For many years now, Microsoft Access has allowed users all over the world to design and develop Windows-based database applications. Microsoft Office Access 2003 continues to be the world’s most popular database. This book is for people who have already mastered the use of Microsoft Access databases and now are ready for the next step —programming. Access 2003 Programming by Example with VBA, XML, and ASP takes non-programmers through the detailed steps of creating Access databases from scratch and then shows them how to retrieve and manage their data programmatically using various programming languages and techniques.With this book at hand, users can quickly build the toolset required for developing their own database solutions. This book proves that, given the right approach, programming an Access database from scratch and controlling it via programming code can be as easy as designing and maintaining databases with Access built-in tools. Anyone interested in learning how to get started with VBA programming in Access will benefit from this book’s 303 hands-on examples and 11 step-by-step projects.

This book gives a practical overview of many programming languages and techniques necessary in programming and maintaining today’s Access databases.

Custom controls and Web Parts can make you more productive by enabling you to create re-usable components for your WebForms. You can package up a piece of your user interface and re-use it within your Web site or across many Web sites. But that’s only one way that these controls make you more productive. If you’ve ever had an ASP.NET control that you wished worked slightly differently, you can now create the control that you want. When you build your own custom controls and Web Parts, you can have the control do as much (or as little) as you want.This book’s focus is on how to use Visual Studio 2005 most effectively to create your controls (although the information you need to create custom controls, user controls, and Web Parts using any text editor is also included). Visual Studio 2005 provides you with the best support for creating ASP.NET applications and creating your own controls.

The approach in this book is simple: “If you want this, code this; if you code this, you’ll get this.” Throughout the book, the emphasis is on the code that you need to create controls that you can use when building Web applications. There’s no code in here, for instance, on how to calculate the square root of every number less than 2,000. The code in this book is based on business-related applications.

This also means that this book does not provide much background on how ASP.NET works, unless it makes a difference to you when you’re writing code. If you’re familiar with how ASP.NET works “under the hood,” that knowledge will deepen your understanding of the material in this book. On the other hand, if you’ve been able to create applications without knowing that material — well, you won’t need to know it to understand the examples in this book, either.

This book is different from most others you can find in bookstores. Most offerings in this area are mainly reference books that dissect every little detail of version 2.0 of ASP.NET or the .NET Framework and that – in the best cases – provide a short listing to illustrate each feature. Marco’s book has a radically different approach: he explains how you can assemble all ASP.NET 2.0’s features and leverage its power to design, develop, and deploy a full-featured Web site. Don’t be fooled by the TheBeerHouse being a fictitious site for a fictitious customer: if the main differences between a sample application and a real-world Web site are the performance, security, robustness, scalability, and care for details that you expect from a commercial site, then Marco’s TheBeerHouse is more real-world than most real-world sites I have seen recently.

As Microsoft MVPs, this team of authors has witnessed first-hand the innumerable problems and challenges that even the most experienced developers regularly encounter. This project survival guide offers little-known solutions, undocumented features, tips, and tricks—otherwise known as hacks—that you can use to build and deliver real-life applications using ASP.NET.Written with the seasoned professional in mind, this book examines how some hacks ultimately become mainstream code or practices that are integrated into a product or process. You’ll benefit from the extensive experience of the authors as they show you how to adapt various hacks to your specific application and business environment. Plus, in-depth discussions of the solutions prove to bea helpful way to learn more about the inner workings of ASP.NET 2.0.

ASP developers need to understand how ASP.NET can help them solve business problems better than any prior product. ASP.NET by Example is designed to provide a “crash course” on ASP.NET and quickly help the reader start using this new technology. As part of the By Example series, this book approaches ASP.NET in an easy-to-use tutorial way, giving the reader a much faster and more interactive learning experience than the traditional reference book. By building the sample applications taught in the book, readers will learn how to create custom ASP.NET controls, how to use ADO+ objects in ASP, and how to deploy and manage applications. ASP.NET by Example also provides tools and information needed to migrate old ASP files to the new platform, saving developers significant time and money. As an added feature Steven A. Smith has included multiple case studies on how ASP.NET is used in e-commerce applications.

Using ASP.NET, you can build Web applications that deliver unprecedented power and performance. But to make the most of ASP.NET, Web developers need to think and work very differently from the ways they’ve programmed in the past. In Maximizing ASP.NET Jeffrey Putz helps you make the transition—and reap the rewards.If you’re a long-time scripter who’s migrated from ASP, PHP, or other traditional platforms, Putz shows you how to use ASP.NET’s object-oriented model to write code that’s easier to deploy, manage, extend, and reuse. If you’re already comfortable with the fundamentals of ASP.NET using C# or VB.NET, this book’s platform-specific details and development best practices will make you dramatically more effective.

This book will be both a tutorial and a reference for the serious ASP.NET developer who understands the benefits of object-oriented development and wants to apply those principles to ASP.NET and server control development. It is important to note that this book is the most up-to-date book available and covers the important new area of mobile server control development to support mobile phone web application development as well as using the latest version of Visual Studio .NET (2003) and the .NET Framework v1.1.

Extend your programming expertise across the widest range of mobile devices with this incisive guide to Microsoft ASP.NET mobile controls. Now integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, ASP.NET mobile controls enable you to build applications that render intelligently on different devices—regardless of markup language, browser, or form factor. The authors expertly guide you through the mobile Web application development process, explaining how to fully exploit Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 for rapid and more flexible development. Discover how to create innovative, intuitive solutions—instead of wrestling with interoperability issues.Learn how to:
•Build mobile Web Forms pages with device-independent properties, methods, and events
•Use “code-behind” techniques to separate programming logic from the UI
•Employ the standard controls or download new custom controls
•Build controls from scratch and program device adapters
•Create styles and style sheets
•Customize applications for specific devices with templates
•Access data using Microsoft ADO.NET and the Visual Database Tools
•Know when to use application vs. session state
•Apply best practices for using XML Web services in mobile applications
•Help secure applications with ASP.NET authentication services
•Develop multilingual and multicultural applications
•Debug code, trap runtime errors, and use software emulators to test applications
•Configure, package, and deploy applications

In this book, you’ll find eight complete ASP.NET applications. We’re not talking trivial Hello-World-type applications here. Instead, they’re real-world applications like shopping carts and discussion forums. You can use any of them as-is, or modify them as you see fit. So you’ve got workable stuff already included. (What a concept.)This book is a practical introduction to ASP.NET 2.0 Web programming. It pro vides you with actual working code to build the most popular types of applications on the Web. These applications enable you to:
- Restrict access to registered users, for all or part of your Web site
- Sell products online via your Web site
- Provide back-end functions for your public Web site, such as file maintenance and reporting
- Let users manage specific types of online content
- Create discussion forums and blogs

ASP.NET 2.0 Everyday Apps For Dummies doesn’t pretend to be a comprehensive reference for every detail of ASP.NET programming. Instead, it takes a learn-by-example approach, under the assumption that you are already a pretty competent programmer who can best learn by seeing real-world exam ples. Designed using the easy-to-follow For Dummies format, this book helps you get the information you need without laboring to find it.

The friendly, tutorial style of Sams Teach Yourself E-Commerce Programming with ASP in 21 Days empowers you to create your own online stores quickly and easily. Using online-proven methods, Stephen Walther, an expert e-commerce developer, provides you with an understanding of online commerce applications, then guides you through the use of VBScript and ASP’s built-in objects, enabling you to create your own dynamic, database-driven e-commerce solutions. This book does not stop at just creating the online store. The author teaches you to create order tracking systems, manage advertising, create store reports, personalize the shopping experience and much more.