Sams Teach Yourself Asp.Net in 21 Days Book

ASP.NET is the part of the new .NET Framework for Web site developers. It's complex but Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days is designed to be accessible to HTML coders so it starts with the basics. To put ASP.NET into context the author Chris Payne discusses client/server, the Common Language Runtime (CLR), MS Intermediate Language (MSIL) and the .NET Framework classes. He handholds you through installing IIS and the .NET Framework SDK. But by page 21 you're looking at your first ASP.NET page in a browser. Payne goes onto introduce the various languages you can use--C#, C++, VB and others--but his preference is for VB throughout most of the book. You'll learn to validate input, design and access databases, use ADO.NET and get to grips with reading and writing XML via a Web page. By this time you're in week three and your head is beginning to expand. The final third of Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days is full of those dull but necessary skills such as creating and maintaining configuration files, debugging applications and securing your site. Though the story appears dislocated in places the fairly languid pace makes it easy to work through the examples and explanations--helped by ASP.NET's design. All the code is on the accompanying CD. Existing ASP developers even get a section highlighting differences in each chapter. Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days does what it says without confusing the issue with business processes. --Steve PatientRead More