This Starter Kit serves as an entry-level introduction centered around prebuilt projects that developers can easily deploy and customize for their own sites Explains how to build good basic Web sites, including design and architecture, for users who plan to build more complex sites in the future Details the key site features that beginners like to implement, including catalogs, shopping carts, images, and secure site sections The authors use very little code, but where coding is needed, they feature the simple Visual Basic language The CD-ROM includes Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition

This Starter Kit serves as an entry-level introduction centered around prebuilt projects that developers can easily deploy and customize for their own sites Explains how to build good basic Web sites, including design and architecture, for users who plan to build more complex sites in the future Details the key site features that beginners like to implement, including catalogs, shopping carts, images, and secure site sections The authors use very little code, but where coding is needed, they feature the simple Visual Basic language The CD-ROM includes Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition

Visual Web Developer Express Edition is a low-cost, entry-level version centered around pre-built projects that new developers can easily deploy and customize for their own sites Explains how to harness "drag-and-drop" tools that build on the popularity of ASP.NET, offering Web designers an easy introduction to the new Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Framework Shows novice Web developers step by step how to create powerful ASP.NET Web applications Explains how to access databases through Data Source controls, design site navigation, build interactivity, and much more

Market_Desc: · Beginners who have no previous experience in ASP, VB or C#, XML, OOP, or the .NET framework. · Secondarily, many ASP 3 users who have no experience with ASP.NET 1.x Special Features: · Wrox! Updated bestseller: Previous editions on ASP.NET 1.0 sold more than 58,000 copies and the new 2.0 book is off to a strong start.· C# is becoming the default Microsoft language for many developers. As businesses adopt C# for Windows apps the web developers use ASP.NET with C# for consistency. So even web developers without a C# background are using ASP.NET with C#.· ASP.NET 2.0 book sales are the hottest category of Visual Studio sales followed by C# 2005. About The Book: This book continues the strong Wrox Beginning tradition with an approach featuring numerous detailed examples, step by step teaching, and clear explanations of how each key bit of code works. The book takes a task oriented approach, teaching readers how to build a specific part of a complete web site.With the introduction of the Visual Web Developer tool, there's no need for ASP.NET coders - especially beginners - to hand code any pages. In fact, starting an ASP.NET 2.0 site with Visual Web Developer is so easy that the first several chapters of the book can be done with very little code at all.When the book does get to more code intensive chapters in the 2nd half of the book, C# is the language used in the examples here. Even then, the authors do their best to show readers the minimum amount of code they need to write to accomplish a task, continuing to work as much as possible with the tools built into Visual Web Developer.