Microsoft ASP.Net 2.0 Step by Step with CDROM (Step by Step)

Teach yourself the fundamentals of ASP.NET 2.0—one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the guidance you need to start creating components and working applications for the Web!

Discover how to:

• Work in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 development environment
• Add standard, built-in controls, custom controls, and Web Parts to any page
• Use Master pages, themes, and skins to build a consistently styled user interface
• Manage access to your application
• Enable personalization capabilities
• Build custom handlers
• Use caching to help improve application performance
• Trace and debug applications
• Configure and manage session state
• Create and use Web services
• Compile and deploy applications

CD features:

• Microsoft Visual C# code samples

PLUS—Get Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 code samples on the Web

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Get a practical, scenario-based introduction to developing applications with Windows® Presentation Foundation-and deliver a richer, high-fidelity experience for users. Written by Microsoft® Software Legend Billy Hollis, this guide walks you through four scenarios that cover a broad spectrum of potential Windows® Presentation Foundation-based applications. You'll build your knowledge of Windows® Presentation Foundation features and capabilities by seeing them in the context of working, real-world applications, including:

1. A minimal shopping application hosted in a browser.

2. A typical "forms-cover-data" application that demonstrates the superior layout, adaptability, and interactive capabilities of Windows® Presentation Foundation.

3. A basic, "skinnable" media application that enables the user to mark over the media screen view.

4. A simple data visualization application that includes both 2-D flat presentation and 3-D presentation in a viewport.

By working through such pragmatic example, you'll get the guidance and insights you need to enrich the user experience and create visually stunning applications. Book also features extensive code samples in Microsoft® Visual Basic® and Visual C#®.

George Shepherd is an expert on the Microsoft .NET Framework and develops some of the industry's leading third-party .NET-based tools. He is the coauthor of several popular programming books, an instructor for DevelopMentor, a speaker at industry conferences, and has served as a contributing editor for MSDN® Magazine. He's been programming with Windows since version 2.0, in the 1980s.