Beginning Asp.Net Using Vb.Net [Anglais] [Broché]

Beginning ASP.Net is a complete introduction to Microsoft's .Netplatform for Web development. You can program ASP.Net in several languages, but this book uses Visual Basic throughout, presumably because it is the easiest to learn. It is a true beginners' title, and assumes nothing more than a basic knowledge of HTML.

The authors introduce ASP.Net, showing how it is built on Microsoft's .NET Framework and explaining the concept of dynamic Web pages. The early chapters also teach the essentials of programming with VB, starting from the beginning with variables, operators and data types. The book moves on to more advanced programming topics, including event handling, object orientation, arrays and collections. There is a quick XML tutorial, and a guide to database programming with ADO.Net and SQL. The later chapters look at ASP.Net server controls, building reusable components, compiling code into .NET Assemblies, and learning to debug your projects. Finally there is coverage of Web Services, and a chapter on configuring and optimising an ASP.Net environment.

Beginning ASP.Net teaches programming as well as ASP.Net, making it well suited to Web development newcomers. Those with even moderate programming knowledge would be better served by something more advanced. The book is based on beta code, which is not ideal for beginners. Even so, the authors do a good job of explaining ASP.Net and teaching the essential skills developers need in order to put it to work. --Tim Anderson

ASP.NET is the latest incarnation of Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) - a powerful server-based technology, designed to create dynamic and interactive HTML pages for your Web site, or corporate intranet. ASP.NET also constitutes a core element in Microsoft's .NET vision, providing web-based access to an immensely powerful new development environment, .NET; in this respect alone, it's a great leap ahead of all previous versions of ASP.

This book will provide you with a step-by-step introduction to ASP.NET using VB.NET, with plenty of worked examples that will help you to gain a deep understanding of what ASP.NET is all about, and how you can harness it to build powerful web applications.

This book covers:
Creating basic ASP.NET pages
Learning the basics of VB.NET
Understanding the concepts of Object Oriented Programming
Working with Data and XML
The ASP.NET Server Controls
Creating User Controls and Components
Exploring the world of Web Services
Configuring your ASP.NET Applications
The future of VoiceXML technologies, including VoiceXML 2.0

This book is aimed at relatively inexperienced web builders who are looking to enrich their sites with dynamically-generated content, and want to learn how to start building web applications using ASP.NET. Developers who have a little experience with previous versions of ASP (and are looking to move over to ASP.NET), may also find this book helpful in getting a simple grasp on what ASP.NET is, what it does, and how it can be used. Experience of basic HTML is required, but previous experience of ASP or VBScript is not essential. We'll be teaching the basics of VB.NET in this book, so prior experience of VB.NET is not required.

This is one of two editions of Beginning ASP.NET. This version presents all code examples in Visual Basic .NET. The C# version of the same title (Beginning ASP.NET using C#, ISBN: 1-861006-15-2) will be available from November 2001.

Chris Ullman is a Computer Science graduate who came to Wrox five years ago, when 14.4 modems were the hottest Internet technology and Netscape Navigator 2.0 was a groundbreaking innovation. Since then he's applied his knowledge of HTML, server-side web technologies, Java and Visual Basic to developing, editing and authoring books.

Ollie Cornes has been working with the Internet and the Microsoft platform since the early 90's. In 1999 he co-founded a business-to-business Internet company and until recently was their Chief Technical Officer. Prior to that his various roles involved programming, technical authoring, network management, writing, leading development projects and consulting. He has worked with Demon Internet, Microsoft, Saab, Travelstore and Vodafone. Ollie holds a degree in computer science and is Microsoft certified.

Juan T. Llibre is the Director of the Computer Sciences and Distance Education departments at Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He has been a consultant to the Caribbean Export Development Agency and the Dominican Republic's Central Bank and is currently the Technical Architect for the Caribbean Virtual University. Juan has been an Active Server Pages Microsoft MVP for 4 years and can regularly be found in the newsgroups and mailing lists, offering advice on ASP and ASP.NET in English and Spanish. He co-authored Wrox's "Beginning ASP 2.0" and "Beginning ASP 3.0", and has been a Technical Reviewer for over a dozen books on ASP and its related technologies.

Chris Goode is a Technical Architect in the .NET team at Wrox, currently specializing in ASP.NET. She has a degree in Mechanical Engineering, but decided that the engineering world wasn't for her. She's now back firmly in the world of computers, finding that life at Wrox combines the fun stuff with the work stuff pretty well.