Aimed at Windows Web developers of all levels, ASP.NET Unleashed provides a truly example-packed tutorial on beginning through advanced topics in ASP.NET programming. This mammoth text is never dense, and its clear sample code and ordering of topics will make it a strong choice for learning ASP.NET inside and out.

Dedicated to the principle that more is more, and weighing in at over 1,400 pages, this title covers all the bases in the new ASP.NET. Though it's comprehensive, the author takes care to present the basics of programming first. Early sections cover the basics of building Web pages with built-in ASP.NET Web controls. Only later on does the text range farther afield. Standout sections on mobile devices will let you work with today's wireless devices using both WAP and specialized HTML on the Pocket PC platform. Coverage on the extensive support for databases in ADO.NET and bound controls marks this book's practical focus on the basics. Material on tapping the powers of Microsoft SQL Server and the Indexing Service for providing full-text searches in Web sites is a notable standout here.

Later chapters look at basics of the much-advertised Web services, but also discuss ways to extend security and data sharing. Advanced bells and whistles are illustrated with a Web service to export pattern matching across Web sites--a worthwhile example. More advanced topics round out this book, including a tutorial on .NET APIs for common functions like the file system, strings, and regular expressions. A later section on combining ASP.NET with Microsoft Message Queue Server to provide asynchronous messaging will extend the range of your applications.

Final sections illustrate key concepts using a job site and an online store. And the last few pages in this 1,400-page tome are devoted to a handy reference for ASP.NET server-side controls, which is sure to be a useful feature.

Few titles combine so many useful examples, and the choice and ordering of material here makes this a book that will benefit two distinct audiences: those brand-new to ASP.NET and those who want to extend the basics with new capabilities using Web services and other high-end whistles and bells. There's a pleasing amount of white space in the text, which is dominated by dozens and dozens of clear examples rather than long-winded explanations, making this title ideal for those who like to learn new programming techniques through examples. --Richard Dragan


From Book News, Inc.
Intended for experienced programmers, this guide to building web sites with ASP.NET explains how to work with web forms, user controls, ADO.NET, security features, and web services. The second edition covers ASP.NET 1.1. The CD-ROM contains the .NET framework SDK, web matrix, and code sample written in Visual Basic .NET and C#.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Book Description
A well-known expert in the ASP development community, best-selling author Stephen Walther brings his experience as an ASP.NET trainer to the new edition of ASP.NET Unleashed. With this update to the highly regarded ASP.NET book, readers learn the advanced features of ASP.NET 1.1, and how to apply them in their own Internet applications. This in-depth, code-intensive title covers a broad range of advanced ASP.NET topics with samples now available in both VB.NET and C#.Throughout the more than 1,400 pages readers are shown how to develop state-of-the-art Web applications using Microsoft's powerful ASP.NET. It progresses through Web Forms basics, advanced page development, ADO.NET and XML, securing Web applications, XML Web Services, leveraging the .NET Framework, building custom controls and powerful sample applications. This is a resource that will be referenced over and over.


Download Description
A well-known expert in the ASP development community, best-selling Author Stephen Walther brings his experience as an ASP.NET trainer to ASP.NET Unleashed. With this valuable guide, readers learn the advanced features of ASP.NET, and how to apply them in their own Internet applications. This in-depth, code-intensive title covers a broad range of advanced ASP.NET topics that include: Validating Form Data; Programming Mobile Devices; Using Code Behind; Building Custom ASP.NET Controls; Creating Graphics with GDI.NET; Data Access with ADO.NET; ASP.NET Security; Using XML in ASP.NET Applications; Building and Consuming Web Services.


Book Info
With this valuable guide, readers learn the advanced features of ASP.NET, and how to apply them in their own Internet applications. This in-depth, code-intensive title covers a broad range of advanced ASP.NET topics. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

FROM OUR EDITORS

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￯﾿ﾽve 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￯﾿ﾽs been working with ASP.NET since its earliest alphas, and taught the world￯﾿ﾽs 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￯﾿ﾽs 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￯﾿ﾽll 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￯﾿ﾽs powerful mobile controls have been integrated into the core .NET Framework. Walther￯﾿ﾽs 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￯﾿ﾽs 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￯﾿ﾽt massive, but are significant. For example, ASP.NET 1.1￯﾿ﾽs 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 ￯﾿ﾽclassic￯﾿ﾽ 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.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

A well-known expert in the ASP development community, best-selling Author Stephen Walther brings his experience as an ASP.NET trainer to ASP.NET Unleashed. With this valuable guide, readers learn the advanced features of ASP.NET, and how to apply them in their own Internet applications. This in-depth, code-intensive title covers a broad range of advanced ASP.NET topics that include:Validating Form Data;Programming Mobile Devices;Using Code Behind;Building Custom ASP.NET Controls;Creating Graphics with GDI.NET;Data Access with ADO.NET;ASP.NET Security;Using XML in ASP.NET Applications;Building and Consuming Web Services.

SYNOPSIS

Completely re-written from the ground up, ASP.NET is the evolution of Active Server Pages, Microsoft's wildly popular technology for creating dynamic Internet applications. ASP.NET brings with it a completely new way of developing Internet applications for Microsoft's new .NET Framework. A host of new features including compiled languages, web forms, and web services make for a high demand for education materials among existing ASP developers.

ASP.NET Unleashed is a must have for existing ASP developers moving to ASP.NET, and for ASP.NET developers ready to take their applications to the next level. Readers should be familiar with VB or VBScript, as well as ASP fundamentals.