Beginning Asp.net 4.0: In C# and Vb

by Imar Spaanjaars

This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to build rich and interactive web sites that run on the Microsoft platform. With the knowledge you gain from this book, you create a great foundation to build any type of web site, ranging from simple hobby-related web sites to sites you may be creating for commercial purposes. Anyone new to web programming should be able to follow along because no prior background in web development is assumed although it helps if you do have a basic understanding of HTML and the web in general. The book starts at the very beginning of web development by showing you how to obtain and install Visual Web Developer. The chapters that follow gradually introduce you to new technologies, building on top of the knowledge gained in the previous chapters. Do you have a strong preference for Visual Basic over C# or the other way around? Or do you think both languages are equally cool? Or maybe you haven't made up your mind yet and want to learn both languages? Either way, you'll like this book because all code examples are presented in both languages! Even if you have some experience with prior versions of ASP.NET, you may gain a lot from this book. Although many concepts from previous versions are brought forward into ASP.NET 4, you'll discover there's a lot of new stuff to be found in this book, including an introduction to the ADO.NET Entity Framework, the inclusion of jQuery, ASP.NET AJAX, the many changes to the ASP.NET 4 Framework, and much more. This book teaches you how to create a feature-rich, data-driven, and interactive web site called Planet Wrox. Although this is quite a mouthful, you'll find that with Visual Web Developer 2010, developing such a web site isn't as hard as it seems. You'll see the entire process of building a web site, from installing Visual Web Developer 2010 in Chapter 1 all the way up to putting your web application on a live server in Chapter 19. The book is divided into 19 chapters, each dealing with a specific subject.

Genres: Programming, Software, Technical, Technology, Reference

864 pages, Paperback

First published March 18, 2010

Reviews

[Mohammad Elsheimy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simply, I choose only the great books based on the sales and user reviews. That's why most of my ratings are high. :)

[Jonathan Jacobsen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decided to move to a different technology

[Chris Seltzer · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a standard 'pick up a new programming language quickly' book.

It's targetted at people who are not beginners but not professional engineers either. It does a good enough job of bootstrapping you to make a successful project, but I have to imagine that nowadays, this would just be replaced with a YouTube tutorial.

The tech is obviously outdated at this point, and the book ends up being forgettable even though it was helpful at the time when I read it.

[Bashayer AbdulAziz · Rating 3 out of 5]

one of the best books to start learning ASP.net. I like the author's way in presenting this book specially the practical part where you can end up with complete website at the end of practicing all book's exercises .

[مشرّف السّـكران · Rating 4 out of 5]

a good starting point to learn .net 4.0

[Tianan]

i think this is a good book for me .