BEGINNING ASP.NET 3.5 IN C# AND VB

Book excerpt: Market_Desc: · Primary audience: Web coders new to ASP/ASP.NET but with some background in HTML· Secondary audience: ASP.NET developers with a little ASP.NET 1.x or 2.0 experience Special Features: · ASP.NET is the hottest selling Visual Studio book topic· New book from scratch for ASP.NET 3.5 emphasizes the topics and techniques Beginning level readers most need to know· Written by 1 author who is closely in touch with the beginner ASP.NET developer needs thanks to his thousands of p2p.wrox.com forum posts helpfully answering ASP.NET beginner questions· Includes both C# and VB code for the ASP.NET examples in print and for download so readers with experience in either (or neither) can use the same book· Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 (0764588508) was the industry #2 best-selling introductory ASP.NET 2.0 book, the industry #1 best-selling introductory ASP.NET 2.0 online, and in Wiley's top 4 overall best-selling .NET 2.0/Visual Studio 2005 books About The Book: Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 helps readers learn to build dynamic database driven web sites using ASP.NET 3.5. The book follows the well-known Wrox Beginning approach where theory and demos are intermixed with exercises. Substantial pieces of theory are followed by an exercise that makes use of the things the reader just learned. The ASP.NET 3.5 version of this book is written from scratch with a renewed emphasis on the beginner developer and the order in which they need to learn and work. Steps that are required to set up the development and web server environment are done carefully in sequence to make sure the reader gets off to a good start. Written by one author, Imar Spaanjaars, this version of the book also sports a consistent approach and seamless transitions between chapters. Imar's extensive time spent posting answers to beginner ASP.NET questions (almost 7000 posts!) in the p2p.wrox.com forums give him a unique wealth of experience in anticipating and writing to the needs the ASP.NET beginner will face. Some of the topics covered in this book include: · Getting started with ASP.NET 3.5 · Creating Your First Web Site in VWD · Creating Consistent Looking Web Sites · Programming Your ASP.NET Pages · Working with ASP.NET Controls · Navigation · Using User Controls · Ajax · Working with Data using LINQ · Creating Data Driven Web Forms · Introduction to Databases, Displaying, Updating, and working with Data · Security in Your ASP.NET 3.5 Web site · Personalizing Web Sites · Debugging and Tracing Pages · Compiling and Deployment