BOOKS 2

Hello,

It will be helpful, if we can dedicate this thread for comments on the books you read on ASP.NET. It'll be a great help to me and to others.
Thank you,
RR.
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The best is yet to come.

 

[NatGreen]

The majority of books in my collection are Wrox books. However, I found the "Programming ASP.NET (O'Reilly Windows)" to be very resouceful.

Topics covered: Introduction to the .NET platform and ASP.NET; basic programs in HTML; ASP and ASP.NET compared; events in ASP.NET (application, session, page, and control events); HTML and ASP controls compared; basic ASP controls APIs (including in-depth coverage of calendar support); code behind forms; using the Visual Studio .NET IDE; tracing, debugging, and error handling; validation controls in ASP.NET (including built-in and custom validators, plus regular expression support); basic data-binding techniques; list and DataGrid controls; ADO.NET tutorial (basic APIs and programming techniques); calling stored procedures; updating database records; Repeater and DataList controls used with ADO.NET; custom ASP.NET controls (including derived, composite, and full custom controls); overview of Web services (including SOAP, WSDL, and other standards); creating and consuming a sample Web service for a stock ticker; ASP.NET caching techniques explained (including fragment and object caching); security options in ASP.NET for authentication, authorization, and impersonation; configuration and deployment options in ASP.NET (including XCOPY deployment); and an appendix with a quick tutorial on database design.

Regards,
NatGreen

 

[jfrost10]

One warning with the current set of Wrox books that are out there: they do a great job covering asp.net, but most were written BEFORE vs.net was released, so there isn't much support in there for it. Most of the examples are via old-school asp programming, just using the asp.net tags. I'm sure they'll update them with vs.net being released, and they are still excellent books! Just go in knowing that you'll learn more about the whys and hows of asp.net and .net itself than you will how to create web apps in vs.net

Jack

 

[Deadline]

Thank you NatGreen and Jack.

How do we know if the book was published before or AFTER VS.Net Release ?

Thank you,
RR.
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The best is yet to come.

 

[techninut]

Are there any good books on asp.net using vs.net ?

T

 

[dace]

By far the best book I've come across is ASP.NET Unleashed. It starts from the basics, but goes further into depth than most other books I've seen on the topic (although at 1400 pages it had better!).

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672320681/102-8354347-5815355

 

[DotNetGnat]

I use the following books:

1. ASP.NET unleashed
(link already given by dace)
2. Build your own Asp.net website

http://www.sitepoint.com/books/aspnet1/

-DNG

 

[LFCfan]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...57/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-9535643-7992764

I like this one, Programming ASP.NET by Dino Esposito.

 

[LFCfan]

Sorry, I should have mentioned - Esposito's book covers Framework 1.1, VS.NET 2003