ASP.Net Database Programming Weekend Crash Course (With CD-ROM)

by Jason Butler, Tony Caudill

Paperback: 386 pages
Publisher: Hungry Minds, Inc
ISBN: 0764548301; Bk&Cd-Rom edition (December 15, 2001)

Open the book on Friday evening and by Sunday afternoon - after completing 30 fast, focused lessons - readers will have mastered the skills necessary to begin creating robust, dynamic, data-driven web applications with ASP.NET. In just one weekend, expert developers Jason Butler and Tony Caudill lead readers into the new world of Microsoft.NET, and enable them to create robust, dynamic, data-drive web applications. Starting with ASP.NET basics, Jason and Tony teach readers what they need to know to begin creating ASP.NET applications quickly, and then dive into building database applications with ADO.NET, Web Services, SOAP, XML and more.

This book is a must have for any developer building web applications on Microsoft's new .NET Framework.

From the Back Cover: Get Up to Speed on ASP.NET Database Programming — in a Weekend! The big day is Monday. The day you get to show off what you know about ASP.NET database programming. The problem is, you're not really up to speed. Maybe it's been a while since you worked with Active Server Pages. Or maybe you're new to Microsoft .NET or database programming. In any event, we've got a solution for you — ASP.NET Database Programming Weekend Crash Course. Open the book Friday evening and on Sunday afternoon, after completing 30 fast, focused sessions, you'll be able to jump right in and start to create dynamic, data-driven Web applications. It's as simple as that. The Curriculum:

Friday Evening: 4 Sessions, 2 Hours
• Introducing ASP.NET
• Setting Up .NET
• Designing a Database
• SQL, A Primer

Saturday Morning: 6 Sessions, 3 Hours
• Databases, A Primer on SQL Server 2000
• XML, A Primer
• Developing ASP.NET Pages
• Using HTML Controls
• Using ASP.NET Controls
• User Controls

Afternoon: 6 Sessions, 3 Hours
• Validating User Input
• Maintaining State in ASP.NET
• Authentication and Authorization
• ASP.NET Caching
• Introducing ADO.NET
• Navigating The ADO.NET Object Model

Evening: 4 Sessions, 2 Hours
• Opening a Connection
• Executing Commands
• Using The DataReader Object
• Introducing Datasets, Part I

Sunday Morning: 6 Sessions, 3 Hours
• Introducing Datasets, Part II
• Data Binding
• Using the DataGrid Control with Bound Data
• Beating the CRUD out of the DataGrid
• Data Shaping with ADO.NET
• Handling ADO.NET Errors

Afternoon: 4 Sessions, 2 Hours
• SOAP
• Web Services
• Migrating From ASP to ASP.NET
• Migration From ADO to ADO.NET

CD-ROM Includes:
• Assessment software to help gauge your progress
• General Membership on Brinkster.com Web Hosting Service
• .NET Compression Library trial version
• BrowserHawk evaluation version
• Infragistics UltraSuite and ASPUpload trial versions
• Sample code from the book

System Requirements: Pentium PC running Windows 95 or later, Windows NT 4 or later. 128 MB RAM. See the About the CD Appendix for details and complete system requirements. For more information on Hungry Minds, go to hungryminds.com

About the Author: Jason Butler is a Principal at Price Waterhouse-Coopers where he specializes in custom systems design, development and delivery across the Pharmaceutical, Publication, Airline, Financial Services and Telecommunications Industries. Currently, Jason manages a technical team of ten consultants responsible for deploying custom Intranet and Internet Solutions.

Jason has developed web-based business solutions for numerous Fortune 500 clients including Moore Corporation, Perdue Farms Incorporated, Delta Airlines and Goodyear utilizing core Microsoft technologies including SQL Server, Visual Basic, ASP, COM, ADO, XML, MTS and IIS. Tony Caudill is a Principal at Price Waterhouse-Coopers where he, too, specializes in custom systems design, development and delivery across the Pharmaceutical, Publication, Advertising, Financial Services and Employee Leasing Industries. Currently, Tony manages a technical team of fifteen consultants responsible for deploying custom Intranet and Internet Solutions for Fortune 500 clients.

Tony has been responsible for business development and management of engagements at American Airlines, Wells Fargo, Hartford Insurance, Perdue Farms, and Bristol Myers Squibb. These engagements have utilized a wide range of technologies, software packages and RDBMS's including; Active Server Pages, WebClasses, Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, Visual Interdev, Drumbeat 2000, Visual Basic, SQL Server and Oracle.

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