ASP.NET by Example

by Steven A. Smith, Nicholas Chase, Glenn Cook, Nathen Grass, Vincent W. Mayfield, Wynn Netherland, Scott Swigart, William Wise

Paperback: 552 pages
Publisher: Que
ISBN: 0789725622; 1st edition (December 21, 2001)

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.

Customer Reviews
Great Book for the ASP.Net Beginner, April 26, 2002
Reviewer: A reader from VA
This was a great book for the ASP.net beginner. I was not very familiar with ASP.net or the .net framework, yet I still found this book very valuable. I especially liked the fact that all of the code examples work, and can be downloaded over the internet.

This is a great tutorial for the beginner and expert, April 26, 2002
Reviewer: A reader from Va
This was my first .net book. This book did a good job of starting at the beginning and teaching about the framework and .net platform, and then moving on to the details of developing asp.net applications.

Confusing Code Examples, April 17, 2002
Reviewer: Francis B Gallagher from catonsville, md United States
Despite what the reviewer "vmarmazoa" says, all code examples are not given in both c# and vb. Sometimes it's both but sometimes its one and sometimes the other. Why would they do that? For example, the first chapter that interested me, chapter 4, had all examples in c#. I'm not interested in learning c#, and i am very annoyed that i bought this book on vmarmazoa's incorrect observation. Don't make the same mistake.

A must for ASP.NET Developers, February 19, 2002
Reviewer: cjesudas from Dayton, OH United States
As the title says "ASP.NET by Example", this book is full of examples that we can use in a day to day ASP.NET web development environment. This book has everything that a ASP.NET Web developer should know. Simple Statistics Steven A.Smith, Nicholas Chase, Glenn Cook, Nathen Grass, Vincent W.Mayfield, Wynn Netherland, Scott Swigart and William Wise.

Publisher: QUE Pages: 527 Chapters: 18 (Including Appendix)

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Overview .NET
Chapter 2: An Introduction to ASP.NET
Chapter 3: Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET
Chapter 4: The New ADO--ADO.NET
Chapter 5: HTML/Web Controls
Chapter 6: Using ASP.NET List Controls
Chapter 7: Using ASP.NET Rick Controls
Chapter 8: Using ASP.NET Validation Controls
Chapter 9: Using ASP.NET User Controls
Chapter 10: ASP.NET Applications
Chapter 11: ASP.NET and Web Services
Chapter 12: Custom ASP.NET Controls
Chapter 13: Debugging ASP.NET Overview
Chapter 14: Case Study in Ecommerce with ASP.NET
Appendix A The ASP.NET Syntax
Appendix B The ADO.NET Object Model
Appendix C VB.NET Programming Reference
Appendix D C# Programming Reference

Who is this Book for?

ASP.NET by Example is intended for people with some prior knowledge of Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology who are familiar with programming and dynamic data-driven Internet applications. However, you do not need to be an expert with VBScript, JScript or any other scripting language because they play a limited part in the future of ASP that is ASP.NET.

An insight into some of the Chapters

Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET is discussed very well in Chapter 3. This chapter gives you an over all idea about the major difference between classic ASP and ASP.NET. This mainly include the new file extensions that we have in ASP.NET, how to maintain state between ASP and ASP.NET, Language differences, how to declare the new Server controls in ASP.NET and so on. This chapter will be very helpful, if we need to convert a Classic ASP website into an ASP.NET website.

Chapter 4 gives us an overall idea about the major differences between ADO and ADO.NET. This has some good examples such as retrieving data from a table, calling stored procedures, inserting records into a table etc. This chapter also has some cool examples that deals with DataReader Object, SqlDataAdapter Object, DataSet Object, DataGrid Control, Repeater Control and DataList Control. Oh Man! You should keep this chapter always open while you are developing a web application using ASP.NET.

Another very interesting chapter in this book is the Chapter 8, "Using ASP.NET Validation Controls". Validating the user input is very simple with ASP.NET. This chapter has several examples that we use everyday. This chapter goes through all validation controls that is available in ASP.NET. RegularExpression is also discussed very well in this chapter. Now, you can use regular expressions to validate any input format that you may have in your web pages.

A vital concept in ASP.NET is the code behind concept. Chapter 9 takes you a tour about "User controls" in ASP.NET. If you wanna learn about creating user controls in ASP.NET, then you should read this chapter. The examples discusses in this chapter can be used in a real time environment. This chapter has a very good example on how to create a "Login user control". This example is a very useful one and is a must for every web site that has secure information that needs to be shared among different users.

Debugging ASP.NET applications is a must for every web developer. Chater 13 has all information regarding how to debug a ASP.NET application. This chapter has a cool example that can be used to "read the contents from event logs". Another interesting aspect of this chapter is the discussion on "Frequently encountered bugs" in ASP.NET. If you are a ASP.NET developer, then you should have this book. I would rather like to call this book as "ASP.NET MSDN". Grab a copy of this today itself!

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