Expression Web is Microsoft’s newest tool for creating and maintaining dynamic Web sites. This FrontPage replacement offers all the simple “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” tools for creating a Web site along with some pumped up new features for working with Cascading Style Sheets and other design options. Microsoft Expression Web For Dummies arrives in time for early adopters to get a feel for how to build an attractive Web site. Author Linda Hefferman teams up with longtime FrontPage For Dummies author Asha Dornfest to show the easy way for first-time Web designers, FrontPage vets, or users of other Web design tools how to get results from Expression Web.

From the Back Cover
Covers tools for beginners and Web design pros

Create and maintain dynamic Web sites that express your personality!

Expression Web is Microsoft’s latest program for designing attractive, easy-to-navigate Web sites. Design beginners will love this book’s plain-English explanations on how to set up a new site and create Web pages. Design pros will benefit from shortcuts showing how Expression Web makes tasks like using style sheets and complying with Web standards a breeze.

• Work with text, hyperlinks, and graphics
• Use templates to streamline your site
• Tweak your pages with CSS and HTML
• Publish your site on the Internet
• Back up and move your site

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Are you ready to build more responsive web applications with richer UI elements? This detailed guide to the Microsoft AJAX Library shows you how to bring together ASP.NET 2.0 with an object-oriented approach to JavaScript development using this new framework from Microsoft. You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the ASP.NET AJAX architecture, including the server controls, client-side JavaScript library, and runtime environment. By following the numerous examples, you’ll see how much your users benefit from this new class of web applications that manipulate the browser’s DOM and communicate with the server to update the user’s view of a page without waiting for the entire page to be refreshed.

Written by Microsoft’s lead ASP.NET AJAX developer together with an in-the-field Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), this book guides you through the core of the Microsoft AJAX Library and the controls you will use to leverage AJAX. It provides you with code samples to take advantage of some of the popular shared-source ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit controls and extensions. And you’ll work through debugging functionality in Visual Studio® and the browser as well as methods for effective testing.

What you will learn from this book

• How to create a better user experience by adding more dynamic UIs
• Steps for accessing ASP.NET profile and authentication services
• Ways to simplify programming tasks using the Microsoft AJAX Library
• Strategies for testing web applications to achieve optimal performance
• Methods for developing custom AJAX controls

Who this book is for

This book is for experienced ASP.NET developers who want to add AJAX to their applications. It is also for experienced web developers who want to move to ASP.NET and AJAX together.

Unlike many other ASP.NET books that show examples for individual pages or features, the example in this book is an integrated end-to-end site (written in C#). The entire book and site has been written specifically for ASP.NET 2.0, to use the ASP.NET 2.0 features wherever they make sense.

The end-result is a website which features a layout with user-selectable themes, a membership system, a content management system for publishing and syndicating articles and photos, polls, mailing lists, forums, an e-commerce store with support for real-time credit card processing, homepage personalization, and localization. The book leads the reader through development of a site with:

Account registration, personalization and theming
News and events, organized into categories
Opinion polls
Newsletter
Forums
E-commerce store with shopping cart and order management
Localization
Administration of a site will be covered including:
Full online back-end administrative section, to manage practically all data from an intuitive user interface
Site deployment
In building these site features, you’ll learn these new ASP.NET 2.0 features:
Master pages
Theming
Personalization & Web parts
Membership & Profile modules
Personalization
The new server-side UI controls such as GridView, DetailsView, FormView, Wizard, MultiView, the new xxxDataSource and navigation controls, among others.
The new compilation mode and deployment modes
The new framework for instrumenting the site, as well as handling & logging exceptions
The new ADO.NET 2.0 features (e.g. caching with database dependency)
The new classes for easy distributed transactions Management

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You’ll also learn about the new features of ADO.NET and ASP.NET in .NET 2.0. The authors cover mission-critical issues, such as design, transactions, error handling, optimization, and scalability. They examine SQL Server, Jet, and MySQL databases, and highlight the differences among them.

This comprehensive resource is packed with information about 2.0 beta improvements and building database-driven websites. You will obtain practical solutions, learn multiple routes to achieve success, and examine a handy case study to wrap up core content.

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Professional ASP.NET 2.0 XML (Programmer to Programmer) by Thiru Thangarathinam
Publisher: Wrox (January 18, 2006)
600 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 0764596772

The foundation for most Web services, XML can also be used with ASP.NET to display data from an infinite variety of sources in a Web site After covering the basics, the book explores the many ways that XML documents can be created, transformed, and transmitted to other systems using ASP.NET 2.0 Two major case studies address issues such as reading and writing XML data, XML data validation, transforming XML Data with XSLT, SQL Server XML integration, XML support in ADO.NET, and XML Web Services. You?????ll also learn more about SQL Server 2005 XML features, XML serialization, and XML Web services. You?????ll see how XML can be used to increase application efficiency and reach. Two helpful real-life case studies used throughout the book demonstrate the many ways that XML documents can be created, transformed, and transmitted to other systems using ASP.NET.

What you will learn from this book

* How to read and write XML data
* Advanced Web service concepts such as SOAP headers and extensions
* Using XmlSerializer to serialize XML documents as XML data
* Techniques to build programs or scripts that create, read, and update settings in web.config and machine.config files
* How to create an XSD schema in Visual Studio??? 2005
* Tips on working with typed and untyped data type columns
* How to get a head start with Microsoft?????s new ???Atlas??? Ajax technology for ASP.NET and XML

Who this book is for

This book is for intermediate to experienced programmers who are already familiar with XML and want to gain a clear understanding of ASP.NET development. Some basic knowledge of C# is necessary.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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Mastering Web Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 by John Paul Mueller
Publisher: Sybex (December 5, 2005)
848 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 078214439X

For large-scale web application development, Visual Studio 2005 is the most capable product around. This book shows team members and leaders how to use its power in several key dimensions. You?????ll master dozens of built-in features for creating a large, high-performance website based on ASP.NET 2.0. You?????ll work seamlessly with dynamic data, both reading from and writing to databases. And throughout, you?????ll learn how Visual Studio 2005 supports a more efficient group process in terms of design, development, and deployment. And everything is brought together with the enterprise-scale example, ???ABC Incorporated,??? that runs throughout the book. This is a book no web developer, and no web-dependent organization, should be without.

Coverage Includes

* Reaping the benefits of master pages and themes
* Generating site maps and other navigational aids automatically
* Building a shopping cart application for your website
* Adding search functionality to your website
* Creating a flexible user environment using Webpart technology
* Increasing application performance using client-side and server-side scripting technologies
* Giving users the ability to change the website?????s theme to meet specific needs
* Using components and controls to add special effects and user customization
* Improving team efficiency using modern development and design techniques
* Monitoring and responding to usage statistics
* Combining technologies to get the best possible results from large applications
* Making your site accessible to everyone

Master Standards-Based Web Development Techniques New to Visual Studio 2005. Discover How Visual Studio 2005 Solves Team Development Issues, Such as Source Code Control and Application Design. Simplify Database Application Development without Compromising Security or Reliability.

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Will help developers from a mainframe environment transition to the OOP world. This book will have you writing ASP.NET web sites based on OOP concepts in no time!

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Beginning ASP .NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005: From Novice to Professional by Cristian Darie, Karli Watson
Publisher: Apress (October 17, 2005)
704 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 1590594681

You will learn how to build a complete e-commerce web site, following the entire design and build process. The website will be constructed following industry best practices in a modular mannerandemdash;with a new module introduced and completed in each chapter.

Cristian Darie is a software enginner with experience in a wide range of modern technologies, and is the author of numerous technical books, including the popular ???Beginning E-Commerce??? series. Having worked with computers since he was old enough to press the keyboard, he initially tasted programming success with a first prize in his first programming contest at the age of 12. From there, Cristian moved on to many other similar achievements, and now he is studying distributed application architectures for his Ph.D. He always loves hearing feedback about his books, so don?????t hesitate to drop a ???hello??? message when you have a spare moment.Cristian can be contacted through his personal website at www.CristianDarie.ro. Karli Watson is the technical director of 3form, as well as a freelance IT specialist, author, developer, and consultant. For the most part, he indulges in .NET and related technologies and has written numerous books about them. He has extensive knowledge of programming database-driven websites and has authored on the titles Beginning ASP .NET 2.0 E-Commerce, Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 E-Commerce, The Programmer?????s Guide to SQL, Professional C#, Second Edition, and Professional ASP.NET 1.0.

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