Author : Bipin Joshi Publisher : BinaryIntellect Consulting Published On : 12/4/2007 Pages : 591 Price : Rs. 415 or $14 (India) $35 (Overseas)

Master ASP.NET 3.5 development using C# and Visual Studio.NET 2008. Learn ASP.NET from ground up. Design professional looking web sites with server controls, Master Pages and Themes. Develop data driven web forms with ADO.NET and data bound controls. Secure your web application with Membership and Roles. Develop AJAX spiced web sites. Write ASMX and WCF services. Understand the configuration, compilation and deployment techniques.

What this book covers?

This book is about ASP.NET 3.5. It teaches you most of the concepts that you need to make yourself up and running with ASP.NET 3.5. It looks at ASP.NET 3.5 as a complete platform for web application development. You will find many topics that are equally applicable in ASP.NET 1.x and 2.0 also. Care has been taken that you need not refer any 1.x or 2.0 book for understanding the concepts.

Following is a list of major topics that are discussed in this book:

• Web Form Programming Model
• Web Server Controls
• Database Programming with ADO.NET
• Working with Data Source Controls
• Working with Data Bound Controls
• Master Pages and Navigation
• Themes
• Profiles
• Web Parts
• Developing User Controls
• Caching
• ASMX and WCF services
• Security, Membership and Roles
• AJAX client and server side programming
• Configuration and Administration

Who is this book for?

This book is written for experienced developers new to ASP.NET. It is assumed that:  

• You are experienced developer in technologies such as VB6, VC++, ASP or Java
• You are aware of how web applications work. You need not be a seasoned web developer but familiarity and awareness with HTML, JavaScript and overall web model is assumed
• You know C# programming language. All the examples in this book are written in C#. This book will not teach you C# language as such. If you are new to C#, you may consider picking up some introductory book on C# first.
• You know Visual Studio 2008 IDE. This book will not teach you about the IDE. It is assumed that you either know it already or will be able to learn on your own as you read through the book.