Acknowledgments

What Is This Book About?

This book is a code-intensive, solution-oriented book. What s a solution, anyway? According to my dictionary, a solution is a way of dealing with a difficult situation so that the difficulty is removed. So what s a Web solution? It s removing all stumbling blocks that, scattered here and there, can slow down the development of a Web application. The nature of the Web hasn t changed with the advent of .NET, but the tools available to you are undergoing a radical change. ASP.NET and ADO.NET are the principal new tools for building effective Web applications that rely on the .NET platform.

Being solution- and task-oriented, this book is not about writing .NET Web applications. Neither is it a core reference book about ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Web services, nor any other technology mentioned in these pages. The book targets a relatively advanced audience. You will not find it to be a detailed programmer s reference for ASP.NET controls or ADO.NET classes, so be prepared to use it in conjunction with a more basic book and the MSDN online documentation.

Just because I focus on solutions and tasks, don t wait until you have a tough problem to solve before you read the book. Prevention is always the best policy! By knowing the techniques and familiarizing yourself with the technologies, you are in a good position to tackle applications in the future.

The book explains the plumbing in .NET Web applications and how your code can and should interact with ASP.NET and ADO.NET classes. Accessing data from within ASP.NET applications and data binding are the core topics of the book. Data access and data reporting represent a routine task for almost all Web applications. For this reason, there s a growing demand for an infrastructure that provides automatic binding between data sources and elements of applications. In .NET, several effective data bound controls allow you to easily associate rows of data with graphical HTML elements such as drop-down lists or tables. The power of ASP.NET and ADO.NET is evident when you use server controls in the context of Web applications. Data bound controls and data management code are used in the same way regardless of the programming model Windows Forms, Web Forms, or even Web services.



Building Web Solutions with ASP. NET and ADO. NET
Building Web Solutions with ASP.Net and ADO.NET
ISBN: 0735615780
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 75
Authors: Dino Esposito

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