| This book will teach you how to program web applications in ASP.NET 2.0 that can display data stored
in a database, provide a personalized user experience to your users, and even offer shopping functionality.
All of these sorts of web applications can be developed using ASP.NET 2.0, so if these are the sorts of
applications that you are interested in developing, then this is a great place to start.
This book is for anyone new to web programming, or who has a small amount of knowledge of web programming
concepts. Maybe you want to start a career as a web developer? Or perhaps you just want to
learn how to use some cool server-side technology to put together some sites in your spare time? In
either case, this book will teach you what you need to know, and give you a good feel for how the technology
works, how to use the Visual Web Developer environment to speed up your development, and to
give you total control over the development process.
The earlier chapters in this book will ease you in to the world of ASP.NET development, and if you
already have some knowledge of programming, then you will find these early chapters a swift and
pleasant read. Note, though, that ASP.NET 2.0 has a lot of neat tricks and tools at its disposal, and we’ll
be introducing these throughout the book. As with other Wrox Beginning books, you’ll find that the concepts
discussed in one chapter are then used and extended in other chapters.
This book teaches you ASP.NET 2.0, with the help of the Visual Web Developer IDE (Integrated
Development Environment). Working through this book, you will learn how to develop powerful datadriven
web applications, and even to expose functionality using web services. Here’s how the book
shapes up over the next 16 chapters. |
