Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 with C#

by David Sussman, John Kauffman, Chris Hart, et al.

ASP.NET 2.0 is an amazing technology that allows you to develop web sites and applications with very little hassle, and its power and depth enable it to host even the most complex applications... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470042583
• ISBN13: 9780470042588
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 735 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good Starter

This is a great book for getting started with ASP.Net. Every chapter is filled with codes to try along with the CD to help you out. Does not cover everything but that would be impossible in one book.

Excellent seller

Book arrived very quickly and in excellent condition. Would definitely purchase from this seller again. Thanks!

5/5 for beginners like myself, some drawbacks

Overall, this is an excellent book for beginners like myself. After going through this book I felt confident in my abilities as an ASP.NET 2.0 developer, and it made excellent use of Visual Web Developer 2005. The idea behind this book is great, have the person learning the language and technology go through making an entire website. However, for me there were a few things that bugged me about this process of making the website. It was sometimes annoying that at certain parts it was hard to keep track of what EXACTLY I was doing while "creating" the website. There might be a sentence here and there where you get confused. Still, for the most part the book does a very good job explaining the coding that you did, as well as covering the important things in depth. I like the process the beginner goes through and I think it's the best book for beginning ASP.NET 2.0 with C# out there. It doesnt get the best rating from me because it could have used a bit more editing. Definitely worth the money.

A excellent beginners book and much more!

This book really hits the spot. It's a great beginner's book, but it's more than that. They don't teach you the bad habits that some beginner's books teach, and they don't shy away from some of the harder matters that are important to a typical web developer. Although not considered an advanced book, I think this will take you all the way up to the middle level, and then some. If you're reading this and you don't feel comfortable designing a web page or web site in ASP.NET 2.0, then you need to buy this book now! There's also a VB.NET edition of this book for developers who prefer VB over C#.

Great ASP.NET book!

With Microsoft's update to ASP.NET to version 2.0, everybody is getting re-excited with this stable web development framework from Microsoft. It seems every publisher is updating their existing ASP.NET 1.1 books with just the new features of the latest version. But not this book... This book gives a great introduction to what ASP.NET is and what advances are available with the latest version. The whole goes through every aspect of ASP.NET 2.0 basics in developing an interactive, database-driven website (WROX United Applciation). Reviewing it this way really gives the reader how all the features of ASP.NET and what can really been done with it, instead of just explaining different topics individually. The next chapter reviews the basics of site design and how to setup your ASP.NET pages with one of the big features of ASP.NET 2.0 with is Master Pages. The next chapter continues from Chapter 2 with the design attributes of the site and goes into greater detail of using Visual Studio 2005 in some great explanations of what dynamic content is. The next couple chapters explain sing memberships, themes (new ASP.NET 2.0 feature), events (new events in ASP.NET 2.0), and a 2 great chapters (7 and 8) on reading and writing data using web controls. One of the most powerful features of ASP.NET (both versions) are the web controls (design and data). These controls provide instant functionality to displaying, formatting, storing data from the user or from a datasource. This book assumes no experience in programming in C# or Visual Studio 2005 and starts from the basics to really teach the reader how to create your dynamic web site. A great book from WROX for getting people up to speed on ASP.NET 2.0 for the beginner or the ASP.NET 1.1 user who needs refreshing on the latests features.