I’ve been teaching ASP.NET for more than two years and things have changed. It’s not just the course material that’s changed, but more importantly it’s the ability of my students to be extremely productive. They can create enterprise applications in a fraction of the time it used to take. Many of my students are seasoned Web developers who work for Fortune 1000 companies. They have taken what they’ve learned back to the workplace, and saved their employers thousands of dollars. And the savings have been possible because the cost of developing enterprise applications with ASP.NET is so much lower. That’s because ASP.NET gives developers so much of the plumbing that they used to have to write themselves, such as Web services, XML rendering, and remoting.
This book should not be the first book on ASP.NET development that you read. While there is a fair amount of teaching throughout, it assumes that you know the basics of Web development using ASP.NET. This book is full of solutions that can be easily added to your Web site. The solutions also show you lots of recommended practices. Learning these recommended practices is the next step past learning the basics of ASP.NET that you need. It’s kind of like once you’ve learned to spell and write sentences, you can correctly learn to craft coherent prose.
This book teaches you how to tie all of the ASP.NET pieces together. It teaches you how to get the most out of the ASP.NET platform. Many of the applications in this book would cost you significant dollars if you purchased them. Examples of this are the Forum application, the Classifieds application, and the Graphing class. As a developer, I often look for applications and classes that I can use. Finding these cuts my cost of development significantly since I don’t have to write
them myself. And even if you do have to modify these applications to suit your needs, they give you a starting point that’ll still save you lots of time. I have a Web site so that you can see the applications.

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.
Each feature you add to your website will introduce you to new challenges and theoretical concepts, which are carefully analyzed and explained throughout the book. You will gain an intimate understanding of every piece of code you write. This understanding will enable you to build your own powerful and flexible websites efficiently and rapidly with ASP.NET 2.0.

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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.

Topics covered include: the .NET Foundation Classes that are most used by developers, and details about the construction of Web Services and how they programmatically communicate with each other.