What is this book about?ASP.NET 2 Beta Preview is timed to coincide with thefirst widespread beta release of ASP.NET ’Whidbey’ — the newversion of Microsoft’s popular technology for creatingdynamic Web sites that pull unique information for each visitorrather that showing everyone the same static HTML pages. The bookgets developers up to speed with the new features and capabilitiesthat ASP.NET 2.0 provides. Developers will learn how to build ASP.NET 2.0 applications for themselves from the examples that thebook provides.This book is for ASP.NET developers making the transition tothis new version of the technology. The changes are many, and insome cases, they’re quite dramatic. The book spends a good deal oftime alerting you to all that has changed and explaining what youneed to know to make the transition to ASP.NET 2.0.Finally, the book focuses on both the Visual Basic .NET and C#developer. Examples throughout the book do not favor one developerover another. Instead, every example is provided in bothlanguages.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction.Acknowledgments.Chapter 1: Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0.Chapter 2: Visual Studio 2005.Chapter 3: Application and Page Frameworks.Chapter 4: New Ways to Handle Data.Chapter 5: Site Navigation.Chapter 6: Working with Master Pages.Chapter 7: Themes and Skins.Chapter 8: Membership and Role Management.Chapter 9: Personalization.Chapter 10: Portal Frameworks and Web Parts.Chapter 11: SQL Cache Invalidation.Chapter 12: Additional New Controls.Chapter 13: Changes to ASP.NET 1.0 Controls.Chapter 14: Administration and Management.Chapter 15: Visual Basic 8.0 and C# 2.0 Language Enhancements.Index.
Om författaren
Bill Evjen is an active proponent of .NET technologies andcommunity-based learning initiatives for .NET. He has been activelyinvolved with .NET since the first bits were released in 2000. Inthe same year, Bill founded the St. Louis .NET User Group(http://www.stlnet.org), one of the world’s first .NET usergroups. Bill is also the founder and executive director of the International .NET Association (http://www.ineta.org), whichrepresents more than 200, 000 members worldwide.Based in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Bill is an acclaimed author andspeaker on ASP.NET and XMLWeb services. He has written orcoauthored Professional C#, 3rd Edition and Professional VB.NET, 3rd Edition (Wrox), XMLWeb Services for ASP.NET, Web Services Enhancements: Understanding the WSE for Enterprise Applications, Visual Basic .NET Bible, and ASP.NETProfessional Secrets (all published by Wiley). In addition towriting, Bill is a speaker at numerous conferences including Dev Connections, VSLive, and Tech Ed.Bill is a Technical Director for Reuters, the international newsand financial services company, and he travels the world speakingto major financial institutions about the future of the ITindustry. He graduated from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, with a Russian language degree. When heisn’t tinkering on the computer, he can usually be found athis summer house in Toivakka, Finland. You can reach Bill [email protected]. He presently keeps his weblog athttp://www.geekswithblogs.net/evjen.