Asp.Net: Development With Macromedia Dreamweaver Mx : Visual Quickpro Guide

By Ryan Parnell and Joel Martinez

Featuring visual aids, this task-based guide shows readers how to use Macromedia's popular Dreamweaver software within the .NET framework to create powerful Web applications. Starting with the basics,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321146425
• ISBN13: 9780321146427
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

You get what you pay for, and that's ok

Visual Quickstart books are an exercise in benefit vs cost. You sometimes don't get as much as you do in some other books, but you also don't pay as much. If you're looking for an introduction on how to use ASP.NET with DW MX, this book will give you your money's worth. If you're really strapped for cash, you can get chapters 4 and 5, which represent the core of the book, from Macromedia's devnet site for free.A couple of reviews mention errors in the book. I've found that DW itself generates bad VB code. The book uses C# in its examples, so if you opted to work in VB you won't have anything in the book to compare your generated output with. You should have enough VB.NET knowledge to recognize bad code when you see it and make the necessary corrections. In fact, I'd say that this book is intended for people who know both DW and ASP.NET and want to learn how the two work together, not for people who know one technology and want to learn the other.The book doesn't deal with ASP.NET code-behind files at all. The authors state that they're a great idea, but because DW doesn't support them directly and they're difficult to integrate, the book won't attempt cover them.

Very good book to help you reach a comfort zone ...

I purchased this book to learn about Dreamweaver MX's development environment, and particularly about ASP.NET development work. Even though my programming language interest is VB.NET, not C#, I still found this book to be very beneficial in helping me to become familiar with Dreamweaver, and also, on how to set up ASP.NET projects. Yes, I must admit the error concerning BindData [should have been DataBind] was annoying, but overall, I like this book, and have no regrets spending the money to purchase it.

Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!

I would recommend this book to anyone!!!! It makes easy work of .NET, and crams a lot of really useful topics into the 310 pages.I bought a 1,000 page book (for twice the price) before I bought this one, and I learned and was inspired 10 000 times more by this little gem than by my other "brick". The book is also written in a very light hearted fashion, that doesn't put you to sleep! My only critisism is that it didn't explain properly how to "deploy" your supporting files into a .dll in your bin directory for the DataSet exercise that ends on page 151. It also didn't explain that you have to install the .NET SDK (which doesn't seem to come with the .NET disks) to run web services successfully, in the final chapters of the book. You have to download the SDK from Microsoft's website and install that first.Other than that though, it's a wonderful book. Well done to the authors. You've got my vote!