Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference
by Dino Esposito
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Author: Dino EspositoEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-09
ISBN: 0735621764
Number of pages: 784
Publisher: Microsoft Press
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Book Review: Best description available of ASP.NET strategy
Summary: 5 Stars
In his book, "Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, Core Reference" (Microsoft Press, 2006), Dino Esposito follows a strategic approach that complements other books on the topic, such as "Professional ASP.NET 2.0" from Bill Evjen and four others (Wrox, 2006) and "Programming ASP.NET, 3rd Edition" from Jesse Liberty and Dan Hurwitz (O'Reilly, 2006).
Although not a Microsoft employee, Esposito writes from "inside the base." He explores capabilities of ASP.NET 2.0 in topics that will be familiar to developers experienced with previous Microsoft environments. The early chapters contain some Microsoft "evangelism," although they are free of the usual "incredibly" and "great" and "powerful." They explain how ASP.NET 2.0 overcomes limitations of some previous Microsoft systems. You can also skip to the ends of chapters for short sections that Esposito calls "Just the Facts."
A Web-enabled programming infrastructure provides two major services: server object representation of HTML pages and state management. In his first three chapters Esposito outlines ASP.NET 2.0 strategy and mechanisms for object representation, removing nearly all the mystery left by Microsoft's documentation. He also describes how support for localization works, a notable feature of Microsoft environments for many years that is mostly neglected in other ASP.NET books. Although XML is heavily used in ASP.NET 2.0, Esposito provides in this book only a brief description. His older book, "Applied XML Programming for .NET" (Microsoft Press, 2003), provides a detailed description in the context of ASP.NET 1.0.
After explaining ASP.NET 2.0 object services, Esposito digs into controls and data management for more than 400 pages before returning to strategy in presenting state management. He does not try to sugar-coat the facts: the ASP.NET 2.0 approach to state management is scalable only for sessions and page views, not for caching or applications. Most of his Chapter 13 is then spent detailing session and page view state. The following chapter on caching can be mostly ignored unless one is writing for only a small, fixed user base. The concluding chapter on security provides a balanced view of options and shows how to extend the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 authentication techniques.
While Esposito is clear about the limitations of ASP.NET 2.0, he says little about the alternatives. In his book you will get no comparisons with the Java-oriented environments and no examples of controls or class libraries from companies other than Microsoft. That might be a consequence of publishing with Microsoft Press. However, it is not easy to find such perspectives in any book. Developers who want to improve ASP.NET 2.0 responsiveness should look up the Microsoft Atlas project started in late 2004 and being run by Scott Guthrie. Esposito does not mention it, and as of spring, 2006, there is no book dealing with it.
Opposing industry trends in computer books, Microsoft Press does not publish for its potential readers a table of contents. The lack of such information from Amazon is not the fault of Amazon.
Summary of Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference
Build your expertise as you move beyond the basics?and delve into the core topics of programming with ASP.NET 2.0. Useful to both experienced developers and those developing new skills, this ultimate reference is packed with expert guidance, hands-on programming instruction, and practical examples to help you advance your mastery of developing applications for the Web.
Discover how to:
- Author rich, visually consistent pages and manage layout with themes and Master pages
- Create personalized pages that persist user preferences
- Retrieve, modify, and manage data with Microsoft ADO.NET
- Configure the HTTP pipeline to serve ASP.NET 2.0 pages
- Control program flow by tracing and handling exceptions
- Design caching layers and learn state management techniques to optimize application performance
- Manage users with membership control, registration, and authentication capabilities
- Build real-world data access layers using common design patterns
- Use custom collections with data source controls
- Learn the internals of grid controls
PLUS?Get code samples on the Web
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