ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

First, you’ll get an introduction to all the tools and terminology you need to understand ASP.NET. If you’ve used earlier versions of ASP.NET and Visual Web Developer, you can probably skip that part and jump right into what’s new in 3.5. You'll make friends with LINQ and SQL, create sites in Visual Web Developer 2008 Express, and much more. Before you know it, you’ll discover how to:

• Integrate data, track shopping cart contents, and whisk away bugs
• Create user interfaces with easy navigation
• Use the ListView control for sophisticated formatting
• Write LINQ queries
• Add a table to a database
• Create an event handler
• Take advantage of the drag 'n' drop feature that lets you write less code
• Put all the features to work to develop dynamic Web applications

The softball team is going to love that Web site, and your customers might enjoy shopping on your site so much that you’ll have to expand your business to fill all the orders! We can’t promise that, of course, but we’re pretty sure that ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies will make creating Web sites easier and a lot more fun.

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All Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review:
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Very pleased with purchase, 2008-11-02
Mr. Cox did a great job writing this book. It is very well laid out, and the material is easy to digest. I learned a lot from the book, and I am quite pleased.


1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Fast track for beginners, 2008-09-06
This book is great. In just one week I was able to create, with only a few lines of code, a brillant dinamic website.
Well done Ken Cox.
NOTE: This books contain VB coding and not C#


1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Go!, 2008-08-11
This is not the first ASP.Net book I've read. This is the first one I've enjoyed!-)

Because of this book I'll reconsider my attitude towards the whole series. Suddenly it seems a great idea - get the basics with no pain.

I liked the humor. I liked the fact the author's making it so easy. I like the stress on using the tools and not writing the code by hand.

I key in the samples. Then I look at the code generated by the tools. Then I look at the code sent to the browser.

A great way to learn. And have fun.


2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

VB ONLY, 2008-07-25
This book uses VB only. The web site reference is non existant. The overview should stipulate the strict usage of VB not C#. If you want to use C# do not but this book.



6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

The Right Author, the right approach, 2008-04-29
I almost didn't by the ASP.NET 3.5 for Dummies. Then I noticed that it was a different author than ASP.NET 2.0 for Dummies and I thought I would give it a look. Bill Hatfield wrote the 'Dummies' book on the previous version and while I found him to be very knowledgeable, I got frustrated because I was trying to learn how to use Visual Studio with ASP.NET and his book didn't provide much help. Ken Cox however "gets it". He wrote the book for use with Visual Studio and by the end of Chapter 4 you're already using AJAX with no difficulty! By chapter 7 you're delving into LINQ! Ken's approach is intelligent and his style works both for the beginner as well as those more seasoned in ASP.NET. Excellent book!

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