What is this book about?

The C# edition of ASP.NET Website Programming Problem-Design-Solution has been phenomenally successful, gaining rave reviews for its unique approach and valuable content. The blend of theory and practice.

Now, due to demand from readers, a Visual Basic .NET edition of the book has been produced. This edition will offer the same blend of theory and practice that won so many fans for the C# edition. The book has been completely re-edited to ensure that it address the needs of ASP.net developers who use VB.net.

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
• Build websites using good, n-tier coding techniques

The site that you build is modular. You can slot the modules into your own Web site, modify them, or use them as examples of particular ASP.NET techniques.

The code will work with Visual Basic .NET Standard. However, Chapter 11 "Deploying the Site" uses some features found only in the full Visual Studio .NET. You will still be able to deploy the site, but the process will be less automated.

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 you need to know

This book is for developers who:

• Use ASP.NET and Visual Basic .NET
• Use Visual Studio® .NET Professional or above, or Visual Basic® .NET Standard

What you will learn from this book

With ASP.NET Website Programming you will learn to:

• Establish a solid, scalable website foundation
• Provide flexible user accounts by integrating with ASP.NET’s built-in security
• Create fully featured discussion forums
• Generate revenue from advertising
• Build a web interface for managing the files on your site
• Add opinion polls, e-mail newsletters, and news management
• Deploy the finished site on a live server
• Build websites using good, n-tier coding techniques

"I was very impressed with this work. This is a great book that the intermediate-to-advanced .NET developer should get their hands on. It’s very well thought-out and the lessons are plainly stated, and easy to follow."
—Jason Salas MBA MCP - Web Development Manager, KUAM.COM

Marco Bellinaso lives in a small town close to Venice, Italy. He works as a software developer and trainer for Code Architects Srl (www.codearchitects.com), an Italian company that specializes in .NET. He has been working with VB, C/C++, ASP, and other Microsoft tools for several years, specializing in User Interface, API, and ActiveX/COM design and programming, but is now spending all his time on the .NET Framework, using C# and VB.NET.
He''s been working with the .NET Framework since the Beta 1, and is now particularly interested in e-commerce design and implementation solutions with SQL Server, ASP.NET, and web services, with both C# and VB.NET. He is part of the VB-2-The-Max team (www.vb2themax.com), a popular website for VB and .NET developers, for which he writes articles and commercial software, such as add-ins for MS Visual Studio and other utilities for VB and .NET developers. In particular, he co-authored the award-winning VB Maximizer VB6 add-in.

Kevin Hoffman has always loved computers and computer programming. He first got hooked when he received a Commodore VIC-20 from his grandfather, who had repaired it after finding it in the trash. He then started a prolific but unprofitable career writing shareware games and utilities for electronic bulletin board systems.
He started working as a programmer while still in college, writing computer interfaces to solar measurement devices and various other scientific instruments. Moving to Oregon, he did everything from technical support to tuning Unix kernels, and eventually working as an ASP programmer for 800.COM, a popular on-line electronics retailer. From there he moved on to working on large, enterprise ASP applications.
Then he finally found .NET, which he now spends 100% of his programming and learning efforts on. A big C# fan, who would use it to do everything including brush his teeth if only he could figure out how, Kevin has been writing on .NET for Wrox since the middle of Beta 1. He plans to continue until we get tired of him. He''s currently in Houston, Texas sweating a lot and working on web services and other large-scale .NET applications.