The most up-to-date and comprehensive introductory ASP.NET book youll find on any shelf, Beginning ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010 guides you through Microsofts latest technology for building dynamic web sites. This book will enable you to build dynamic web pages on the fly, and assumes only the most basic knowledge of C#.

The book provides exhaustive coverage of ASP.NET, guiding you from your first steps right up to the most advanced techniques, such as querying databases from within a web page and tuning your site for optimal performance. Within these pages, youll find tips for “best practices” and comprehensive discussions of key database and XML principles you need to know in order to be effective with ASP.NET. The book also emphasizes the invaluable coding techniques of object orientation and code behind, which will start you off on the track to building real-world web sites right from the beginningrather than just faking it with simplified coding practices.

By the time youve finished the book, you will have mastered the core techniques and have all the knowledge you need to begin work as a professional ASP.NET developer.

Table of Contents

1. The .NET Framework
2. The C# Language
3. Types, Objects, and Namespaces
4. Visual Studio
5. Web Form Fundamentals
6. Web Controls
7. Error Handling, Logging, and Tracing
8. State Management
9. Validation
10. Rich Controls
11. User Controls and Graphics
12. Styles, Themes, and Master Pages
13. Website Navigation
14. ADO.NET Fundamentals
15. Data Binding
16. The Data Controls
17. Files and Streams
18. XML
19. Security Fundamentals
20. Membership
21. Profiles
22. Introducing ASP.NET
23. Caching
24. LINQ and the Entity Framework
25. ASP.NET AJAX
26. Deploying ASP.NET Applications

 

Customer Reviews & Comments
This book has lots of good information, and it is in mostly the right order. The problem with this book for many readers will be the style of presentation. It has been proven many times that people learn by doing, but this book doesn't give you as much in that area as is necessary to learn. There is code that you can download but it doesn't really line up with the book. The worst part of this book are the code snippets that are placed throughout the book. They don't show the surrounding code, so everything is out of context, and you don't feel 100% sure of where it goes in your file, and to top it off, it is code that sometimes doesn't relate to the code you download. Many times, instead of showing actual real-life variables, it just shows the equivalent of an 'x'. So you have no idea how it is supposed to come together. It continuously says 'code removed for clarity'. I understand the point of this as that code isn't the focus of this section, but if I'm building a page, I need to see that code to make sure I have the same code as the book. I would have to say that the information given is very precise, and if you already know C#, you're probably going to enjoy this book, but if you are new to it, and need examples and practice, it's not the best. Imagine watching an Olympic freestyle skier for a few minutes, and then without ever having skied or practiced jumping, you are suddenly asked to do the same flips and twists perfectly. Maybe an exaggeration, but you are really left on your own a lot of the time. The book is very dry, so you have a very long attention span and motivation to get through the book in order to do well with it. It is clear it is written by a programmer. There are constantly references to terms that haven't been defined previously, and sometimes you get the feeling this guy is trying to impress you with words. I've had professors like that, and although I respect their knowledge and intelligence, it does not contribute to a good learning atmosphere. I'm not saying 'dumb it down', but when learning a complex topic, the simpler it can be presented, the better. Another problem is the low resolution of many of the screen shots. I know that's a limitation of the technology, but it can actually be somewhat dizzying to look at because of the blurriness. There are other pros, and other cons, but I just touched on the main ones I noticed.

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