What you will learn from this book <ul> <li>Why Visual Web Developer is an ideal environment for building feature-rich ASP.NET 2.0 applications with C# <li>How to secure web sites, providing login functionality and role-based access to content <li>Useful techniques for safely updating data, using ASP.NET 2.0's built-in data handling capabilities <li>How centralized site design can be easily achieved <li>How to add e-commerce functionality to a site <li>Methods for enhancing an application's performance

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone new to web programming who wants to program dynamic, feature-rich web applications in ASP.NET 2.0. It will also be ideal for programmers seeking to upgrade their ASP 3 knowledge to ASP.NET, or programmers from non-Microsoft web disciplines who need to learn ASP.NET 2.0.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

This book teaches you how to build custom ASP.NET Web sites from the ground up. An expert team of authors uses their extensive ASP.NET programming experience to give you hands-on instruction in the best way to create Web sites with ASP.NET. This completely updated edition features new examples, and all code is written and tested for ASP.NET version 1.1.

What does this book cover?

Here's what you will learn in this book: <ul> <li>How to install and configure ASP.NET <li>Basic programming principles for Visual Basic. NET, such as variables, controls structures, and procedural programming <li>Techniques for applying these principles as you develop ASP.NET pages <li>The minimum amount of object-oriented programming necessary to work successfully and efficiently with ASP.NET <li>Key differences between ASP.NET 1.0 and 1.1, how to use the examples in this book with either version, and how to move from 1.0 to 1.1 <li>Build ASP.NET sites faster using Microsoft's new, free WebMatrix tool <li>Techniques for extending your ASP.NET sites to incorporate related tools and technologies, such as using ADO.NET for data source access <li>Web Services for inter-Web site communication, and Server Controls for facilitating code maintenance and reuse <li>How you can make your ASP.NET site production-ready through proper debugging, optimization, and security

Who is this book for?

This book is for beginners who have no previous experience of ASP, VB, XML, object-oriented programming, or the .NET framework. A little knowledge of HTML is useful, but not essential. All the concepts you need to create dynamic ASP.NET Web sites are presented and explained in full.

What you will learn from this book <ul> <li>Why Visual Web Developer is an ideal environment for building feature-rich ASP.NET 2.0 applications with C# <li>How to secure web sites, providing login functionality and role-based access to content <li>Useful techniques for safely updating data, using ASP.NET 2.0's built-in data handling capabilities <li>How centralized site design can be easily achieved <li>How to add e-commerce functionality to a site <li>Methods for enhancing an application's performance

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone new to web programming who wants to program dynamic, feature-rich web applications in ASP.NET 2.0. It will also be ideal for programmers seeking to upgrade their ASP 3 knowledge to ASP.NET, or programmers from non-Microsoft web disciplines who need to learn ASP.NET 2.0.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

In this book, we'll take what you already know about creating desktop applications using Visual Basic .NET, and show you how to apply it to the Web. We'll teach you about the different thinking that you have to employ when writing web applications, and also tell you about some of the technologies that can help in the creation of compelling web content. In particular, we'll explore:

- How the Web works: the Internet, HTTP, and the client-server architecture

- Creating dynamic web pages with web forms and web server controls

- Acquiring and displaying data using ADO.NET and Visual Studio .NET components

- Debugging and error handling in ASP.NET applications

- The importance of XML, and particularly its role in web services

- Setting up your web server efficiently and securely

- Assessing the performance of your application, and preparing it for release

Along the way, we'll be building a case study that demonstrates the use of these technologies in practice. That example, like all of the others in the book, is presented in Wrox's tried-and-tested Try It Out format.