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 848 pages
- Published by: Sybex December 5, 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 078214439X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0782144390
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 7.5 x 2 inches
- Weighs: 2.8 pounds
Product Description
Be Right at Home in the World's Most Powerful Web Development Environment For large-scale web application development, Visual Studio 2005 is the most capable product around. This book shows team members and leaders how to use its power in several key dimensions. You'll master dozens of built-in features for creating a large, high-performance website based on ASP.NET 2.0. You'll work seamlessly with dynamic data, both reading from and writing to databases. And throughout, you'll learn how Visual Studio 2005 supports a more efficient group process in terms of design, development, and deployment. And everything is brought together with the enterprise-scale example, "ABC Incorporated," that runs throughout the book. This is a book no web developer, and no web-dependent organization, should be without.
Coverage Includes - Reaping the benefits of master pages and themes
- Generating site maps and other navigational aids automatically
- Building a shopping cart application for your website
- Adding search functionality to your website
- Creating a flexible user environment using Webpart technology
- Increasing application performance using client-side and server-side scripting technologies
- Giving users the ability to change the website's theme to meet specific requirements
- Using components and controls to add special effects and user customization
- Improving team efficiency using modern development and design techniques
- Monitoring and responding to usage statistics
- Combining technologies to get the best possible results from large applications
- Making your site accessible to everyone
Master Standards-Based Web Development Techniques New to Visual Studio 2005
Discover How Visual Studio 2005 Solves Team Development Issues, Such as Source Code Control and Application Design
Simplify Database Application Development without Compromising Security or Reliability
Back Cover Copy
Be Right at Home in the World's Most Powerful Web Development Environment For large-scale web application development, Visual Studio 2005 is the most capable product around. This book shows team members and leaders how to use its power in several key dimensions. You'll master dozens of built-in features for creating a large, high-performance website based on ASP.NET 2.0. You'll work seamlessly with dynamic data, both reading from and writing to databases. And throughout, you'll learn how Visual Studio 2005 supports a more efficient group process in terms of design, development, and deployment. And everything is brought together with the enterprise-scale example, "ABC Incorporated," that runs throughout the book. This is a book no web developer, and no web-dependent organization, should be without.
Coverage Includes - Reaping the benefits of master pages and themes
- Generating site maps and other navigational aids automatically
- Building a shopping cart application for your website
- Adding search functionality to your website
- Creating a flexible user environment using Webpart technology
- Increasing application performance using client-side and server-side scripting technologies
- Giving users the ability to change the website's theme to meet specific requirements
- Using components and controls to add special effects and user customization
- Improving team efficiency using modern development and design techniques
- Monitoring and responding to usage statistics
- Combining technologies to get the best possible results from large applications
- Making your site accessible to everyone
Master Standards-Based Web Development Techniques New to Visual Studio 2005
Discover How Visual Studio 2005 Solves Team Development Issues, Such as Source Code Control and Application Design
Simplify Database Application Development without Compromising Security or Reliability
Reader ReviewsI purchased this book because I suddenly discovered that the personal ecommerce website that I had hoped to do in Macromedia Studio 8 couldn't be done because Macromedia Studio 8 doesn't support ASP.NET 2.0 - and ASP.NET 2.0 has some amazing new functionality that I won't give up to use Macromedia. So I decided I needed to use Visual Studio 2005. I played with Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition for a couple of weeks until Visual Studio 2005 Professional finally arrived. I was very impressed with VWD 2005 Express Edition but it lacks some features that you need for a full function commercial site. I am writing this review before I have gone into this book in sufficient detail to be able to answer my own questions because I feel that other potential buyers should be aware of the issues that I feel need to be resolved. I saw this book and bought it here on Amazon because it seemed that it might have some valuable content on Visual Studio 2005 - and there is very little information available about VS 2005 at this moment except the Microsoft literature. Now I am confused about the book because I really can't determine what product the author was using when he wrote the book. The book is about a product called Microsoft Visual Web Developer - not about either Visual Studio 2005 Professional or Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. It appears that there is valuable content here and although the product he was using was probably pretty close to Visual Studio 2005 Professional the author definitely writes about functionality that I cannot yet find in Visual Studio 2005 Professional. My issue is that I really would like to know up front what functionality that the book covers is not included in VS 2005. Of course it's possible that I will find a hidden configuration option in VS 2005 that will suddenly turn it into Visual Web Developer but in one place in the book the author says that he is writing a book on Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition - but I can't find reference to it anywhere. My guess is that he was writing on an early beta of VS 2005 but that a number of changes have occurred between when he wrote and what is being shipped. I am an optimistic and will give the book 4 stars now because of what appears to be valuable content, but that rating could go up to 5 stars or down to 2 stars depending on how close the material is to what I need to understand Visual Studio 2005 Professional. Also I was bothered by the fact that within 15 minutes after opening the book the binding began to fall apart. I have contacted the author to try and answer this question but as of the writing of this review have not gotten back a response.
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