Many developers are already familiar with the basics of ASP.NET and have been impressed with its potential to ease the creation of Web applications. However, few resources exist for those looking to translate their knowledge of ASP.NET into tailored solutions for actual challenges developers face on a daily basis.

Beginning Object-Oriented ASP.NET 2.0 with VB .NET covers all of the basics, from definition to inheritance. This book even includes a chapter on Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, enabling you to create ASP.NET 2.0 applications. Also included are chapters on creating web forms, web controls, and web services. Code samples illustrate the usage of each concept.

If you have a background in procedural programming, this book will teach you what a class is, how it relates to an object, and how to model real-world data into a class. You will be able to create a class in VB .NET, add properties and methods, and use that class in a simple ASP.NET web application created with VB .NET.

ASP.NET 2.0 is an amazing technology that allows you to develop web sites and applications with very little hassle, and its power and depth enable it to host even the most complex applications available. Using code examples in C#, this invaluable beginner’s guide shows you how to program web applications in ASP.NET 2.0 and see dynamic results with minimal effort.Through detailed explanations and working C# code examples, this popular author team eases you into the world of ASP.NET development and gradually introduces you to all sorts of interesting ASP.NET tricks and tools. You’ll quickly see how ASP.NET 2.0 is designed to ensure a significant reduction in the amount of code you have to write—and, in turn, to make your life easier.

What you will learn from this book

• Why Visual Web Developer is an ideal environment for building feature-rich ASP.NET 2.0 applications with C#
• How to secure web sites, providing login functionality and role-based access to content
• Useful techniques for safely updating data, using ASP.NET 2.0’s built-in data handling capabilities
• How centralized site design can be easily achieved
• How to add e-commerce functionality to a site
• Methods for enhancing an application’s performance

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.

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Chapters:
1 - Introduction
2 - ASP Examples
3 - Cookies
4 - Forms
5 - Connecting To A Database
6 - A Working System
7 - Data Manipulation
8 - RecordSet Paging

Learn by doing! Follow along, step-by-step, as you upgrade a static HTML site that uses obsolete code to an XML standard-compliant, CSS-formatted dynamic site using Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP), Macromedia ColdFusion, or the open source PHP. Create several integrated applications for a fictional travel tour operator, including a searchable listing for tour descriptions, country profiles, and a tour price calendar. In this official Macromedia guide, you’ll learn how to:

* Use a relational database—Microsoft Access or MySQL—as the driving force behind a site
* Use Dreamweaver’s built-in server behaviors and application objects to assist in the rapid development of dynamic Web applications
* Read and hand-code ASP VBScript, ColdFusion Markup Language, and PHP scripts well enough to understand how dynamic Web pages work, troubleshoot errors, and customize scripts
* Collect and manipulate user-entered data, performing calculations on the fly
* Use SQL to pass information between your pages and the database
* Validate forms using client-side and server-side scripts

If you are familiar with creating HTML web pages but aren’t familiar with creating dynamic, data driven web applications, you should consider learning ASP. And Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 2.0 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit is the perfect learning tool. The Starter Kit provides the unbeatable combination of programmer/author Scott Mitchell and the step-by-step learning method of the best-selling Sams Teach Yourself series. The accompanying CD includes Visual Web Developer 2005 Express, a lightweight, easy-to-use and easy-to-learn web development tool, and all projects developed in the book’s examples.

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 is the book every C# developer needs to read to understand how to create effective Internet applications using ASP.NET. As recognized experts in the field, Jeffrey P. McManus and Chris Kinsman explain how to build applications through effective use of ASP.NET, XML, and ADO.NET.
In addition, this book will provide:

• Information
  about the Common Language Runtime and .NET Foundation Classes, which
  form the building blocks for application development in the .NET
  universe
• Practical C# code examples that illustrate operations used most often by
• application developers
• Thorough reference material to the objects available in the Foundation
• Class libraries

Version 2.0 of Microsoft � ASP.NET will be a major upgrade-and this guide
offers an early, detailed look at exactly what’s changing in this powerful tool.
The author-a highly regarded expert in the Microsoft .NET development community-guides
you through new features, infrastructure changes, enhancements to data access
and ASP.NET controls, and other critical insights. As you begin working with the
beta release of the technology, this book provides focused, expert guidance-and
downloadable code samples-for getting a head start on evaluating, planning for,
and exploiting ASP.NET 2.0 capabilities.

• Delivers advance details and inside insights on new features and infrastructure
  changes in ASP.NET 2.0.
• Author Dino Esposito works closely with the ASP.NET development team and can
  provide expert, developer-to-developer guidance for exploiting the technology’s
  new capabilities.
• Features downloadable code samples to study and use in your own projects.