Product Overview
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Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB, 2nd Edition was a fine book but we replaced it with a new and updated edition in October 2008.
However, if you do happen to own a copy of 'Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB, 2nd Edition' you may still be interested in:
- Downloading the 2nd edition code archive
- Viewing the list of known corrections and typos
Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB, 2nd Edition
About the Author
Cristian Darie
Cristian is a software engineer with experience in a wide range of modern technologies, and the author of numerous technical books, including the popular Beginning Ecommerce series. Having worked with computers since he was old enough to use a keyboard, he initially tasted programming success with a prize in his first programming contest at the age of 12. From there, Cristian moved on to many similar achievements, and is now studying distributed application architectures for his PhD.
Zak Ruvalcaba
Zak has been designing, developing, and researching for the Web since 1995. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from San Diego State University and a Master of Science in Instructional Technology from National University in San Diego.
In the course of his career, Zak has developed web applications for such companies as Gateway, HP, Toshiba, and IBM. More recently, he’s worked as a wireless software engineer developing .NET solutions for Goldman Sachs, TV Guide, The Gartner Group, Microsoft, and Qualcomm. Currently, Zak holds a programming position with ADCS Inc. in San Diego supporting internal .NET applications.
Previous books by Zak Ruvalcaba include The 10 Minute Guide to Dreamweaver 4 (Que Publishing) and Dreamweaver MX Unleashed (Sams Publishing). He also lectures on various technologies and tools, including Dreamweaver and ASP.NET, for the San Diego Community College District.
About SitePoint
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Customer Reviews
Live, unmoderated reviews from our customers, typos and all.
Good book easy to learn from. I recommend for anyone just starting out with ASP.NET.
achowd, USA 
Excellent book, only issue I have is with the PDF book. It is password protected and is a pain in the rump to have to enter the password every time you want to access it.
Ty Taylor, USA 
Good book ... a few more detailed examples for ech concept would be nice.
Laku Chidambaram, USA 
Excellent reference and tutorial.
Stuart M. Garner, USA
Hope to see the book update to cover Window Vista about how to setup the system. Everything else very straight forward and easy to understand. Great book.
JJ, USA 
It is an excellent book.
It is very practical and It has helped me alot in my job.
Juan M Gomez, USA
Excellent Book very helpful for working with any Web Site using ASP.NET
Jolene R Corsello, USA
I am pleased I bought the book.
I found all I was looking for.
Regards
V. Amodio
VALENTINO AMODIO, USA
Great book to get started with ASP.NET.
Vincent Costa, USA
Very good read, full of examples and very instructive code, which has resulted in a great learning experience for me. I am glad I came across your book during my web search.
Frank Bonilla, USA
Perfect for beginners!! Code samples teach you a lot.
I love the way chapters are arranged, especially the Database Design, Data connectivity, and Advanced Data Access.
Dodly George, USA
This book was perfect for me !
ASP.NET is introduced with an easy approach.
All usefull topics is covered ! This book is really a good starting point to learn this technology !
Benoit Rochefort, USA
I love this book, explains everything in good detail. As ASP.NET beginer I love it.
Isidro Rodriguez, USA
An excellent book at unravelling the mysteries behind .Net. Ideal for experienced ASP programmers who want to make the move to .Net; not too simplistic and not too complex...just right.
Tony Ross, United Kingdom
Product Details
| Edition: |
2nd |
| Price: |
$44.95 - Hard Copy Only $29.95 - Electronic Copy Only |
| Pages: | 705 |
| ISBN: | 0-9752402-8-5 |
| Published: | November 2006 |
New Features
So, Why Move to ASP.NET 2.0?
- Master Pages
- Master Pages allow you to define a template which can be used to create many pages quickly and easily. Master Pages can later be edited to give your site a new look with a minimum of fuss.
- Login & LoginStatus
- Controls like Login and LoginStatus alleviate many of the headaches of creating your own authentication system, and they can be heavily customised to suit your needs.
- GridView & DetailsView
- The new data controls GridView and DetailsView offer much more power and flexibility than the old DataGrid control.
- SiteMapDataPath, SiteMapDataSource & TreeView
- New controls like the SiteMapDataPath, SiteMapDataSource and TreeView make building a web site navigation system a snap.
SitePoint Books
- Advocate best practice techniques
- Lead you through practical examples
- Provide working code for your web site
- Make learning easy and fun
