ASP.NET Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution, Visual Basic .NET Edition What is this book about?

ASP.NET Website Programming shows you how to build an interactive website from design to deployment.

Packed with solutions to website programming problems, this book will have you building well-engineered, extendable ASP.NET websites quickly and easily.

What does this book cover?

In this book, you will learn how to

• Establish a solid, scalable website foundation
• Provide flexible user accounts integrating with ASP.NET’s built-in security
• Create message forums that enable formatted messages but defend against cross-site scripting
• Generate revenue from advertising
• Build a web interface for uploading, downloading, editing, and managing the files on your site
• Add opinion polls, email newsletters, and news management
• Deploy the finished site on a live server
  Customer Review: Unbelievable!
  I’ve read through many of the reviews on this site, both positive and negative. The main point is that if you are a beginner to ASP.NET, C#, or both then this book is NOT for you. However, if you have some experience with ASP.NET and C#.NET and would like to learn more about an N-Tier approach (essentially programming in .NET the RIGHT way) then this book is a MUST. I can’t understand why anyone would give this book less than a 5 star rating that meet the authors’ intended audience criteria (which, by the way, is stated in the book). I have read the book cover to cover several times and constantly use it as a resource. The book is a series of examples leading up to one project, but I don’t think the authors’ main intentions were for us to try and build ThePhile.com. From this book I took away the understanding of how to build a scalable, portable, professional Web site having 100% control over it.

  If you build web sites with ASP.NET as a novice or hobbyist and want to get to the next level, this book is for you! I own both the VB.NET and C#.NET versions and I highly recommend either one.
  Customer Review: Outstanding ASP.NET Case Study
  ASP.NET Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution, C# Edition by Marco Bellinaso & Kevin Hoffman is one of the most USABLE books I have seen. I stress the word USABLE because most books are either reference manuals or just teaching tools. Either one need is hit upon or the other, whereas with this book you get to have your cake and eat it too!

  The whole design of this book revolves around designing a web site from the ground up, all using ASP.NET with C# as the programming language of choice. The authors assume that you begin with nothing and you need to have all the parts of your web site hit upon to get this up and running for corporate or personal use. Since .NET is still a very new tool, this book is a very helpful resource to have for any and all web developers.

  The Authors break the book up into the following parts:

  Design of the overall layout, database, look and feel
  Setting up basic foundations like CSS, navigation, etc
  Editing and viewing all files that make up the site hierarchy
  A look at managing news (information displayed to the user)
  How advertising can be set up to bring in revenue
  Creating and displaying polls on your site
  Working with Mailing Lists
  Managing a Forum
  Deploying the site to the world
  A discussion of different data stores that can be used

  The writing in this book is very clear-cut and easy to follow. Using the code supplied in this book, the user can modify as they see fit and get their own site up and running in no time.

  As an ASP.NET case study, this is the best book that I have seen to follow a site from birth to adulthood. This is a fantastic book for all C#, ASP.NET, web developers and it’s a great addition to your current staple of related programming books.

  ***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED