Review
ASP.NET is the latest version of Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP). It is a key element in Microsoft's new .NET Framework.
The book is for complete beginners who have no previous experience with ASP. Some experience with HTML is helpful but not required. This book will teach you everything you need to know in order to create dynamic ASP.NET web sites.
The first part of the book will familiarize you with the basic functionality of HTML, XML, ASP.NET, the .NET Framework, and Visual Basic .NET. You will learn how each of these technologies can be used together to create flexible web sites.
The second part of the book introduces the concepts of object-oriented programming. All concepts are explained in detail with the help of many real world programming examples.
After presenting the groundwork, the book then progresses to discussing the technologies and techniques that ASP.NET can draw upon to increase its functionality. These include ADO.NET for data source access, XML Web Services for inter-website communication, and Server Controls for facilitating code maintenance and reuse.
The final part of the book presents ways in which you can optimize your ASP.NET sites to increase their speed, security and robustness. It also offers some detailed advice on code debugging.
This book is highly recommended to beginners who want to learn how to start building web applications using ASP.NET. You may read some other reviews for this book at Amazon.com. They are all excellent.
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