About This Book

About This Book

This book will teach you all you need to know to build professional quality, interactive, robust data-driven web applications.

ASP.NET is not difficult. All of the concepts are straightforward, and the Visual Studio 2005 environment simplifies the process of building powerful web applications. The difficulty in ASP.NET is only that it is so complete and flexible that there are many pieces that must be woven together to build a robust, scalable, and efficient application.

We assume you have some background with C# or sufficient programming experience to pick up what you need to know from the examples shown.

Since there are two authors' names on this book, you might be concerned that the tone will be uneven . Every possible measure has been taken to avoid this. Though each chapter was initially written by one author, all chapters were edited by both. Then every chapter was extensively edited and rewritten by Jesse Liberty to give the book a single voice. And if that weren't enough, the chapters were subsequently edited by O'Reilly editors as well as independent tech editors, and again by the authors. The bottom line is that while two authors wrote this book, you should find that it reads as if written by a single author.