Written in a lively and engaging style by a developer who�s grown up with Visual Basic, including both VB 6 and VB .NET, this hands-on guide addresses the core topics of the new VB, from basic to complex, with plenty of code examples. Programming Visual Basic 2008 also examines .NET programming from the application level with a chapter-by-chapter plan for developing, documenting, and deploying a full data-driven application. You learn, step-by-step, how to build and deploy a library management system, complete with patron, inventory, and barcode support.

The book�s broad range of topics include: VB language and its syntax An overview of the .NET Framework Object-oriented development in VB and .NET Generic objects, collections, and nullable types Design and management of software projects Integrating desktop features with Windows Forms Database design with SQL Server 2008 Database interface design with ADO.NET The new LINQ feature, and how to use it within VB and .NET Embedding XML within application source code Encryption and authentication in .NET Interacting with data stored in files and directories Web development using ASP.NET Deploying an application to a user�s workstation And much more Programming Visual Basic 2008 is ideal for VB 6 programmers who are ready to move to .NET, as well as VB.NET programmers who wish to improve their project-focusedsoftware development skills.

Programming novices and developers coming from other languages will find the book valuable because of its language instruction and project design knowledge. Once you finish the book, you will have a firm grasp of VB 2008�s core concepts and language elements, and understand how to build VB projects as they were intended � as complete, cohesive solutions.

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ASP.NET 2.0 is a functional programming tool, so why not discover how to use it by actually creating something functional? These aren�t useless �Hello World� type examples – you�ll build secure e-commerce, community, and back-end applications right from the start. Even before you�ve finished this hands-on guide, you�ll have something to show for your efforts!

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ASP.NET allows web sites to display unique pages for each visitor rather than show the same static HTML pages. The release of ASP.NET 2.0 is a revolutionary leap forward in the area of web application development. It brings with it a wealth of new and exciting built-in functions that reduce the amount of code you’ll need to write for even the most common applications.

With more than 50 new server controls, the number of classes inside ASP.NET 2.0 has more than doubled, and in many cases, the changes in this new version are dramatic. This book will alert you to every new feature and capability that ASP.NET 2.0 provides so that you’ll be prepared to put these new technologies into action. Greatly expanded from the original best-selling Professional ASP.NET 2.0, this new special edition adds hundreds of pages of new coverage of advanced and new techniques relating to data and data sources, the provider model, personalization, membership, role management, localization, configuration, migration, and Altas.

This book is for experienced programmers and developers who are looking to make the transition to ASP.NET 2.0.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 – Hello ASP.NET 2.0!
Chapter 02 – Visual Studio 2005
Chapter 03 – Application and Page Frameworks
Chapter 04 – ASP.NET Server Controls and Client-Side Scripts
Chapter 05 – ASP.NET Web Server Controls
Chapter 06 – ASP.NET 2.0 Web Server Controls
Chapter 07 – Validation Server Controls
Chapter 08 – Working with Master Pages
Chapter 09 – Themes and Skins
Chapter 10 – Collections and Lists
Chapter 11 – Data Binding in ASP.NET 2.0
Chapter 12 – Data Management with ADO.NET
Chapter 13 – Working with XML
Chapter 14 – Introduction to the Provider Model
Chapter 15 – Extending the Provider Model
Chapter 16 – Site Navigation
Chapter 17 – Personalization
Chapter 18 – Membership and Role Management
Chapter 19 – Portal Frameworks and Web Parts
Chapter 20 – Security
Chapter 21 – State Management
Chapter 22 – Caching
Chapter 23 – Debugging and Error Handling Techniques
Chapter 24 – File I/O and Streams
Chapter 25 – User and Server Controls
Chapter 26 – Modules and Handlers
Chapter 27 – Using Business Objects
Chapter 28 – Mobile Development
Chapter 29 – Building and Consuming XML Web Services
Chapter 30 – Localization
Chapter 31 – Configuration
Chapter 32 – Instrumentation
Chapter 33 – Administration and Management
Chapter 34 – Packaging and Deploying ASP.NET Applications
Appendix A – Visual Basic 8.0 and C# 2.0 Language Enhancements
Appendix B – Migrating ASP.NET 1.x Projects
Appendix C – Using Atlas
Appendix D – ASP.NET Online Resources

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Let me state up front that this isn’t a book for completely novice programmers, or for experienced developers that have never touched ASP.NET and the .NET Framework in general. This book teaches how to write a real-world web site from scratch to deployment, and as such it can’t explain every single detail of the technology, but must concentrate on designing and writing actual solutions. To comfortably read this book, you should already have had some experience with ASP.NET 1.x, even if not advanced solutions. You’re not required to know ASP.NET 2.0, as each chapter will introduce the new controls and features that you’ll use in that chapter, providing enough background information to implement the solution.

This book aimed at describing, designing, and implementing a site much like the ones you�re probably working on or will be soon, while taking the opportunity to introduce and explain many of the new features that the new great ASP.NET 2.0 framework offers. Difficult problems are addressed head-on so you’ll be ready for most of the problems you�ll typically face when writing a modern website, and have one or more solutions ready for them.

Unlike many other ASP.NET books that show examples for individual pages or features, the example in this book is an integrated end-to-end site (written in C#). The entire book and site has been written specifically for ASP.NET 2.0, to use the ASP.NET 2.0 features wherever they make sense. The end-result is a website which features a layout with user-selectable themes, a membership system, a content management system for publishing and syndicating articles and photos, polls, mailing lists, forums, an e-commerce store with support for real-time credit card processing, homepage personalization, and localization.

This book is basically a large case study that starts from the foundation and works its way through to completion with a series of designs and solutions for each incremental step along the way. What sets the Problem-Design-Solution series apart from other Wrox series is the structure of the book and the start-to-finish approach to one completed project. Not only does this book cover the new features of ASP.NET 2.0, it also demonstrates how to integrate all of them together, for the development of a single full-featured site. All the design options are explained and discussed (including the database design, the data access and business logic components design, and the overall site architecture); at the end of the book you will have learned many of the best practices for web development, based on a solid, scalable, and extensible architecture.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 – Introducing the Project: TheBeerHouse
Chapter 02 – Developing the Site Design
Chapter 03 – Planning an Architecture
Chapter 04 – Membership and User Profiling
Chapter 05 – News and Article Management
Chapter 06 – Opinion Polls
Chapter 07 – Newsletters
Chapter 08 – Forums
Chapter 09 – E-Commerce Store
Chapter 10 – Personalization and Web Parts
Chapter 11 – Localizing the Site
Chapter 12 – Deploying the Site

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If you think you’re well versed in ASP.NET, think again. This exceptional guide gives you a master class in site building with ASP.NET 3.5 and other cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. You learn how to develop rock-solid web portal applications that can withstand millions of hits every day while surviving scalability and security pressures � not just for mass-consumer homepages, but also for dashboards that deliver powerful content aggregation for enterprises.

Written by Omar AL Zabir, co-founder and CTO of Pageflakes, Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 demonstrates how to develop portals similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Pageflakes using ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Workflow Foundation, LINQ and .NET 3.5. Through the course of the book, AL Zabir builds an open source Ajax-enabled portal prototype (available online at www.dropthings.com), and walks you though the design and architectural challenges, advanced Ajax concepts, performance optimization techniques, and server-side scalability problems involved.

You learn how to:

• Implement a highly decoupled architecture following the popular n-tier, widget-based application model
• Provide drag-and-drop functionality, and use ASP.NET 3.5 to build the server-side part of the web layer
• Use LINQ to build the data access layer, and Windows Workflow Foundation to build the business layer as a collection of workflows
• Build client-side widgets using JavaScript for faster performance and better caching
• Get maximum performance out of the ASP.NET AJAX Framework for faster, more dynamic, and scalable sites
• Build a custom web service call handler to overcome shortcomings in ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 for asynchronous, transactional, cache-friendly web services
• Overcome JavaScript performance problems, and help the user interface load faster and be more responsive
• Solve scalability and security problems as your site grows from hundreds to millions of users
• Deploy and run a high-volume production site while solving software, hardware, hosting, and Internet infrastructure problems

Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 also presents real-world ASP.NET challenges that the author has solved in building educational and enterprise portals, plus thirteen production disasters common to web applications serving millions of users. If you’re ready to build state-of-the art, high-volume web applications, this book has exactly what you need.

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� Create Web sites using drag and drop controls

� Employ Cascading Style Sheets formatting and management

� Create Cascading Style Sheet layouts

� Create a page design using layout tables

� Create page transition effects and background sounds

� Add interactive buttons and create hyperlinks

� Create dynamic Web templates to reuse

� Create forms to gather online information

� Write, edit, and optimize code and scripts

� Use IntelliSense to help reduce coding errors

� Retrieve and present data from live RSS feeds

� Integrate data from databases or XML data

� Create dynamic Web content using ASP.NET technology

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This book uses real world examples to give you a context in which to use the task. This book also includes workshops to help you put together individual tasks into projects. The Expression Web example files that you need for project tasks are available at www.perspection.com

Perspection has written more than thirty-five books on a variety of computer software, including Microsoft Office 2007 and XP, Microsoft Windows Vista and XP, Apple Mac OS X Panther, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Macromedia Flash 8, Macromedia Director MX, and Macromedia Fireworks. In 1991, after working for Apple Computer and Microsoft, Steve Johnson founded Perspection, Inc. Perspection is committed to providing information and training to help people use software more effectively. Perspection has written more than 80 computer books, and sold more than 5 million copies.

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ASP.NET AJAX is Microsoft�s solution to this problem. ASP.NET AJAX (formerly code�named Atlas) is a set of extensions to the existing ASP.NET 2.0 technology that provides you with a fast-and-simple environment to create Ajax applications. Microsoft has combined Ajax with ASP.NET technology and provided a unified set of development tools within Visual Studio 2005. For the first time, Ajax applications can be developed seamlessly in conjunction with a supporting technology.

Foundations of ASP.NET AJAX (written by Laurence Moroney the author of Apress successful Foundations of Atlas) gives you a detailed grounding in how ASP.NET AJAX works. It takes you swiftly through the basic principles of Ajax, then deep into the heart of the technology, where every namespace is discussed and every function considered. By the end of the book, you�ll know all the essentials to confidently produce cutting-edge ASP.NET AJAX applications swiftly and professionally. You will not need any reference beyond this book.

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