Beginning ASP.NET 4 in C 2010 [Paperback]

The most up-to-date and comprehensive introductory ASP.NET book youll find on any shelf, Beginning ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010 guides you through Microsofts latest technology for building dynamic web sites. Learn how to build sophisticated web pages quickly and easily using the most powerful tools available.

Starting with the basics, this book provides exhaustive coverage of ASP.NET, guiding you from your first steps right through to advanced techniques - such as making database queries from within a web page, tuning your website for optimal performance and deploying your website to production servers.

Within these pages, youll find tips for best practices and comprehensive discussions of key database and XML principles you need to know in order to be effective with ASP.NET. The book also fully explains the crucial coding techniques of object-orientation and code-behind on which your future as a successful ASP.NET developer relies.

This book teaches users how to use ASP.NET by gradually building their knowledge of the technology in a pyramidal fashion, chapter by chapter. It is comprehensively revised for both ASP.NET 4.0 and the new C# 2010 language.

Introduction ASP.NET is Microsofts platform for developing web applications. Using ASP.NET, you can create- commerce shops, data-driven portal sites, and just about anything else you can find on the Internet. Best of all, you dont need to paste together a jumble of HTML and script code in order to program the Web. Instead, you can create full-scale web applications using nothing but code and a design tool such as Visual Studio 2008. The cost of all this innovation is the learning curve. To master ASP.NET, you need to learn how to use an advanced design tool (Visual Studio), a toolkit of objects (the .NET Framework), and an obje- oriented programming language (such as C# 2010). Taken together, these topics provide more than enoughl“¿