"No one knows ASP.NET like Fritz Onion. And no one knows .NET security
like Keith Brown. Combine the two and what do you get? The most
comprehensive and enlightening book on ASP.NET 2.0 industrywide. I'm
sure you'll find the book you're holding was worth every penny."
--Aaron Skonnard, member of technical staff and cofounder, Pluralsight
"Essential ASP.NET 2.0 gets under the hood and dismantles the
engine before your eyes. Fritz and Keith understand that we as
developers need to understand how it works and this book does exactly
that. Their explanation of the ASP.NET 2.0 page event sequence is worth
the price of the book alone."
--Shawn Wildermuth, Microsoft MVP (C#), "The ADO Guy"
"Essential ASP.NET 2.0 is an incredibly useful must-read for any
developer.Many books drag you through theory and mindless detail, but
this one actually sets up the problems you may encounter with ASP.NET
2.0 and rolls out the alternatives."
--Patrick Hynds, Microsoft Regional Director and President,
CriticalSites
"This book is essential for any ASP.NET developer moving from version
1.x to 2.0. Onion and Brown not only cover the new features, but provide
a wealth of insight and detail about how to use them effectively."
--Ron Petrusha, author of Visual Basic 2005: The Complete Reference
"Drawing on their deep technical knowledge and real-world experience,
Fritz and Keith take the reader into some of the less explored and much
improved areas of ASP.NET such as diagnostics and state management and
performance. Readers will turn to this book over and over again."
--John Timney, Microsoft MVP, Senior Web Services Consultant, British
Telecom
"Fritz and Keith, both established developers and writers in our
industry, have succeeded again--enlightening us on the latest
advancements found in ASP.NET 2.0. If you're new to ASP.NET or a
seasoned veteran, you'll benefit tremendously from their overview,
analysis, and sample code."
--Joe "MSJoe" Flanigen
"This book seeks not only to explain how to effectively build Web sites
with ASP.NET, it also gives the reader an idea of how the process works.
This insight is essential to creating applications that work with the
infrastructure rather than fighting it."
--Justin Burtch, Vice President, Newbrook Solutions
Essential ASP.NET 2.0 is the Microsoft developer's definitive
reference for ASP.NET 2.0 programming. It covers all you need to know to
build robust, well-designed Web applications with ASP.NET 2.0, Visual
Studio 2005, and .NET 2.0. ASP.NET MVP Fritz Onion and Developer
Security MVP Keith Brown draw on their unparalleled experience working
with ASP.NET 2.0 and teaching it to professional developers. From data
binding to security, UIs to performance, they demystify ASP.NET 2.0's
most difficult areas, and introduce little-known techniques for
leveraging it to the fullest.
The perfect companion to his previous classic, Essential ASP.NET with
Examples in C#, Essential ASP.NET 2.0 offers hundreds of new C#
examples that illuminate today's best Web development practices. (Both
C# and VB 2005 versions of all code examples can be downloaded from the
companion Web site.)
Topics explored in-depth include:
- Application architecture
- Code behind
- Master pages
- Themes and skins
- Navigation controls
- Data binding
- State management
- Security
- Web Parts
- Diagnostics
- Performance optimization
- Asynchronous tasks and pages
Simply put, if you want to design and build better ASP.NET 2.0 Web
applications, Essential ASP.NET 2.0 delivers everything you need:
insider's knowledge, proven best practices, and outstanding code
samples.
