ASP.NET Unleashed

by Stephen Walther

The Barnes & Noble Review
ASP.NET Unleashed, Second Edition is really big, really thorough, and really good. The explanations are simple and clear as anything we ve seen in a .NET book. The sample code addresses virtually every facet of ASP.NET development, from little gems (code for validating credit cards) to full-fledged web stores. Best of all, Stephen Walther identifies the mistakes ASP.NET developers are most likely to make -- and presents detailed solutions.

Few authors or developers bring as much ASP and ASP.NET experience to the table. Walther was lead developer for the Microsoft ASP.NET Community Starter Kit, a web site produced by Microsoft to illustrate best practices for building ASP.NET applications. He s been working with ASP.NET since its earliest alphas, and taught the world s first class on ASP.NET programming -- as well as workshops at organizations ranging from NASA to Verizon. Before ASP.NET was introduced, he was one of the world s leading ASP developers. One of his sites was used by 200 colleges -- including MIT, Harvard, and Stanford -- to accept online applications.

You could hire Walther to teach you personally (the going rate is $7,000 for a four-day session). Short of that, ASP.NET Unleashed, Second Edition is the next best thing.

This book addresses an extraordinarily wide range of ASP.NET development issues. You ll learn how Code-Behind really works, and how to use it to thoroughly separate presentation from content. How to dramatically improve the performance of ASP applications by caching entire pages, page fragments, and DataSets. How to make the most of controls on your ASP.NET pages, including rich controls such as Calendar and AdRotator.

Mobile ASP.NET development is becoming increasingly important, and with .NET Framework 1.1, ASP.NET s powerful mobile controls have been integrated into the core .NET Framework. Walther s thorough introduction will help you use these mobile controls to build wireless applications that generate whatever markup and rendering you need, almost regardless of your target device: web-enabled cellphone, PDA, or pager.

In a full section on security, Walther shows how to use SSL in ASP.NET pages, leverage .NET s encryption classes, and utilize all three ASP.NET authentication approaches: forms-based, Windows-based, and Passport-based (à la Hotmail).

One of the few complaints about the previous edition was that its sample code, while extensive, was all written in Visual Basic .NET. Great for VB.NET developers, not so great for C# developers. In this edition, everything presented in VB.NET is also presented in C#.

This edition has been fully updated to reflect ASP.NET changes associated with .NET Framework 1.1, the new version built into Windows Server 2003 and freely downloadable for Windows 2000 Server. These changes aren t massive, but are significant. For example, ASP.NET 1.1 s new Request Validation feature can help you avoid many script injection attacks, by preventing your server from accepting content containing un-encoded HTML.

From its complete section on XML web services to its systematic review of upgrading classic ASP pages, ASP.NET Unleashed, Second Edition is the definitive resource for working ASP.NET developers. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

Genres: Reference, Technology, Computers

1459 pages, Paperback

First published November 26, 2001

Reviews

[Mina]

use from session for e_commerc

[Joe]

I only put this on the list because the author has the same name as my brother.

I doubt he actually wrote it, because if he did, it'd probably not be publish.

Ouch, that was mean, wasn't it.

[Anandh]

Basic concepts in .net explained with programmatic ideas

[Roobi Roobi · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book is easy to refer...