Wiley Wrox's ASP.NET 2.0 Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit 978-0-7645-8807-5 Manuale Utente

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Getting Star ted

Developing sites and applications for the Web finally comes of age with the release of Microsoft
Visual Web Developer (VWD 2005 Express Edition) and version 2.0 of the .NET Framework. VWD
is one of the “Express” products that Microsoft provides as an expansion of the Visual Studio
product line. These are lightweight, easy-to-use, and easy-to-learn tools aimed at hobbyists, 
students, and novice developers. 

VWD is a lightweight tool for building dynamic Web sites and Web services. While there have
been other tools and technologies around for a long time, the great new features in VWD and 
.NET 2.0 make it even easier to build, test, deploy, manage, and extend your Web sites and Web
applications. This chapter starts the process of demonstrating the capabilities of VWD, and 
showing you how easy it is to build attractive, high-performance Web sites with ASP.NET 2.0.

In this chapter, you will:

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See the completed example application

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Install and set up Visual Web Developer 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express Editions

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Install the example application files for this book

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View the example database and execute a test query

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Generate a simple page that uses the example database

The last two items in this list perform two tasks. They confirm that the database is properly
installed and accessible, thus avoiding any problems that may arise later on. They also let you see
just how powerful (and yet easy to use) VWD and ASP.NET 2.0 actually are. You will be amazed at
how quickly and easily you can create a page that includes many features that previously would
have required a great deal of code and development work. 

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