Beginning ASP.NET 4.5: in C# and VB

Foreword

The Adoption Rate of Emerging Standards like HTML5 and CSS3 grows every day. Things that were only possible on thick client apps are becoming a reality on the web. With browsers getting faster and better each day, with more common tasks becoming available as reusable libraries, and with open sourcing of nearly all big web frameworks, our world wide web is a happening place. Penetration of mobile devices and the varied mobile app development technologies are making developers further consider the open and accessible web as their medium of expression.

During this time, client side libraries like jQuery and jQuery mobile, and server-side technologies like ASP.NET are making typically difficult and cumbersome tasks approachable. On top of all this, free tools like Visual Web Developer 2012 make web development more fun than ever before. It is indeed a joy to be a web developer these days, and it is nice to see this book come out and make becoming web developer approachable for everyone.

Imar Spaanjaars, the author of this book, has been a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET since 2008, and this time around we also had him join the ASP.NET Insiders group, in which we bounce feature ideas and pre-release products even before they ever get to public beta. Imar has been a constant source of feedback for the team during the development process and I am certain he will continue to be so even in the future.

In Beginning ASP.NET 4.5: in C# and VB he starts slow, goes deep, builds concepts, and ...