Pro ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming

By Damon Armstrong

This book shows you how to harness these new features in building websites that tackle real business problems. It provides insight into techniques and practices that help reduce maintenance costs, decrease development time, and manage user perception. It also discusses the business reasoning behind the techniques, not just the technical implementation.

Each chapter identifies a common business requirement - such as managing logins, reporting, data searching and security - and the associated challenges and potential problems. It then goes on to demonstrate an effective ASP.NET 2.0-based solution. The author uses stories from his own experience to really drive home the point that these are real-world problems. Chapters will be presented as independent sections to allow readers to jump back and forth between the specific technologies they find interesting.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590595467
• ISBN13: 9781590595466
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Pro Asp.net 2.0 Website Programming

This book has provided me with endless useful tips on how to write and organize professional Asp.net 2.0 code in Visual Basic 2005. Lots of little nuggets not found in other asp.net 2.0 books. To me this has been indispensable. FYI This won't be the only book you need if you are new to asp.net but it makes an excellent addition and will fill a gap in your libarary if you already have a beginner or intermediate book on the subject. Most Professional and specialized books on asp.net 2.0 are written in C# that's great if your are a C# or Java developer but for professionals like me who write VB.Net don't have time to learn or reinterpret another language before project deadlines. Not all professional applications are written in C# you know! Kudas on a job well done

Authors Comments

After reading through some of the reviews there seems to be some confusion about the book which I assume only comes if you are buying the item online. The tagline for the title is "Learn indispensable tactics for building solid, secure, and maintainable ASP.NET 2.0 applications using Visual Basic 2005." It's fairly difficult to read the tagline on the book unless you magnify the image, so know that the code is written in VB.NET. But if you program in C# you should have no problem picking up the concepts and following the code discussions in the book. Inside the book you will find discussions and code regarding various aspects of web application programming that come up in just about every project. It is not a book specifically for "beginners" because I assume you have some familiarity with development in ASP.NET using VB.NET. If you are a beginner then I recommend picking up my book in conjunction with a true "beginners" book because my book covers more concrete, real world examples of how to do things whereas a beginner's book normally contains examples geared towards training. My examples focus on building reusable and or repeatable processes that save you time, energy, and money. In other words, things that make sense in the business world and are not just academic. Here's a breakdown of the chapters in the book and what you will find: Chapter 1 - Configuration Strategy. Contains an overview of the new configuration tools in ASP.NET 2.0, how to build strongly-typed configuration classes, how to work with custom configuration sections, and how to store configuration settings in a database. Chapter 2 - Exception Management. Contains an overview of exception management concepts and syntax, how to use global error handling in your application, building custom exceptions, handling nested exceptions, and discusses how to effectively capture and log errors for analysis. Chapter 3 - Master Pages, Themes, and Control Skins. Discusses some of the new features of ASP.NET including master pages, dynamically changing master pages in code, nested master pages, and how to work with themes and control skins. Chapter 4 - Developing Reusable Components. Contains information about the new global tag registration and how to develop components using the new ControlState feature. It then delves into an example that demonstrates how to build a custom server control for communicating status and error information to your users in a consistent fashion. Chapter 5 - User Management Tools and Login Controls for Forms Authentication. Discusses the ins and outs of Forms authentication, how to work with the membership and role objects in code, administering members and roles in the Web Site Administration Tool, and a detailed overview of the new ASP.NET 2.0 login controls. Chapter 6 - Managing Profiles. Discusses how to configure and use the new Profile object in ASP.NET 2.0 including how ASP.NET handles anonymous profiles, authenticated profiles, and h

You've got to get this book!

With all due respect to the reviewer who panned the book because, in his opinion, VB is "not the choice of professionals", may I suggest that if the front cover of the book states that it is written using VB, you would do well to expect that it is indeed written in VB. The subtitle specifies "Learn indispensable tactics for building solid, secure, and maintainable ASP.Net 2.0 web applictions using Visual Basic 2005", and Damon accomplishes this goal admirably. As one who has been programming for decades, but am new to the .Net world, I'm very grateful to the author for the splendid job he has done getting the reader up to speed on the essentials of developing a ready-for-prime-time web application. I've spent hundreds of dollars on ASP.Net 2.0 VB books, and you would be hard pressed to find any other one that so clearly lays out how to take full advantage of the built-in 2.0 technology for things like building shopping carts with a minimum of code and integrating them with the supported user profile structure. I work for a small company where I am the entire IT department and the work load is staggering. If you're like me and you need to come up to speed quickly using best practices for 2.0 VB, then you've got to get this book. One more thing I have to say - I was totally amazed by the professionalism of the author. I wrote him with an inquiry, and he obviously spent a chunk of time researching to come up with a same-day gracious response (AND rewrote some of the code in the book, zipped it up, and sent it at 2AM!). Which means that not only is he a first-rate author, but a nice guy as well.

Great resource for all the new features

I hate getting books that cover all the same old topics. This focuses specifically on the new features of ASP.NET 2.0. Perfect. Money well spent. An excellent resource to get up to speed on the changes in ASP.NET 2.0 and a great reference for the shelf.

Excellent book.

I've read 5 or 6 books on asp.net 2.0 and this is by far the best I have read so far. Its concise, its writing style is very easy to read and the author is wrting it from a developers point of view, he doesnt just ryme off the ASP.Net documentation. He gives plenty of little tips along the way, the kind of info you dont get in the documentation. I wish all books could be written this way.