ASP.NET Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004

by Kevin Marshall, Costas Hadjisotiriou, Rachel Andrew

Overview

This concise, no-nonsense book teaches you how to develop accessible, standards-compliant ASP.NET-driven web sites with ASP.NET and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004. Real-world tutorials will help you achieve results quickly as you plunge into the text.

You'll learn the fundamental concepts of the .NET Framework, then quickly move on to the workings of ASP.NET within the Framework. You will explore databases and SQL, in preparation for handling ASP.NET databound controls. Next, you'll explore the core role that XML, and XML web services play in .NET. Finally, you'll learn about Dreamweaver's extensibility and coding efficiency features—two of the most important aspects of developing with Dreamweaver.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590593486
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	04/23/2004
Series:	Expert's Voice
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Kevin Marshall is a software developer at heart. He is a consultant to a number of companies and currently runs 50+ sites of his own many of which are now happily taking advantage of ActiveRecord with the Ruby on Rails framework, including the popular DraftWizard.com. As a technology writer, Kevin has published a short article, "Web Services with Rails," contributed a few recipes to the Ruby Cookbook, and contributed a number of articles to the Association of Computing Machinery's periodical, Computing Reviews (available online at Reviews.com). Kevin is also a member of the Pro Football Writers Association, the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, and the Fantasy Sports Writers Association. When he's not deep into coding, building content, or talking football, he's generally off playing with his sons. To learn more about what he's up to right now, you can visit his company site, Falicon.com, or just drop him a note at [e-mail].

Table of Contents

1 Introducing Dreamweaver.- 2 Web Standards in Dreamweaver.- 3 Introducing ASP.NET.- 4 ASP.NET Features and Syntax.- 5 Introducing .NET and Databases.- 6 Data Applications.- 7 Working with XML in ASP.NET.- 8 Reusing Code in Dreamweaver and ASP.NET.- 9 Extending Dreamweaver MX.- 10 Debugging and Error Handling.- 11 Case Study.- Appendix Migrating ASP to ASP.NET.- ASP.NET Improvements.- Migration Considerations.- The Example Web Site.- ASP to ASP.NET Web Form Controls.- Appearance Properties.- Client Script Migration.- Summary.