|
 |
|
 |
 |
The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks
|
by Scott Allen, Jeff Atwood, Wyatt Barnett, and Jon Galloway
Sales Rank: 263006
|
List Price: $39.95
$33.96
At Amazon
|
|
Paperback: 500 pages
Publisher: SitePoint September 18, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 098028581X
ISBN-13: 978-0980285819
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 7 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Product Description
An ASP.NET 2.0 book that just helps you get things done!
This book contains a collection of 101 best practice, object oriented solutions that you can easily adapt to your own projects.
Coverage includes:
Working with text, numbers, dates & times Accessing data with ADO.NET Form validation under multiple scenerios Page, Session and application state tips Access control in web applications Producing standards compliant output Enhancing applications with AJAX Working with Email Handling errors and debugging Performance tips and pitfalls And much more!
As a bonus, all book buyers get download access to the code archive which has all the examples in the book in both C# and VB. Back Cover
"A comprehensive collection of ready-to-use ASP.NET solutions!"
The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a collection of solutions to the most common ASP.NET problems. Let five world-class ASP.NET professionals guide you through countless practical solutions using C# or VB. Learn to: - Add interactivity with Ajax and JavaScript.
- Build a database access layer for improved portability.
- Sidestep the ASP.NET framework when required.
- Build data-driven applications quickly with SubSonic.
- Gracefull handle errors effectively.
- Work with email: send, parse, & manage attachments.
- Use component-based development for flexibility.
- Make your applications search engine friendly.
- Validate data input on forms.
- Create a user registration system.
- Use Master Pages to simplify development.
- Work with binary content.
- Improve the speed of your site, decrease bandwidth usage and speed up database queries
- And lots more
About The Author
Scott Allen is a consultant and founder of OdeToCode.com. Scott is also an instructor for Pluralsight - a premier Microsoft .NET training provider and home to many of the top authorities on .NET today. In 15 years of software development, Scott has shipped commercial software on everything from 8 bit embedded devices to 64 bit web servers. You can reach Scott through his blog at http://www.OdeToCode.com/blogs/scott/
Jeff Atwood lives near Berkeley, CA with his wife, two cats, and far more computers than he cares to mention. He's been a Microsoft Windows developer since 1992.
Wyatt Barnett leads the in-house development team for a major industry trade association in Washington DC. He also writes for SitePoint's .NET Blog, The Daily Catch.
Jon Galloway is an ASP.NET developer living in California. He writes about ASP.NET, software development and other geeky stuff on this blog.
Phil Haack has over eight years of experience in software development, consulting and software management, which he puts to good use as the CTO and co-founder of VelocIT. He also leads the Subtext open source blogging engine and contributes to various other open source projects.
Customer Reviews & Comments
I just got through reading The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology and I have to say, I liked it. Anthology is a "cookbook" approach at showing different tips and tricks for working with ASP.NET 2.0. If you've never set foot in ASP.NET land, this isn't for you - it's not a "newbie trying to learn ASP.NET" book. It's more of a "moderately experienced ASP.NET developer trying to sharpen the saw" book. The voice of the book is fairly informal, which makes it nice - like you're learning tips from a friend, rather than being dictated to. Even some of the code snippets - which are shown in a nice, easy-to-read format - inject humor (watch for the Office Space references in the "Working With Email" chapter). It made the book really easy to get through and understand. The book covers a large range of topics, from error handling to membership and role providers to form validation. What was a pleasant surprise to see is that it covered a lot of things many other books don't, like project format, source control, and usage of popular third-party libraries (e.g., log4net and SubSonic). There's discussion of non-ASP.NET issues like design patterns and practices, data access layer usage, and basic SQL Server query optimization - things that a reasonably experienced ASP.NET developer bumps into on occasion but may not have had time to delve into. It even addresses differences for users of the Visual Studio Express Editions, who normally get sort of "left by the wayside." There were really only a couple of minor issues that I found with the book. First, there's a chapter in there called ".NET 2.0 Core Libraries" that looks as though it's intended to give an overview of, well, the .NET 2.0 core libraries... but in the 30 pages allocated to the topic you can barely scratch the surface, so it generally comes off as slightly schizophrenic, hopping from topic to topic. The other issue I found is that there are some surprisingly good "nuggets" of information that seem misplaced and, in some cases, outright hidden, in the book and deserved a little more time in the sun. For example, cross-page postbacks were sort of hidden in the "Component-based Development" chapter and asynchronous pages were hidden in the "Working With Email" chapter. Interesting and valuable information that just sort of felt "out of place." Overall, the content of the book far outweighs any of the minor organizational problems you run into. If you're looking for something to learn from and spark ideas of ways to make better ASP.NET applications, this is a great book.
Comment | Permalink |
(Report this)
|
The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks
List Price: $39.95
Available from Amazon
Price: $33.96
| |
|
|
|
|
