Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 With Visual C# .Net 2003

891 Pages·2004·18.199 MB·English

by  Chris Ullman, John Kauffman, Chris Hart, Dave Sussman, Daniel Maharry

Beginning ASP.NET 1.1
with Visual C#® .NET 2003
Chris Ullman
John Kauffman
Chris Hart
Dave Sussman
Daniel Maharry
Wiley Publishing, Inc.

Beginning ASP.NET 1.1
with Visual C#® .NET 2003

Beginning ASP.NET 1.1
with Visual C#® .NET 2003
Chris Ullman
John Kauffman
Chris Hart
Dave Sussman
Daniel Maharry
Wiley Publishing, Inc.
Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 with Visual C#® .NET 2003
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About the Authors
Chris Ullman
Chris Ullman is a freelance Web developer and technical author who has spent many years stewing in
ASP/ASP.NET, like a teabag left too long in the pot. Coming from a Computer Science background, he
started initially as a UNIX/Linux guru, who gravitated towards MS technologies during the summer of
ASP(1997). He cut his teeth on Wrox Press ASPguides, and since then he has written over 20 books,
most notably as lead author for Wrox's bestselling Beginning ASP/ASP.NET series, and has contributed
chapters to books on PHP, ColdFusion, JavaScript, Web Services, C#, XMLand other Internet-related
technologies too esoteric to mention, now swallowed up in the quicksands of the dot.com boom.
Quitting Wrox as a full-time employee in August 2001, he branched out into VB6 programming and ASP
development, maintaining a multitude of sites from http://www.cuasp.co.co.uk, his "work" site, to
http://www.atomicwise.com, a selection of his writings on music and art. He now divides his time
between being a human punchbag for his 29-month-old son Nye, composing electronic sounds on bits
of dilapidated old keyboards for his music project Open E, and tutoring his cats in the art of peaceful
co-existence, and not violently mugging each other on the stairs.
Chris Ullman contributed Chapters 1, 14, 15, 16, 17, and Appendix E to this book.
John Kauffman
John Kauffman was born in Philadelphia, the son of a chemist and a nurse. He received his degrees from
The Pennsylvania State University, the colleges of Science and Agriculture. His early research was for
Hershey foods in the genetics of the chocolate tree and the molecular biology of chocolate production.
Subsequently, he moved to the Rockefeller University, where he cloned and sequenced DNAregions that
control the day and night cycles of plants.
Since 1997, John has written ten books, six of which have been on the Amazon Computer Best Seller
List. His specialty is programming Web front-ends for enterprise-level databases.
In his spare time, John is an avid sailor and youth sailing coach. He represented the USAin the sailing
World Championship of 1985 and assisted the Olympic teams of Belgium and China in 1996. He also
enjoys jazz music and drumming and manages to read the New Yorkerfrom cover-to-cover each week.
My portions of this book are dedicated to the instructors of two drum and bugle corps. These men
taught me about precision, accuracy, and discipline: Ken Green and John Flowers of the Belvederes 1976
and Dennis DeLucia and Bobby Hoffman of the Bayonne Bridgemen 1978.
John Kauffman contributed Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and Appendix B to this book.
Chris Hart
Chris Hart is a full-time .NET Developer and part-time author who lives in Birmingham (UK) with her
husband James. While she's most at home in the world of the Web, she's recently been working with the
.NET Compact Framework. In her spare time, Chris spends much of her time playing with beta
technologies, and then attempting to write about them.
Chris has contributed many chapters to a variety of books, including Beginning ASP.NET (Wrox Press),
Beginning Dynamic Websites with ASP.NET Web Matrix (Wrox Press), and most recently, AProgrammer's
Guide to SQL(Apress).
When she gets away from computers, Chris enjoys travel, especially when it involves driving along
narrow winding roads to get to out-of-the-way parts of Scotland. She dreams of building her own house
somewhere where she can keep a cat.
Chris Hart contributed Chapters 10, 11, 12, 13, and Appendices C and D to this book.
Dave Sussman
Dave Sussman is a writer, trainer, and consultant, living in the wilds of the Oxfordshire countryside.
He's been working with ASP.NET since before it was first released and still isn't bored with it. You can
contact him at [email protected].
Dave Sussman contributed Chapters 7, 8, and 9 to this book.
Daniel Maharry
Dan Maharry is a freelance writer, reviewer, speaker, and editor who has, in no particular order, taught
English, Math, and Guitar, directed, crewed, acted in, and produced several plays and short films, been a
film and music columnist for four years, co-founded ASPToday.com, rewritten his own at HMobius.com
several times, opened an office in India, variously edited, reviewed, and written pieces of over 40
programming books, qualified as a sound engineer, and consumed enough caffeine in his lifetime to
keep most of China awake for a week. Occasionally, he sleeps. Sometimes. Contact him at
[email protected].
"With deep-felt love to Jane, and in memoriam to John Kauffman's father."
Dan Maharry contributed Chapters 5 and 6 to this book.
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