Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: by Laurence Moroney

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By Laurence Moroney

This e-book is an efficient commence for someone who desires a short evaluate of internet applied sciences as provided by way of Microsoft. approximately one-third of the ebook is devoted to what might these days be referred to as "traditional" internet applied sciences in response to ASP.NET. It covers loads of parts (Web kinds, ADO.NET, internet companies, deployment), yet by no means dives very deep. the second one half specializes in the subsequent new release applied sciences for net improvement and offers an creation to WCF, WPF, WWF, Cardspace, Ajax, APS.NET AJAX and Silverlight. regrettably, it in basic terms addresses Silverlight 1.0 and a few fascinating new advancements reminiscent of LINQ and undertaking Astoria are disregarded completely.

I spotted really a few blunders within the code examples within the booklet (especially within the first part), which i believe must have been picked up by way of the reviewer.

All in all, a fascinating learn that might definitely make the person are looking to stopover at Amazon for a few extra in-depth books on a number of of the various issues they have simply develop into accustomed to.

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NET. NET should behave when serving your site. Ultimately, you were able to build a site with some pretty sophisticated functionality using only four lines of code, demonstrating just how much the framework can do behind the scenes for you! One of the concepts that you were introduced to was the web form. NET and how the technology can be used to build scalable, performant web applications. NET are the elements that you use to build the pages that the user will see. These are called web forms, terminology that is a holdover from Windows development when windows were built using forms.

Services), which will ultimately form the namespace of the proxy class you’ll be using. Change the value you find there to “QS” for “quote service,” and then click Add Reference. NET Visual Studio converts the WSDL into a C# class (the proxy) and stores it under the App_WebReferences folder, which Visual Studio also creates for you. Later in the chapter, we’ll use this quote service to actually retrieve stock quote values. Copy Web Site This enables you to copy your web site to a new location. This can be another directory on your file system or a remote directory on an FTP or IIS server.

Config is a useful and powerful tool, and something you should become familiar with. As you step through the examples in this book, you’ll be using it extensively to fine-tune and configure your site to work to the best of its abilities. NET Configuration menu option within the IDE. config, called the Web Site Administration Tool, which ensures that the settings are placed in the correct location in the file and that they are using the correct syntax. config will break your site, so be careful when editing it by hand!

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