Murach's ASP.NET 4 with VB 2010 is for both beginner and experienced programmers who wish to develop web applications using ASP.NET 4.
The first section shows you the basics of how to use Visual Studio and ASP.NET to design and code one or multipage applications and get data from a database. You'll also learn how to test and debug your applications. Chapter 5 teaches the essential HTML and CSS skills needed to work with ASP.NET.
The second section teaches server and validation controls, and state management. You'll also learn how to develop professional looking applications using master pages, site management, site navigation, and themes.
In Section three you'll learn to use the database features of ASP.NET. You'll learn to use data sources, bound controls, including the new Listview and DataPager controls. Included are the object data sources and the new LINQ data sources which take advantage of the new Language Integrated Query (LINQ) features of Visual Basic for accessing data from many different sources.
Section four teaches how to secure your data transmissions, authenticate and authorize users, use profiles for personalization, send e-mails from your applications, and how to use the AJAX features of ASP.NET. Finally, you'll learn how to configure and deploy your ASP.NET applications, and how to create and use WCF services.
What's great about this book is that all of the features are presented in the context of complete real world applications. You'll also appreciate Murach's standard pair paged format with detailed explanations on the left and code syntax on the right.