Advice / Books for First ASP.Net Project

[Auguy]

I have been creating Windows Forms applications using SQL as a database. I am now starting my first web site (ASP.Net) that will probably also use SQL as the database. This application will be fairly simple and small with grids to display names and addresses and some sort of form to display the names and other information for add/edit/delete functions. Also have to include some filtering on the different location of the people, etc., nothing real hard. I'm looking for some advice and/or suggestions for books that might be beneficial for creating and installing my first ASP.Net application. I have an old "SQL Server 2000 Visual Basic.Net" book that is pretty good, but maybe something newer would be better. I have VS 2008 now and thinking of moving up to 2010.

Auguy
Sylvania/Toledo Ohio

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
These sites might be a good starting point:

http://www.w3schools.com/ASPNET/default.asp

and

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/default.aspx

To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[jmeckley]

connecting to a database... it doesn't really matter where you are connecting from. asp.net, winforms, wpf, console. ADO.Net handles all the database connectivity.

as for reference material. you should probably know about 3 main concepts.
1. asp.net is a framework for handling http requests.
2. webforms is an html view engine built on top of asp.net. this is the more common approach to .net web development because for a long time it was the only option.
3. MVC is a concept that delineates the responsiblity of the Model (data), the View (html) and the Controller (the object with marries the model to the view). There are an number of frameworks that implement the MVC concepts that are built on top of the asp.net framework as well.

i'll save my soapbox speach of webforms vs. MVC (or you can search these forums for them.) the thing to note is that webforms is completely different than all other MVC implementations.

you can read about the concepts of MVC in just about any patterns or enterprise development book. the language may change, the concepts remain the same. and in that vain. I would put more emphasis on understanding OOP patterns and concepts like S.O.L.I.D. than I would understanding webforms, MS MVC, MonoRail, Open Rasta or Fubu MVC.

Jason Meckley
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[Auguy]

Thanks to both of you for the information.

Auguy
Sylvania/Toledo Ohio