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Beginning ASP.NET Using C#
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by Rob Birdwell, Ollie Cornes, Chris Goode, and Ajoy Krishnamoorthy
Sales Rank: 530249
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$1.51
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Paperback: 1000 pages
Publisher: Wrox Press; 1st edition November 15, 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1861006152
ISBN-13: 978-1861006158
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.2 x 1.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
Product 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
Publisher Description
This book is aimed at relatively inexperienced web builders who are looking to enrich their sites with dynamically-generated content, and want to learn how to start building web applications using ASP.NET. Developers who have a little experience with previous versions of ASP (and are looking to move over to ASP.NET), may also find this book helpful in getting a simple grasp on what ASP.NET is, what it does, and how it can be used.
Experience of basic HTML is required, but previous experience of ASP is not essential. We'll be teaching the basics of C# in this book, so prior experience of C# is not required.
Customer Reviews & Comments
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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Beginning ASP.NET Using C#
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