ASP.NET gives Web developers the ability to create dynamic and interactive Websites efficiently because of all of the controls that are built into the language. To all of this power comes some cost. Although it is simple to use, it can take some time to really learn really well.
Build Your Own ASP.NET 3.5 Website is meant to be an introduction into the world of ASP.NET. Its goal is to teach you the foundations in a step-by-step manner until you have a thorough grasp. Throughout the book you will develop an intranet site for a fictitious company giving you the ability to see the many components of .NET in action. The book is 800 pages in length and divided into 15 chapters.
Chapter 1, "Introducing ASP.NET," will take you through what is needed to set up your environment to ensure you have the right tools for the job. You will install Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and will finish up by creating a simple ASP.NET Page to ensure that everything is running correctly.
Chapter 2, "ASP.NET Basics," now takes you through creating a more useful ASP.NET page exploring the components that make up that page. Next you will see how the process of deployment is handled. Chapter 3, "VB and C# Programming Basics" looks at the two programming languages that are addressed in this book. Here you will not only look at the syntax that makes up the two languages, but also the object-oriented principles that they contain.
Chapter 4, "Constructing ASP.NET Web Pages," introduces you to the building blocks that are used to construct your Web forms, as well as introducing you to the concept of master pages which are a newer feature of ASP.NET. Chapter 5, "Building Web Applications," is the process of putting together a group of web forms, controls, and other elements to work together to achieve complex functionality.
Chapter 6, "Using the Validation Controls," gives you the ability to implement user input validation on both the client and server sides of your application via ready-made validation controls. You will also learn advanced validation using regular expressions and custom validators. Chapter 7, "Database Design and Development," will prepare you to work with databases in ASP.NET. Here, the essentials are covered for working with SQL Express Edition.
Chapter 8, "Speaking SQL," gets into the syntax of working with SQL, beginning with the basics and then getting into more advanced topics like stored procedures. Chapter 9, "ADO.NET," examines this technology that facilitates communication between your web application and the database server. This will move you further away from static to more dynamic applications.
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