For VB developers:
Free chapter on master pages
from new ASP.NET 2.0 upgrade guide
Murach Books is offering a free chapter from their new book, Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 Upgrader's Guide: VB Edition, at their web site at www.murach.com/books/ugvb/index.htm. Chapter 3, "How to use master pages," shows how to use the new ASP.NET 2.0 master pages feature to easily include banners, navigation menus, and other elements on all of the pages in a web application. It's a powerful, time-saving feature that most developers will want to use in every new application they create.
The Upgrader's Guide is written specifically for experienced ASP.NET developers who use VB (a separate edition for C# developers is also available). So instead of teaching web programming from scratch, it focuses on the most significant new features in ASP.NET 2.0. But besides just telling what's new, this book also shows how to implement the new features in everyday web pages.
So after an overview of what's new in chapter 1, the remaining 15 chapters each present a new feature in depth. These features include the Access, SQL, and XML data sources; the GridView, DetailView, and FormView controls; object data sources that allow binding to custom business objects; login and site navigation controls; profiles; the MultiView and Wizard controls; themes; web parts for building portals; and tools for configuring and deploying new applications. A complete table of contents is also available at the Murach site.
Murach’s ASP.NET 2.0 Upgrader’s Guide: VB Edition is available directly from the publisher at www.murach.com and from online and brick-and-mortar bookstores.
###
FOR REVIEW COPIES, a cover image, a sample chapter, or more information:
Murach’s ASP.NET 2.0 Upgrader’s Guide: VB Edition
Authors: Anne Boehm and Joel Murach
Pages: 526 ISBN: 1-890774-36-7 Price: $39.50