Further Resources


At this point, the first iteration of our development cycle has been completed. By this point in any project, there are usually dozens of ideas for extra features that can be added, problems that can be fixed, and ideas that can be tried out. To help incorporate these, and possibilities that others have come up with, into future versions of our applications there's a wealth of information available on the Internet to help us out. Of course, there are those provided by Wrox; in addition to books such as this one, there are the online resources of:

  • http://p2p.wrox.com – Online technology discussions with tens of thousands of other programmers, all categories, and with the ability to subscribe to topics.

  • http://www.asptoday.com – A solutions library for ASP and ASP.NET developers, containing around a thousand professionally written articles and case studies covering almost all relevant topics.

  • http://www.csharptoday.com – A site similar in style to ASPToday, but focusing solely on .NET. The content here is provided in C#, rather than Visual Basic .NET, but most of the information given is relevant to this language, also.

  • http://www.wroxbase.com – Wroxbase allows subscribers to have online access to books published by Wrox Press. This allows for searching on specific information across all books, as well as real-world features such as annotation of texts, and bookmarks.

There are also many other sites out there, which contain everything from short articles and how-tos that describe specific pieces of functionality and aspects of development, right the way through to comprehensive online documentation of .NET in its entirety:

  • http://www.asp.net – The main Microsoft site for ASP.NET, which includes many useful articles, links, and downloads.

  • http://msdn.microsoft.com – Microsoft's Developer Network site, which contains online documentation for all of its programming languages and technologies, along with downloads, articles, and other resources.

  • http://www.asp101.com – An introductory site, giving information on ASP and ASP.NET, including reviews, articles, and forums.

  • http://www.15seconds.com – A site dedicated to all development for all Microsoft technologies, not just ASP.NET, covering more in-depth and advanced topics than ASP101.

  • http://www.4guysfromrolla.com – Another site containing similar information to 15 Seconds and ASP101, with the complexity and detail of articles pitched somewhere between the level of the other two.

  • http://www.123aspx.com – A resource site that indexes ASP.NET-related articles in a fully-searchable database.

Failing all of the popular sites such as those above, try entering important terms related to the subject you're interested in into a search-engine (such as Google – http://www.google.com). This will usually turn up some information on the topic due to the vast number of newsgroups, forums, magazines, and articles that are dedicated to .NET and Microsoft development in general – the chances are that you're not the first person to come across a particular problem, and it's likely to have a resolution on the Web.




Beginning Dynamic Websites with ASP. NET Web Matrix
Beginning Dynamic Websites: with ASP.NET Web Matrix (Programmer to Programmer)
ISBN: 0764543741
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 141

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