Product Description

“This book is a great reference for web designers new to ASP.NET who are looking to jump start their development with

Visual Web Developer 2008.”

Mikhail Arkhipov

Principal Development Manager – Web Development Tools

Microsoft Corporation

Expression Web introduced ASP.NET to a new group of web developers. This book is designed to help you start using ASP.NET right away to add powerful new features to your website. Don’t worry, you won’t have to learn a lot of programming; instead, you’ll create an ASP.NET application from start to finish using Visual Web Developer 2008, while writing only a very small amount of actual programming code.

DETAILED INFORMATION ON HOW TO…

     •    Create and work with websites in Visual Web Developer 2008

     •    Use the different compilation and code models in ASP.NET

     •    Configure ASP.NET security and other settings

     •    Use ASP.NET master pages and user controls

     •    Take advantage of ASP.NET membership features for a password-protected website

     •    Use form validation in ASP.NET

     •    Use CSS, skins, and themes

     •    Access, edit, and add data to a database using ASP.NET

     •    Send email using ASP.NET

     •    Use Ajax and ASP.NET Web services

     •    Debug and troubleshoot ASP.NET

          . . . and much more!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84146 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 504 pages

From the Back Cover

The Microsoft® Expression Web Developer’s Guide

to ASP.NET 3.5

Learn to create ASP.NET applications using Visual Web Developer 2008

Jim Cheshire

“This book is a great reference for web designers new to ASP.NET who are looking to jump start their development with

Visual Web Developer 2008.”

Mikhail Arkhipov

Principal Development Manager – Web Development Tools

Microsoft Corporation

Expression Web introduced ASP.NET to a new group of web developers. This book is designed to help you start using ASP.NET right away to add powerful new features to your website. Don’t worry, you won’t have to learn a lot of programming; instead, you’ll create an ASP.NET application from start to finish using Visual Web Developer 2008, while writing only a very small amount of actual programming code.

DETAILED INFORMATION ON HOW TO…

     •    Create and work with websites in Visual Web Developer 2008

     •    Use the different compilation and code models in ASP.NET

     •    Configure ASP.NET security and other settings

     •    Use ASP.NET master pages and user controls

     •    Take advantage of ASP.NET membership features for a password-protected website

     •    Use form validation in ASP.NET

     •    Use CSS, skins, and themes

     •    Access, edit, and add data to a database using ASP.NET

     •    Send email using ASP.NET

     •    Use Ajax and ASP.NET Web services

     •    Debug and troubleshoot ASP.NET

          . . . and much more!

Jim Cheshire is the author of several books, including Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web. He has been working with ASP.NET since before its release. He has been heavily involved in the web design community for more than a decade and is widely considered an expert in Microsoft’s web design technologies. Jim currently works as an escalation engineer on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft.

ON THE WEB:

Download examples and source code presented in this book from www.informit.com/title/

9780789736659.

CATEGORY:

Web Development

COVERS:

ASP.NET and Visual Web Developer 2008

USER LEVEL:

Beginning to Intermediate

About the Author

Jim Cheshire is the author of several books, including the recently released Special Edition Using Expression Web. He has been working with ASP.NET since before its release. Jim works as an escalation engineer on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft, where he specializes in debugging and resolving some of the toughest problems Microsoft sees from users of ASP.NET.

Jim also operates the Jimco Software (www.jimcosoftware.com) and Jimco Books (www.jimcobooks.com) websites, where he distributes software and information for users of both Microsoft FrontPage and Microsoft Expression Web. He has been heavily involved in the web design community for more than a decade and is widely considered an expert in Microsoft’s web design technologies.

You can contact Jim via either of his websites.

Customer Reviews

Excellent intro into using Visual Web Developer 2008
Excellent intro into using Visual Web Developer 2008, both the express (free) version and the full Visual Studio (not free) version.
Also covers various server options for developers,and how to best integrate these with Visual Web Developer 2008. Comprehensive cover of this powerful development tool including adding Ajax functionality, debugging and publishing an application to the web.

It is thorough in its coverage, well written and very helpful with its pointers to various areas of further interest.

I use Visual Studio Professional but tried the new Express version just to see what Microsoft give away for free and was amazed at the level of functionality available free of charge. You can build some powerful applications with Visual Web Developer 2008, and this book will show you how.

Excellent beginner's book.

Disappointingly unhelpful
The book has all of the right headings but none of the content. The most common phrase you will read is "... but this is outside the scope of the book." You will be better off reading the help pages and walkthroughs in web developer yourself. Don't waste your money or time with this purchase. I still can't believe that the publishers agreed to this author's work.

Microsoft Expression Web Developer's guide to ASP.NET 3.5
Microsoft Expression Web Developer's Guide to ASP.NET 3.5: Learn to Create ASP.NET Applications Using Visual Web Developer 2008
This book is excellent. It is easy to understand and very well written. I can do a great deal of stuff now and the Visual Web Developer is excellent software. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to move on from Expression Web 2 and create more sophisticated ASP.NET sites, including login systems and contact forms. It also gives you a flavour for AJAX and I have moved on to using the new AJAX Toolkit.