ASP.NET Distributed Data Applications
Product Description
This book will inspire you with a range of ideas on how data can be used to drive Web applications, and how that data can be most effectively utilized at each level of the design. Inefficient data use leads to the sort of slow, unresponsive Web applications that nobody enjoys using. By making good use of both server and client-side code, we can solve these problems. This book will arm you with the techniques you need to build Web applications that fly.
The book is a voyage of exploration through almost all aspects of building ASP.NET applications that handle data and work across the Internet (or other HTTP networks, such as local Intranets). It takes a practical approach to building task-specific components, Web pages and Web applications based on a server running ASP.NET. The book focusses on n-tier architecture design and the way it can be coded, using SQL Server as a data source and simple Web server hardware.
The ASP.NET code in this book is presented in VB.NET, while client-side code is presented in JavaScript. A C# version of the code is also available for download from the Wrox website along with the VB.NET.
This book will cover:
* The new .NET philosophy for managing relational and XML data
* The techniques you need to make this philosophy work in the real world
* Solid, n-tier architecture design
* Using the .NET data management classes to access and update a data store
* Maintaining data integrity by efficiently resolving concurrency errors
* Techniques for building reusable, task-specific data tier components
* How to design applications to exploit many different kinds of client device
ASP.NET Distributed Data Applications
ASP.NET Distributed Data Applications, is an excellent book for learning ASP.NET database programming. At the moment I am on chapter 8 all the examples which I downloaded from wrox, all work. The book is very detailed with many methods and ideas of contructing a database web application. its not a book for beginners. A person with good basic asp.net or vb.net knowledge will get most from this book. Excellent buy and worth the money.
Rating: 5 / 5
If youve read one of the many titles detailing the in’s and outs of ASP.NET and its architecture as i have, then your probably looking for something that fills the gaps. This book expects a reasonable understanding of ASP.NET and cuts straight to the chase in designing and building data driven sites. The annoying thing about ASP.NET books, and the help that comes with it is the lack of information about editing / updating data sources and the intricacies involved. Thankfully this is one read that covers it in detail, AND explains it well.
Rating: 4 / 5
If you’re seeking to build a data-driven ASP.NET application that provides any kind of a user experience beyond the classic approach of posting the page back to the server every time you select or edit data, this book is a MUST READ. It shows how to maximize the user experience and client responsiveness under whatever set of design constraints your client-side scenario imposes-from basic HTML-enabled browsers to IE 4.0 and IE 5.0, with or without the distributable .NET framework, and small-screen HTML-enabled devices, mobile devices, and cell-phones.
The list of technologies you can employ to achieve these ends can be daunting-n-tier design, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, client-side scripting, XML, web services, web service behavior, .NET remoting, WML. The beauty of this book is that the authors put each into perspective as to the role they may or may not play in each design scenario. Then they go on to demonstrate a solution that integrates the relevant technologies to achieve the end. Their discussion of batch updating issues in a disconnected world and several solution approaches is especially valuable.
And, like most Wrox books, they don’t just plunk you down in the middle of the forest to leave you wondering why and how you got there. They briefly introduce each technology with an overview and short discussion on its relevancy to what you want to accomplish, a viewpoint that tends to be sorely lacking in many other books and help files. And-a dash of wit and humor here and there helps the medicine go down in a most enjoyable way!
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is practical and well written. If you want to write the type of app they cover, you’ll find all the nitty-gritty details here. I deducted a star because the book goes into too much detail; it gets boring. They should have assumed a sharper reader and picked up the pace.
BUT… Do you really want to build the type of app they spend the most time on? This would be an app that makes heavy use of XML and DOM within IE (no discussion of XML and DOM in other browsers) to simulate a true client/server architecture. It all seems very complicated, error prone, and hard to maintain.
P. S. You could learn a lot for free just by downloading and examining the sample code from the Wrox web site.
Rating: 4 / 5
If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent the past couple of months dredging over hundreds of pages worth of material online… and like most, you’ve probably said to yourself, “How does it all fit together and how do I use .NET effectively to build a distributed data application?”
This is the book that, for me at least, closed the gap. I had remained dormant on a project for days due to important design decisions that I needed to make BEFORE I started programming. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the answer and I couldn’t find what I wanted online.
This book goes WAY beyond what I thought I needed to know and contains a magnitude of information that I didn’t realize I needed to know!
Rating: 4 / 5