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Building ASP.NET Web Pages with WebMatrix

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Are you looking to create your own website using Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web Pages through WebMatrix? Need a straightforward guide on how get going? Whether you’re an experienced web developer or just brand new to website design, Need2Know: Building ASP.NET Web Pages with WebMatrix offers you an accessible, step-by-step introduction to ASP.NET Web Pages server-side programming. This highly-focused primer demonstrates how to use Microsoft’s free WebMatrix programming environment to seamlessly place your logic and HTML in a single page, making ASP.NET web development simple, quick and rewarding.

Author Jim Wang, a member of the ASP.NET and Azure development teams at Microsoft, shares his insights and extensive hands-on experience in Need2Know: Building ASP.NET Web Pages with WebMatrix. Jim’s example-rich book bridges the gap between Microsoft’s official documentation and work-place reality, focusing on just what you need to know to get your first ASP.NET Web Pages website up and running.

Key benefits include:

• Details how to quickly set up and deploy beautiful, functional websites using WebMatrix, Microsoft’s free web programming environment
• Presents a rapid-fire introduction to HTML and CSS Basics for readers new to web development
• Teaches the essential Razor syntax in the context of real ASP.NET Web Pages programming examples
• Build a personal blog site with a secure log-in and email system
• Details how to incorporate posts and comments in a database and manage that data effectively, using SQL CE
• Shows how to add search engine optimization through WebMatrix reports and meta descriptions to generate traffic
• Takes the reader through the final steps of publishing the site to the web

About the author

Jim Wang is a tester on the Azure and ASP.NET team at Microsoft, and has built web sites since he was in high school. He graduated in 2007 from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, and has been working at Microsoft ever since. Wang is versed in C#, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WebMatrix, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, C++, Java, VBScript, Perl, Windows and Linux/UNIX. He loves programming and has devoted years of practice to learning the art. Wang is a first-time author, and Need2Know: Building ASP.NET Web Pages with WebMatrix is his first book.

218 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 29, 2011

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