Expert ASP.NET 2.0 Advanced Application Design will help you derive maximum performance and reliability from the distributed applications you create with ASP.NET 2.0.
The book first looks at some of the non-functional requirements that
impact the design of a distributed application. It then relates them to
the servers and services available in the .NET 2.0 Framework. ASP.NET
2.0 is the central process for use in distributed .NET applications,
and the book closely examines the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework and its hosting
environment, Internet Information Server (IIS). The book looks at how
ASP.NET 2.0 is used by different packages within .NET (like Web
Services), and explores how it can be extended to meet your own custom
requirements.
The second part of the book drills down and examines some of the
common architectural challenges encountered when developing application
designs. The book walks through the tiers of the .NET Framework,
starting at the client level and exploring the internals of the page
type, enhancements to ViewState, client script generation, and new
out-of-band callbacks. At the middle tier, the book examines Web
Services, Remoting, COM+, MSMQ, and mix and match communication options
to suit your own requirements. This section wraps up by previewing
Windows Communication Foundation, which aims to unify these
technologies.
The third part of the book examines the data layer of your
distributed applications. This includes enhancements to the Managed
Providers in 2.0, the new transactional model, and a preview of usage
guidelines for SQL Server 2005. By the book’s conclusion, you will be
able to select with confidence the most appropriate design elements for
your purposes, elegantly connecting them, and ensuring you get the very
best from the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework.
About the Authors
Dominic Selly
is an Intertech trainer and consultant. He has put scores of ASP.NET
applications into production for large enterprise companies and
universities. He also teaches developers ASP.NET, VB .NET, C#, XML,
Visual Basic, ASP, and SQL Server. He is the author of a 5-day ASP.NET
course and co-created the Web Application Development Certificate
program at George Washington University in Washington. He is the
coauthor of Visual Basic .NET at Work, and he has been creating
software for over a dozen years. In his copious free time, he lectures
at VSLive, Connections, and SD Expo conferences.
Andrew
Troelsen is a partner, trainer, and consultant at Intertech-Inc., and
is a leading authority on both .NET and COM. His book C# and the .NET Platform
won the prestigious 2003 Referenceware Excellence Award and is now in
its second edition. Also of note are his earlier five-star treatment of
traditional COM in the bestselling Developer's Workshop to COM and ATL mirrored in his book, COM and .NET Interoperability, and his top-notch investigation of VB .NET in Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Platform: An Advanced Guide.
Troelsen has a degree in mathematical linguistics and South Asian
studies from the University of Minnesota and is a frequent speaker at
numerous .NET-related conferences. He currently lives in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, with his wife, Amanda, and spends his free time
investigating .NET and waiting for the Wild to win the Stanley Cup.
Tom Barnaby is a Microsoft Consultant, C# MVP, national speaker, and author of several .NET books including Distributed .NET Programming in C#, and Applied .NET Attributes.
In his spare time, Tom enjoys playing with his two sons, watching
movies in the family home theater room, and banging out power chords on
his electric guitar with the volume turned to 11.
