ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook

by Wei Meng Lee and Wei-Meng Lee

When ASP.NET hit the street a couple of years ago, it was a real eye-opener. Microsoft's tool for creating dynamic, server side web applications introduced Web Forms, a feature with the same rapid... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596008120
• ISBN13: 9780596008123
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

For Developres - By Developers... Finally

ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook, part of a new series by O'Reilly Media, takes a radically different approach to code-oriented textbooks, and it's about time. O'Reilly has done something wonderful in realizing that most developers simply don't have the time to read through 1200-page books trying to learn every little detail about a subject. Instead, we usually only have a matter of days (hours if we're really unlucky) to learn enough about the language we're using to make the project work. That's what this book is about... getting the job done. This books aims to be the brain of a great developer poured onto paper. You won't find useless chapters on theory or elaborate references of class hierarchies and object properties. What you will find is page after page of hands-on code examples that you can actually use. Topics covered include: * Master pages, themes, and skins for easily creating a consistent look throughout your site * The Web Parts Framework (WPF) for building portal applications * Security and membership controls for managing user authentication * Data access via new data source controls and the GridView component * Performance tuning your site by pre-compiling and fragment caching. ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook is a book for developer's who would rather learn by coding instead of just reading. This is the perfect book for developers familiar with ASP.NET 1.x who're looking to make the jump to ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 without wasting every second of their free time. It throws you into the code immediately, allowing you to learn by example. The code samples are all easy to follow and you can re-use them in your own applications. This is a must-have for anyone trying to learn ASP.NET 2.0. From http://www.codescene.com/2005/12/book_review_aspnet_20_a_develo.php

just what the doctor ordered

just bought this book today and motoring thru it. It is so orentated to a developer, I have been using VB since version3 and have bitten the bullet so I can do more, faster and better with net2.0 Things I liked about the book is that it is thin and its core stuff to 'just make it work'. I can quickly be productive, build on my confidence and know where to learn more 'as and when I need it' and not get saturated with needless feature details. The book does seem to be all lab and is very suitable for those practical/kinesethic types that learn by getting their hands dirty and playing with something - it might not suit people who need to know everything before they start. Also the print style is very easy on the eyes, looks like someone has made margine notes in it and ample space for your own notes to. Wish this was the first book on ASP.NET2 I had bought.

ASP.NET 2.0 Developer's Notebook

I would highly recommend this book to any professionals or developers who wanted to learn the most out of ASP.NET 2.0 in the shortest amount of time. I spent about 2 hours after work to go through each chapter and took me slightly more than a week to complete it. The practical approach for the exercises in this book is simply fabulous! Not only I got to learn about the the concepts but i get a lot of chances to try out these concepts on my home computer! I personally like the chapters on Web Parts and Data Access!! Great demos and exercises covered in these 2 modules. Thanks Wei Meng !!!

Nice Overview of What ASP.NET 2.0 Offers

ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook for any programmer that wants to jump right in and discover what v2.0 has to offer. For anyone that is looking for an ASP.NET 2.0 reference book, this isn't what you are looking for. If you want a guide that will give you and overview of all the neat new features of what MSFT's newest set of toys gives you, this is a great guide. The Author breaks the book into the major new parts of what ASP.NET brings to the table, highlighting the following topics: - Improved posting to self pages and other pages - Improved validation routines in 2.0 - Creating image maps with ADO.NET - Creating master pages for a web site (very cool) - Using TreeView controls on your page - Adding drop-down menus to your site - Using Web Parts to separate content on your pages - Learning how GridView replaces DataGrid for viewing data - Improved data caching with 2.0 - XML communication all throughout ASP.NET (how-to) - Improved security in 2.0 These are just the major points that I have gotten out of this book, and it's quite a bit. Again, if you are looking at this book as a reference, this isn't what you are looking for. There are examples of all these topics, but the Author expects that you have some ASP and/or ASP.NET experience if you are using this book. This book is meant to be a "notebook" where it quickly gets to the heart of the matter, instead of dragging on and on and that's exactly what the user does. For existing ASP.NET developers or any web developer who wants to learn why .NET is the present and future of web development, this is a great guide to learning all the new tricks that the wizards at Microsoft have come up with. I recommend this book to all web developers and I think you will find it extremely useful in your web careers. ***** RECOMMENDED

This book has the right stuff

ASP.NET 2.0: A DEVELOPER'S NOTEBOOK By Wei-Meng Lee Published by O'Reilly ISBN 0596008120 Reviewed by Steven Mullins-HuNTUG member Well let me say this was so chocked full of stuff I am still trying some of the tips and examples even after a month of reading it all the way through. This has been the first book on .NET that has really shown the web page building that can be done. This has been a great read for the point of building a web space there are so many examples that is hard to keep up with all of them. This book really surprised me with the chapter 5 (Security), the last three of four books I have read or looked over have had very little to say about security and this was broken down from simple log-on to using the WAT (Website Administration Tool) to add users and even how to hash passwords. One last thought was how well this book flowed; there are a lot of books that make it so that you have to do all the exercises in sequence to get the examples to work but with the O'Reilly books you can go straight to the chapter you want to work on and go right to it, that one point has made my last few book selections rather easy. O'Reilly has the right stuff when it comes to real life work to get done.