This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to build rich and
interactive Microsoft ASP.NET web sites. With the knowledge you
gain from this book, you create a great foundation to build any
type of web site, ranging from simple hobby-related web sites to
sites you may be creating for commercial purposes. Using this
book’s step-by-step format you’ll learn to:
- Obtain, install, and customize Visual Web Developer (VWD)
2008
- create a new web site and how to add new pages to it.
- use the numerous tools in VWD to create HTML and ASP.NET
pages
- use the VWD tools and CSS, the language that is used to
format web pages
- What ASP.NET server controls are, what they are used for, and
how to use them
- program web pages Visual Basic or C#
- create consistent-looking pages through the use of master
pages, skins, and themes
- build the navigation structure of your site
- create and use User Controls and enhance them to repeat content
like menus and banners
- accept, validate, and process user input and send e-mail from
your ASP.NET web application
- create good looking, flicker free web page interaction with
ASP.NET Ajax
- the basics of SQL, the language used access and alter data in a
database
- use the database tools found in Visual Web Developer
- use the ASP.NET data controls to create an interface for your
users to interact with your application’s data
- use LINQ to SQL to access SQL Server databases without writing
a lot of manual code
- change the visual appearance of your data through the use of
control styles
- interact with the data-bound controls and speed up your
application
- use the security ASP.NET features to create user accounts,
distinguish between anonymous and logged on users, and manage the
users in your system
- create personalized web pages with content targeted at
individual users
- find and fix problems with VWD debugging tools
- deploy and run your final web site