Review: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0: Core Reference: ASP Alliance

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by Teemu Keiski
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Table of Contents

Part I: Building an ASP.NET Page

1. The ASP.NET Programming Model

This chapter covers ASP.NET's workings from HTTP standpoint, the component model of ASP.NET, the development stack of ASP.NET, presentation layer and controls and the rationale behind provider model implementation in ASP.NET.

2. Web Development in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005

This chapter covers issues of Visual Studio .NET 2003 and how they are solved in Visual Studio .NET 2005. It also explains how to create an ASP.NET project, how to work with ASP.NET project items and how to deploy and administer an ASP.NET application.

3. Anatomy of an ASP.NET Page

This chapter covers ASP.NET Page's machinery and request processing mechanics, Page class's object model and page lifecycle.

4. ASP.NET Core Server Controls

This chapter covers generalities of ASP.NET server controls, html controls, web controls and validation controls.

5. Working with the Page

This chapter covers programming with server-side forms, error handling, tracing and personalization.

6. Rich Page Composition

This chapter covers master pages, themes and creating wizards.

Part II: Adding Data in an ASP.NET Site

7. ADO.NET Data Providers

This chapter covers .Net data access infrastructure including .NET managed data providers, data sources accessed through ADO.NET and provider factory model. It also covers in detail how to connect to a data source and how to execute database commands.

8. ADO.NET Data Containers

This chapter covers data adapters, table mapping, batch updates and in-memory data container objects, such as DataSet, DataTable and DataView.

9. The Data-Binding Model

This chapter covers data source-based data binding, list controls and iterative controls, data-binding expressions and data source controls.

10. Creating Bindable Grids of Data

This chapter covers DataGrid control and its successor, GridView control. It focuses on how GridView makes working with grids easier and how to bind data to the grids. It also covers paging, sorting, editing and advanced capabilities of GridView.

11. Managing Views of a Record

This chapter covers DetailsView and FormView controls' object model, binding and editing data with them and how to create master/detail views.

Part III: ASP.NET Infrastructure

12. The HTTP Request Context

This chapter covers initialization of an ASP.NET application, global.asax file and HttpApplication object, HttpContext class, Server object, HttpResponse object and HttpRequest object.

13. State Management

This chapter covers application state, working with and customizing session state plus view state.

14. ASP.NET Caching

This chapter covers data caching with Cache class, ASP.NET page caching known also as page output caching and cache dependencies (SQL and custom).

15. ASP.NET Security

This chapter covers security threats in web applications, ASP.NET security context and identity flow with ASP.NET authentication methods, forms authentication, membership and role management API and security-related server controls.

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User Comments

Title: What a great book!
Name: Bilal Haidar [MVP]
Date: 2006-11-18 10:28:04 AM
Comment:
Hello Teemu:
I was reading in the book right now and being an author at ASPAllianc.com, I came online to submit a proposal to give a review on this book, but I found yours :D.

This book is a master piece! I am waiting to finish thisone and start with the advanced one!

Regards

Title: Re. Totally agree
Name: Steve Culshaw
Date: 2006-10-29 6:49:12 AM
Comment:
The Programming ASP.NET is by Jesse Liberty, not Juval Lowy
- the thought of Lowy doing an ASP.NET book :-)

Title: Dino's style
Name: John Nelson
Date: 2006-10-27 4:39:05 AM
Comment:
The thing about this book is that Dino isn't JUST a luminary on the subject of ASP.net, he's a superior writer. The fact is, not even a year ago I was coming out of pretty basic PHP school, when I picked up this book. While there's no real coding example in the first book, the book gave to me not just the fundamental understanding of ASP.net 2.0, but rather...how to think in web application. Rather than HTML/Business Logic/Data Layer all on one crappy PHP page. The factor that Dino's writing got me engaged. It was the first computer book where I read it from front to back. And enjoyed it. He's dryly witty, and enthused on the subject. That's more valuable than some one who will offer you more detailed knowledge, and have poor language. I mean, the missing details we can do Google searches on the subjects. It's the incentive to want to get to that stage. I'd dare say that because of this book, my skill set has gained into at least a junior OOP n-tier developer with in the span of less than a year. There were many other books and blood sweat and tears that came to be, obviously. But those other books wouldn't have pushed me down the road...So, I think there's more to look here than just the technical information.

However, I think the separation of the two books came from Dino's personal life. Look at the tone from the one book to the next. The first one is not as personable, and text book like at times. Where as the Advanced topics has a major credit to his family, children and the topic of getting back to sports. Also, there's a way more "fun" edge to the advanced topics book, with good code samples.

Title: Totally agree
Name: Scott Galloway
Date: 2006-08-31 11:14:02 AM
Comment:
I totally agree, to me it felt as if the Core and Advanced books are really just one big book which have been split for no good reason (well, one good reason you make more money that way..). I recently picked up 'Programming ASP.NET' by Juval Lowy and Dan Hurwitz and I have to say, it's a far superior book to Dinos two combined. The only comparable book I've seen so far is ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed...which is very comprehensive...just HUGE.

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