Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005: From Novice to Professional

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Purchase this book and you'll get the free, fully searchable eBook--a $25 value! (Details are printed inside the book.)

I was pleasantly surprised by both the clarity and depth that author Matthew MacDonald provides.

— Mike Riley, asp.netPRO, July 2006

Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005: From Novice to Professional steers you through the maze of ASP.NET web programming concepts. You will learn language and theory simultaneously, mastering the core techniques necessary to develop good coding practices and enhance your skill set.

This book provides thorough coverage of ASP.NET, guiding you from beginning to advanced techniques, such as querying databases from within a web page and performance-tuning your site. You'll find tips for best practices and comprehensive discussions of key database and XML principles.

The book also emphasizes the invaluable coding techniques of object orientation and code-behind, which will enable you to build real-world websites instead of just scraping by with simplified coding practices. By the time you finish this book, you will have mastered the core techniques essential to professional ASP.NET developers.

Customer Reviews:

A very good book for anyone who wants to learn ASP .NET.......2006-11-10

I bought this book after someone had recommended it on a discussion forum. And that person was right. This book is perfect for the person who wants to learn ASP .NET using C# language. It covers almost every aspect of ASP .NET and C#. It's straight to the point with good examples. It requires some basic knowledge of programming, so if you are a begginer programmer and want to learn ASP .NET and the C# language buy this book.

Incorrect Code .......2006-10-27

When I first started to work with this book I was actually impressed. The author seemed to be clear and easy to understand. But once we started getting into code the whole thing started falling apart. The code samples in the book frequently just dont work. From typo's which are easy to find to entirely left out concepts and sections of necessary code. At first in the more basic section of the book it's not so bad because the programs are simple and its usually fairly easy to figure out where the mistake was. But the further in you get and the more complex the code becomes the worse it gets. In some samples short of opening up his own downloadable sample code and looking at where his sample code is completely different from what he is telling you to do in the book it is virtually impossible for a beginner to the language to figure out.

Now me I'm just stubborn so I stick with it until I figure it out but I frequently have to go to outside sources and chat groups to try and figure out what the problem is which in my opinion just shouldn't be the case in a well thought out book. Maybe if it was a professional book where the user is suppose to have some knowledge it would be acceptable. But for a beginner to have to try and figure out entire concepts and classes that are missing entirely from the examples and are vital to the successful implimentation of the code. Well that is just unacceptable. Its sloppy and a book that costs 49.99 ought to be free of such errors.

Ambitious but left me wanting..........2006-07-24

I had a mixed reaction to this book. It's obvious that Mr. MacDonald is quite knowledgeable, but I think this book chews off a bit more than it can swallow. It was all there, but I don't know if a beginner would have the patience to read this book cover to cover. As a "Beginning ASP.NET" book it has a very cursory overview of programming basics, object oriented programming, .NET Framework including the Basic Class Library (BCL formerly the FCL) and the CLR. There's an introduction to Visual Studio 2005 and C#.

It is over 1,000 pages, but I'm not sure that a beginner reading this book could successfully write a solid web application when they were done. I think the book would have been more successful if it helped you build an application in a step-by-step fashion, explained and introducing specific concepts. The organization of the chapters was also a little awkward. There's a discussion of modifying web.config settings programmatically in the web form fundamentals chapter before really getting into web site configuration. Tracing, logging and error handling is discussed I think a little too early.

This was an ambitious endeavor, but I wish it would have covered less, but in more depth.

The best book out there.......2006-06-20

I have read many books on ASP.NET, by far this book is the most well organized, user friendly book that will teach you ASP.NET

I disagree with posts that says that this book is not for the novice. It takes you step by step from a subject to a subject and keeps you intrested in reading the book.

This is my first book ever that I realy said to myself that I will have to take the time and write a review on a book.

So far, so great........2006-06-01

While I have only read around 200 of the 1000 pages in this book, I must say it is everything I expected and more. I would suggest having a general understanding of the syntax of Java or C/C++ before reading, but if you have no programming experience at all you could probably work through the initial learning curve.

The author covers most of the C# fundamentals as well as explaining why there is a need for ASP.NET. This is not a book for someone who simply wants to learn the basics of .NET 2.0 (for that, I suggest Bill Hatfields ASP.NET 2.0 for Dummies), but this is the meat, potatoes, and gravy of the framework. Matthew MacDonald explains the "whys" of the techniques he presents as well as the "hows", without being wordy or overly complex. Because of this, I find it hard to put this book down.

So far, there has not been much explanation of (X)HTML or CSS, because this book is more focused on development rather than design. While you don't need to know the intricate details of HTML or CSS to use .NET, you should have at least a basic understanding if you expect to create decent looking webpages. (There are so many resources for XHTML and CSS...try w3cshools.com for starters.)

I am a working web designer who has a need to begin developing in ASP.NET, so I knew I needed an in depth book like this. If you are unsure if .NET is right for you, I recommend reading a lighter book, such as Bill Hatfield's ASP.NET 2.0 for Dummies, before tackling what will probably be at least a two month course in learning the framework.

The only flaws I have seen in the first 200 pages are subtle, such as using the the "b" tag for bold instead of the current standard, "strong". That may be nitpicking, but I must point it out.

This book is perfect for someone who knows they want to create websites in ASP.NET, understands the basic concepts of OOP, has an intermediate knowledge of HTML and CSS design principals, and is willing to take the time to practice the examples demonstrated in the text.

Beginning ASP .NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005: From Novice to Professional

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Excellent book
Essential Book for ANY E-Commerce .NET 2.0 Developers!!!
Great ASP.Net 2.0 E-Commerce Primer/Reference
Great book
a v. gud asp.net 2.0 intro book

Beginning ASP .NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005: From Novice to Professional
Cristian Darie , and Karli Watson
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ASIN: 1590594681

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With the latest incarnations of ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005, programming dynamic data-driven websites with Microsoft technologies has become easier and much more efficient than ever before. Fewer mouse clicks and fewer lines of code can now enable more powerful features and the tools you need -- Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Editions and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition -- are free!

In this book you'll learn how to best use the free development tools offered by Microsoft to build an online product catalogue with shopping cart, checkout, product searching, product recommendations, a control panel, customer accounts, order processing and much much more. You'll learn how to handle payments by integrating PayPal, DataCash and VeriSign Payflow Pro into your site. We'll also teach you how to expand your site's product listing by expanding your product section through web services.

Each feature you add to your website will introduce you to new challenges and theoretical concepts, which are carefully analyzed and explained throughout the book. You will gain an intimate understanding of every piece of code you write. This understanding will enable you to build your own powerful and flexible websites efficiently and rapidly with ASP.NET 2.0.

You can visit a demonstration version of the site built in this book by visiting the author's website.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent book.......2007-09-06

It's an excellent book, the book teaches you how to develop a site in three layers (presentation, business and data) in my ishe goal of this book.

Essential Book for ANY E-Commerce .NET 2.0 Developers!!!.......2007-02-09

'Beginning ASP .NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005: From Novice to Professional' by Cristian Darie and Karli Watson is one of the most unique and important books out there for anyone that is developing an E-Commerce site with ASP.NET 2.0. Starting from scratch, the authors step by step show you how to get a site running and WORKING well and efficient. Packed with 650+ pages of material, the authors break the steps down in logical parts, show how they go about the work to be done, and then provide the code which does the dirty work. Not only is it helpful, but it's a joy to follow the steps as so much of the curtain is pulled away to show the developer how to get the job done. This is easily one of my favorite Apress books that I have seen. One of the nicest things about the Apress line of books is the fact that they write and publish books that no one else seems to and this is a perfect example of this. I'll close with a chapter overview for your inspection:

01. Starting off
02. Laying Out the Foundation
03. Creating the Product Catalog: Part I
04. Creating the Product Catalog: Part II
05. Searching the Catalog
06. Improving Performance
07. Receiving Payments Using PayPal
08. Catalog Administration
09. Creating a Custom Shopping Cart
10. Custom Orders
11. Making Product Recommendations
12. Adding Customer Accounts
13. Advanced Customer Orders
14. Order Pipeline
15. Implementing the Pipeline
16. Credit Card Transactions
17. Integrating with Amazon

Tack on 2 appendixes to the end and you have a MUST-HAVE book for anyone that is looking to achieve the same goals that this books does!!

***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Great ASP.Net 2.0 E-Commerce Primer/Reference.......2006-11-10

This book covers it's topic E-Commerce very well. It also takes advantage of the new features found in ASP.Net 2.0 including some of the new ADO features. If you are getting ready to setup an E-Commerce site I highly recommend this book. I also recommend it for beginning developers wanting to know more about ADO and database design.
The authors have a great approach to design that anyone doing E-Commerce would do well to follow. Better yet they mention the pros and cons of different approaches and explain why they chose their approach. I've been thrilled to learn some new strategies to improve performance that I hadn't considered before as well as some new features in ASP.Net and ADO 2.0 that I wasn't aware of.
The only negative, for me, is the database as well as ADO basics this book spends many pages covering. However there's plenty of worthwhile content to justify the price. So if you are familiar with database design and have a working knowledge of ADO you can just skip past those pages. I do recommend you skim thru them though as, like me, you may learn some new 2.0 features you weren't aware of.
The book covered all my E-Commerce questions: catalog design, how to scale up/performance considerations, SSL, Security issues, credit card processing, and costs involved. They even point you in the direction of a few recommended credit card processing businesses. Best of all they approach the site creation in such a way you can quickly get up and going and then later on focus on fine tuning payment options and really making the site standout with features.

Great book.......2006-09-13

It is cover a lot of great part of asp.net 2.0. It is easy to understand and implement. Some code is very profession and hard to understand. Most of them cover SQL,ASP,WEB service,security issue.I will say it is the cool part of ASP.net. You can see author spend a lot of time to collect the beauty of asp.net. You will like it no matter how many time you read the book.

a v. gud asp.net 2.0 intro book.......2006-07-20

This would be the best book for introducing someone new to asp.net 2.0. The book is very practical and does it job
educating the idiot like the beginning word suggests in its title. I have notice in later chapters 8 onwards where the author refers to a control when the code is hard coded into
the aspx page. This can be confusing in a beginner book.
I felt that the authors did not do justice by giving partially completed code from chapter 12 onwards. My motivation kind of died after that since there was alot of compilation errors and so forth for a beginners book. It is hard to understand how the other reviewers where able to get the rest of the code running without going through the same problems that I am having.
Unfortunately like other programmers I don't have time to debug author's code.

Beginning Visual C# (Programmer to Programmer)

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Excellent for beginners
Best VISUAL C# book
Beginning Visual C# (Programmer to Programmer)
If you don't want to work the basics--this is not for you
Very Detailed and Enjoyable Book!

Beginning Visual C# (Programmer to Programmer)
Karli Watson , David Espinosa , Zach Greenvoss , Jacob Hammer Pedersen , Christian Nagel , Jon D. Reid , Matthew Reynolds , Morgan Skinner , and Eric White
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What is this book about?

With Beginning Visual C#, you will learn how to use Visual C# from first principles. Visual C# is an object-oriented programming language designed specifically for programming Microsoft's new platform, the .NET Framework. You'll quickly and easily learn how to write Visual C# code and create your own applications — for both Windows and the Web.

What does this book cover?

With clear explanations and hands-on examples, you will learn about the following topics:

The C# language from the ground up
Designing and writing object-oriented programs
.NET programming with C#
Working with Windows forms and controls
Creating graphics and printing
Accessing databases and files
Writing web application and web services in Visual C#

This book will be an indispensable guide as you learn to write C# programs, gradually explaining the key concepts of Visual C# and .NET as your skills develop, with exercises at the end of chapters to test yourself. Starting with a thorough tutorial of the Visual C# language and object-oriented programming, you will progress to learn how to apply your understanding to programming the .NET Framework.

Who is this book for?

Beginning Visual C# is ideal for beginners with little background in programming, and for relatively inexperienced programmers who want to move from a language that doesn't support object-oriented programming techniques. The book moves at a fast enough pace that if you have programmed in another language, then you will still find the book valuable.

What do you need to use this book?

Note that Beginning Visual C# requires you to have access to either Visual Studio .NET or Visual C# .NET Standard Edition.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent for beginners.......2006-10-06

I come from a C++ and Java background and have NEVER worked in C# before. This book is the best investment I've made in a while. It helps you lay an excellent groundwork and builds up to an industry-level standard of programming complexity. A unique, & may I say bonus, advantage is the excellent introduction to the Visual Studio environment which, otherwise, can seem to be very daunting.

Best VISUAL C# book.......2006-04-08

this books provides the basic of c# programming knowledge.
i'm a student that just start IT course and I think that this book suit for me.. as it is easy to be understand..

the part that i dont like at this book is the first 12 chapters. I skipped it as that one is console-based.. i first read the chapter 14-24.. after i've read the chapter 14-24 then i just start to read the chapter 1-12... (for me the chapter 1-12 is not for beginner.. the chapter that will be the foundation is chapter 13!!)

i like the part of how did they give the example and guide .. overall this book is the best visual c# book... compared with teach urself c# in 21days.. (i bought wrox book first before i bought the teach urself c#)

Beginning Visual C# (Programmer to Programmer).......2005-07-09

As a programmer new to the C# language this book provided structured and informative examples that allowed me to learn and produce code fast.

If you don't want to work the basics--this is not for you.......2004-11-04

I don't comprehend the criticism of this book where the complaint implies the instruction within is too meager. There are twenty-four chapters, eight hundred forty-four pages and it's not fluff. It is an excellently structured "Beginner Level" book which lays a foundation over a broad expanse of C# territory. Each chapter explains principles, leads you through hands-on examples, recaps where the principles are implemented in the examples and then tests your comprehension with exercises at the end.

C# is not a casual topic and this book is not a casual read. You gain great insight when you work the code examples and answer the exercises provided. Between my workday and playtime, it took me three months to complete this book, cover to cover. I am confidant with the basics, such as ADO.NET, ASP.NET or XML handling, to investigate more advanced, specialized C# books now.

Finally, a change of publishers did cause the answers to the chapter review exercises to disappear from the web for a good while. But they're in the Peer-2-Peer forum at the WROX website now, listed under this book title as the topic.

Very Detailed and Enjoyable Book!.......2004-07-16

I've bought many C-Sharp books and I must say., this book is awesome! Where as in other beginning books a lot of details are missing -this book is fine tunned and includes many details about the C# language that are just simply not covered in other books! This book is enjoyable and keeps you thinking.

After completing this book, you will have good experience with C# and ready to move on to more advanced books. You get a taste of different C# topics -towards the end of the book. After completing this book, it will be your choice to go the way of Windows Form programming or ASP.NET, and associated topics in those fields. This book gets 5 stars for an introductory book. (...)This book assumes you know your way around an IDE, which is pretty easy to figure out. Enough said.

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Good coverage of XML with a usable parser
a beginner book with missing downloadable code

Beginning .NET Web Services with C#
Karli Watson , and Joseph Bustos
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Beginning .NET Web Services using C# guides programmers with a working knowledge of C# through the development of powerful and user-friendly Web Services. Web Services build on componentization via the Internet or an intranet, enabling a calling application to implement a service without requiring it to have prior knowledge of the service offered. The opportunities enabled by this technology have ensured that Web Services hold an important place in the .NET environment and have opened up the development possibilities available to programmers. This book will help you to develop your knowledge of Web Services using a teaching style that is designed to increase your confidence as you progress through the practical examples.

Customer Reviews:

Good coverage of XML with a usable parser.......2003-06-01

Good coverage of XML with a usable parser ...

... however, you are left the problem "why did I just learn all this stuff". It goes into great depths showing you how to traverse through XML, but it never tells you why you would want to do it. It certainly never connects the the XML applications with a .NET web service. After going into great detail showing you how you write a schemea, it all turns out to be pointless because you don't actually need to use one for a .NET Web Service (which is what I thought the book was all about). Similarly the subject of WSDL is covered in great detail - why go to this depth and never explain why. It mentions the passing of credentials as a SOAP header on page 316 and the book ends on page 327.

This book is a Microsoft reference lift turned into a book with a scabby example of a "real-life" example. Forget this book and by the Microsoft Developing XML Web Serices and Server Solutions.

a beginner book with missing downloadable code.......2003-01-20

For a beginner book. So far this book has not given me
any more information about web services than a beginning
book for vb.net or c#.

Few things to note,
could not get to work:
1/ chp4. web service proxy class example
2/ chp6 and chp7 is missing both the .mdf and ldf files
the examples WILL NOT work without it
3/ chp8 is missing the show_data.mdf
the examples WILL NOT work without it

For a beginner book to be thrown out with missing files
and non working examples, there should be no excuse for this
since the examples are not even difficult

Oddly enough, the databases for the vb.net version for this
book does work for the c#.

Book Description

Extensible Markup Language (XML) has been perhaps the biggest buzzword in application development for several years and now Microsoft has taken XML into the core of its .NET Framework. This book is aimed at teaching XML (and related technologies such as XPath, XSLT, and XML Schema) to beginning and intermediate C# developers who want to understand what all the fuss is about.

Over the course of the book readers will develop a good appreciation of not only what XML is, and how to handle it in C#, but also how to use XML to build applications to run on a single desktop, single web server or distributed, multi-platform web services, in ways that have been extremely difficult to achieve with previous technologies.

To reinforce the core concepts, the book makes use of numerous individual examples along with two case studies. Firstly, there is an examination of how different XML based approaches can be used in the development of a contact application. The complexity of the project develops as the reader's knowledge increases through the book. Secondly, we dedicate a full chapter to describing the use of XML and a SQL Server database in the implementation of a web-based news portal.

Customer Reviews:

I hope that guy from London doesn't code professionally.......2003-11-06

This is a code snippet from the book on page 25 (first code sample in the book):
DataTable objTable = new DataTable();
DataRow objNewRow;
objDataSet.WriteXML( "C:\\AddXML\\Contacts2.xml" );
DataSet objDataSet2 = new DataSet();
objDataSet2.ReadXML( "C:\\AddXML\\Contacts2.xml" );
dataGrid1.DataSource = objDataSet2.Tables[0].DefaultView;

Now, where exactly is the objNewRow used? Why declare it if you're not going to instantiate it or reference something with it?

And that London guy found no flaws in the code? This is the first code example in the book, and already I can't figure out what they're trying to do. Also, this preceded that last snippet:
string XmlFilename;
XmlFilename = "C:\\AddXML\\contacts.xml";

Okay... assuming that we're using Hungarian notation, which is what the author did in a rather odd way in the earlier example, why not just do this:
string _strXmlFilename = @"C:\AddXML\contacts.xml";

I used an underscore to denote that the variable is private. No matter.

People code some strange stuff, in some strange ways. But Wrox just gets me. It seems like they were producing just total crap in the past couple of years. I bought this book because it was only 10 bucks at Borders, and I guess it's worth the 10 bucks in that it gives me sheer delight to know that these guys made so much more money than I ever will, and I still code better than them.

-Ryan Cammer
ryancammer@yahoo.com

Could have been better.......2003-06-17

I bought this book as an introductory text to teach myself XML with C#. The book gives me that, but it could have been done far better. I am left with the overall impression that this was either a first time effort for the authors, or that the book was rushed to make a deadline and not enough editorial review and proof-reading took place (I suspect both).

Simple things like the illogical order in which topics are presented throughout each chapter, misleading diagrams, unclear or just plain bad use of grammar, inadequate use of examples in the early chapters, some VB code snippets (it's supposed to be a C# book) are all simple mistakes that could have been eliminated at editorial stage, and which, had this been done, would have made for a far better reader experience.

This book does it's job, but I am sure there are better texts out there.

Not an easy read -- mistakes -- relatively good coverage.......2003-05-23

This is not an easy book to read. The first 3 chapters are very heavy going with little in the way of productive examples. I was looking for a book that gave me the basics of XML with C#. I was not looking for a book that spent the first 3 chapters covering the basics of XML on its own.

Having said that, I think the authors do a fairly good job of covering the material that they are attempting to do. This is definitely an introduction to XML, though, and there are a lot of unanswered detail questions that you will obviously need to research in other books.

There are several mistakes in the quoted code, and the fact that the WROX site is no longer available makes this a tough book to work through. Fortunately my C# is good enough to spot most of the syntactical errors, but I pity someone who is new to C# too.

In a nutshell, this book is okay, but you're going to need a lot more than this to really get to grips with the stuff.

I'm going to look at a couple of the O'Reilly books...

Excellent Xml and .Net book.......2003-03-30

I really enjoyed this book and didn't find ANY problems with the code as the reviewer below stated - maybe he was doing something wrong.

Wrox support wasn't very good but i didn't need it much.

Some examples are complex, but then some of the topics are pretty complex and it does a good job of explaining them - will help if you have a larger pure XML reference book too!!

beginner XML.......2003-03-06

ALOT examples are missing in this book OR don't work, but this book is defineltly NOT good enough to get you started.

The merits of the book is a good intro to new technology when working with .net but what is the good if the code don't work
as in this book

there is missing code in chapter1 adding a recordset to xmlfile
chapter3 code in p118 and 119 don't work
Chapter 8 discusses xslt isn a very poor manner, in addition to all the missing xslt files and the non working application
in the download section.

At this point I cannot continue reviewing this book, there are
too many fundamental flaws in code and I don't know where to begin

As usual I have resorted to wrox support and again there is no comment to no surprise.

As a veteran of xml and xslt for the last 4 yrs, if you want
a book with alot of questions and NO answers this is the book for you.

until the code is this book is revised by the authors or WROX
this book is a death sentence to ALL who want to know about xml
and xslt in the .net world

The validity of the review is only good if the programmer
actually tries to run the code and not just say it that
it works.

Book Description

The arrival of .NET has changed the face of web development with Microsoft technologies. With the Visual Studio .NET IDE, you can now move seamlessly from building C# desktop applications to building web applications, with all the facilities provided by the VS.NET environment.

With this book you'll learn the fundamentals of the web environment and how Visual Studio .NET makes it accessible to C# programmers. You'll build a working website that demonstrates all the elements of a C# web application. We'll take a step-by-step approach to each example as we explore the essential technologies and how VS.NET helps us to integrate them into a highly interactive, attractive web application.

What you will learn in this book: * How to create dynamic web pages with ASP.NET web forms and web server controls
* How to display and manipulate data using ADO.NET and Visual Studio .NET components
* How to persist state in different ways, within the "stateless" web environment
* How to create XML files and XML schema, and how to use them for data transfer
* How to integrate your web applications with others, through web services
* How to make your application more secure, via the security features in ASP.NET and IIS
* How to eliminate bugs and unexpected failures, through effective debugging and exception-handling techniques
* How to improve the performance of your application and prepare it for release

Customer Reviews:

Great Book for a beginner.......2005-09-27

As a beginner to Web Applications, i found this book extremely easy to understand. The book covers all the topics necessary to get going to develop a complete basic web application. I'd recommend this book to anyone who wants information regarding State Management, Data Binding, ADO, UI/Web Controls, Basic Security etc. Also, this book would be very useful to anyone who has little or no experience with ASP.NET before and who want to get their basics right before plunging on to a project. Great book!!

Excellent crash course.......2005-06-13

Before reading this book I had developed a few simple web applications, but I was ready for a more in depth approach utilizing all of the excellent features provided by .NET. This book covers a lot of the basic topics that will allow you to write code efficiently and quickly. Of course since there are a wide range of topics, one finds that some of them fail to go into great detail, but this is not even an issue as the author gives you enough information and examples to be able to figure it out for yourself, or at least to give you a solid foundation for solving the problem. The only downside is that, as far as I know, the code examples do not exist on Wrox's website. Perhaps I couldn't find them? It's not really a big issue because most of the code is easy to follow. I'd recommend this book to anyone who wants beginning/intermediate information regarding State Management, Data Binding, ADO, UI/Web Controls, Basic Security and more.

Excellent C# book with very useful tips........2003-03-24

Being new to .Net and redirecting my career into software development, I've found Daniel's book to be one of most well written and insightful books on C# and Visual Studio.net. He moves quickly into the nuts and bolts of the .Net classes and provides innovative code that go beyond the obvious. You are given multiple methods of handling logic in the same code-behind. The authors cleared much confusion I had about server controls, data binding and ADO.Net. Readers will appreciate the applications development approach in the book which goes beyond theory and shows you how to apply your skills in solving real-world problems. I recommend you write the code yourself line by line and read the book cover to cover. He leads you step by step. You will discover the finer points of VS.net, not to mention the many properties of the .Net classes with Intellisense. I also like the SQL data interaction because this is so important with our customers. I highly recommend it!

Ideal for Beginners.......2003-01-13

As a technical reviewer of this book I found it to have a good mix of technical content and explaination which is ideal for helping developers to get started with ASP.NET.

Book Description

What you will learn in this book:

- How to create dynamic web pages with ASP.NET web forms and web server controls

- How to display and manipulate data using ADO.NET and Visual Studio .NET components

- How to persist state in different ways, within the "stateless" web environment

- How to create XML files and XML schema, and how to use them for data transfer

- How to integrate your web applications with others, through web services

- How to make your application more secure, via the security features in ASP.NET and IIS

- How to eliminate bugs and unexpected failures, through effective debugging and exception-handling techniques

- How to improve the performance of your application and prepare it for release

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With Beginning Web Programming in C#: From Novice to Professional you'll learn the fundamentals of the web environment and how Visual Studio .NET makes it accessible to C# programmers. You'll build a working website that demonstrates all the elements of a C# web application. We'll take a step-by-step approach to each example as we explore the essential technologies and how VS.NET helps us to integrate them into a highly interactive, attractive web application. What you will learn in this book: ·Create dynamic web pages with ASP.NET web forms and web server controls ·Display and manipulate data using ADO.NET and Visual Studio .NET components ·How to persist state in different ways, within the "stateless" web environment ·Create XML files and XML schema, and how to use them for data transfer ·Integrate your web applications with others, through web services ·Make your application more secure, via the security features in ASP.NET and IIS ·Eliminate bugs and unexpected failures, through effective debugging and exception-handling techniques ·Improve the performance of your application and prepare it for release ALSO AVAILABLE IN VB .NET VERSION!

Customer Reviews:

Nice intro into.NET Web Programming.......2007-02-27

I had a great deal of C# Windows forms programming experience. What I needed was a book to help me leverage that into Web programming. This book fit the bill.

You will not learn C# in this book (it assumes you already know the language); but it will get you quickly into building Web applications.

The examples are clear, well organized, and most importantly run properly when typed in correctly! The examples also have one important feature I prefer, which is a lack of over embellishment. They show only the code needed to complete the given task, not additional bells and whistles that can confuse the point of the example.

After completing the book, I found it easy to adapt the examples for use in building my own web site.

Gives you the whole picture..........2005-06-15

I found this book to be a very good source of overall C# information. It was not an exhaustive resource, nor did it delve in minute detail to all the points, but I have not found a better book to get a complete picture of the web programming world.

The code samples are very easy to follow, and the reader can download the code from the publisher's web site. I chose to input the code samples manually and only had a couple of minor issues along the way.

One example late in the book (Chapter 11 or 12) left the code in a state where it would not execute.

I also had problems with the web service examples but that can most likely be attributed to the proxy/network configuration at my place of employment.

The only other issue I encountered was with the stress testing tools like ACT. I was unable to access the site and still have not been able to determine why. Of course, that's not a failing of the book or the author, just a configuration issue, I'm sure.

If you are looking at starting ASP.NET development, this book is a good, solid read.

a complete web development environment.......2004-12-27

The book shows how to write a C# web application on a server running .NET. Perhaps the most succinct description of the book is its cohesiveness. It describes using two crucial packages, ASP.NET and ADO.NET. ASP.NET essentially handles the client-server interaction, by making dynamic HTML pages and handling the user's input. While ADO.NET controls the interaction between the application server and the database.

As you go through the book, if you keep this simple demarcation in mind, then it helps your understanding of the many lower level details in each chapter.

It is clear from the book that Microsoft is pushing hard to have the entire web development process done on their .NET machines, by offering a tight and consistent tool integration. Gives the open source movement a serious challenge.

Sweeping introduction to .NET.......2004-10-12

This is an end-to-end introduction to the world of .NET development. The coverage, which starts with the architecture and ends with deployment, is never comprehensive, but is always thorough enough to get you started.

Graphics are used extensively, which is not appropriate for a reference, but which works here because of the introductory nature of the text. The book doesn't pander though.

I recommend this to anyone who is starting with ASP.NET, and who wants an introductory text in the step by step style. If you are experienced in other web application development technologies then you would be better served by one of the O'Reilly ASP.NET reference books.

Average customer rating:

Very good book that is well worth buying.
Missing critical sections and disorganized
Disappointed!
Not Sure How to Critique This Book Fairly
Too many mistakes misguided explanations.

Beginning ASP.NET Using C#
Rob Birdwell , Ollie Cornes , Chris Goode , Ajoy Krishnamoorthy , Juan T. Llibre , Christopher L. Miller , Neil Raybould , David Sussman , and Chris Ullman
Manufacturer: Wrox Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1861006152

Book Description

ASP.NET is the latest incarnation of Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) - a powerful server-based technology, designed to create dynamic and interactive HTML pages for your Web site, or corporate intranet. ASP.NET also constitutes a core element in Microsoft's .NET vision, providing web-based access to an immensely powerful new development environment, .NET; in this respect alone, it's a great leap ahead of all previous versions of ASP.

This book will provide you with a step-by-step introduction to ASP.NET using C#, with plenty of worked examples that will help you to gain a deep understanding of what ASP.NET is all about, and how you can harness it to build powerful web applications.

Wrox has published two editions of Beginning ASP.NET, one presenting code samples in C#, the other in VB.NET, with sample downloads available in both languages.

This book covers:

Creating basic ASP.NET pages
Learning the basics of C#
Understanding the concepts of Object Oriented Programming
Working with Data and XML
The ASP.NET Server Controls
Creating User Controls and Components
Exploring the world of Web Services
Configuring your ASP.NET Applications
The future of VoiceXML technologies, including VoiceXML 2.0

Customer Reviews:

Very good book that is well worth buying........2002-07-09

The best book currently out on the subject as of July, 2002.
has good database access examples.
is generaly very good.

Missing critical sections and disorganized.......2002-06-26

At first, this seemed like a good book. It introduced ASP.NET well and brought me quickly up to speed. As a reference, however, this book is sorely lacking. There is no definitive list of all the ASP.NET server controls and their properties for instance. There are only a couple examples of SQL Server connectivity, and the configuration chapter is almost dead last - long after many topics and examples which require knowledge of configuration are covered. I frequently felt left in the dust. I think it is a typical problem of Wrox books. With so many authors it is hard for there to be a consistent message and progressive flow. Different authors assume different levels of knowledge when it gets to their section of the book. The result is a jarring experience that often left me feeling left behind.

Disappointed!.......2002-06-20

I'm a huge fan of Wrox Press books. I've also read books written by some of this book's authors but this book is absolutely disappointing.

Wonderful first two chapters followed by back to back to back disappointing chapters. Examples are terrible. They are just code samples that do not demonstrate a point.

Not Sure How to Critique This Book Fairly.......2002-04-25

I have not seen a book yet that addresses a large target audience that is missing for ASP.NET books -- and that is people like me who were ASP/VB/VBScript programmers moving to C#, who do know something about ASP and (separately) event-driven programming.

As such, I think it would be great if there were a book that said "Here's how you used to do things" and "Here's how you do them now" and why, and then focused on the newer concepts in ASP.NET (such as object orientation, something simulated in VB but not in ASP.)

My big problem with THIS book, is how the chapters are ordered and written. Chapter 1, how to set up ASP.NET, is indeed a good start and is something more books should contain. I tried to read this book in chapter order, and I think that was a mistake. For someone else with a similar background, I would suggest the following order:

(Basic overview of what's new)
Chapter 1 - skim
Chapter 2
Chapter 3 - skim
Chapter 14

(If not familiar with C++, or better yet, get a full-on C# book)
Chapter 6
Chapter 4

(events)
Chapter 7

(Database)
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 5

(Debugging)
Chapter 17

(Your own objects -- even classic ASP programmers know how to USE objects, so I'm not so sure some of the earlier material is terribly necessary)
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11

(As needed)
Chapters 15, 16, 18, 19

Too many mistakes misguided explanations........2002-03-30

WROX pushed this out way to fast. They didn't even bother to run it through a spell checker, much less try to run the example code. Mistakes like, "It's spellt..." and "..you can miss it out.." just are unforgivable from a major publisher. Don't they have proofreaders?

Then, there are the technical mistakes. A lot of the examples won't run without modification. And, beginning programmers (who the book is supposedly aimed at) wouldn't be able to fix the errors. Also, many of the examples are poor attempts to convey a concept. The authors talk often about a topic, then show an example that almost shows counterpoint to what they said.

Next flaw... The book is not "Beginning ASP Using C#". It's "Beginning C# Using ASP." Crucial ASP topics are left undiscussed. Like the difference between Page_Load and Page_Init. They point out an 'anomaly' in one example concerning the two methods, but don't explain that it's not an anomaly at all! There's a very good reason behind it, and the explanation is not terribly difficult.

Finally, the books explanation of fundamental OOP concepts is so confused and misguided that it makes me wonder if the authors have more than a passing familiarity with the topic. My guess is that they are former VB/ASP programmers who haven't ever had any experience in a real OO language. They don't seem to grasp the key concepts behind Inheritance, Polymorphism and Encapsulation and the certainly don't have a clue how to explain them. Forget more subtle concepts, such as the difference between strong and weak aggregation.

As one reader pointed out, this is the only book, currently, on the market doing ASP with a pure C# emphasis. But, it just has too many flaws. Steer clear.

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