Imar Spaanjaars - Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1 in C# and VB

Imar Spaanjaars

Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1: in C# and VB

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To Niek

IMAR SPAANJAARS graduated in Leisure Management at the Leisure Management School in the Netherlands, but he quickly changed his career path to the Internet world.

After working in the Internet business at various web agencies for over twelve years, he now runs his own company called De Vier Koeden (http://devierkoeden.com), a small Internet agency specializing in consultancy and development of Internet and intranet applications with Microsoft technologies such as ASP.NET 4.5.1. Hes also the CTO of Dynamicweb North America, the U.S. branch of the popular Danish content management, e-commerce, and online marketing platform.

Imar has written books on ASP.NET and Macromedia Dreamweaver, all published under the Wrox brand. He is also one of the top contributors to the Wrox Community Forum at p2p.wrox.com, where he shares his knowledge with fellow programmers.

Imar has received Microsofts Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award each year since 2008 for his contributions to the ASP.NET community. In early 2012, Imar joined the ASPInsiders, a small group of international professionals that provide feedback and direction on new features for future versions of ASP.NET.

Imar lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands, with his girlfriend Fleur and his son Niek. You can contact him through his personal website at .

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ALTHOUGH THE JUMP in version number by only 0.1 seems to suggest that theres not much new in ASP.NET 4.5.1 or Visual Studio 2013, youd be surprised at the number of changessmall and largethat made their way into these products. I spent the past couple of months working on updating this book from the .NET 4.5 release to the new .NET 4.5.1 release. I discovered new features and functionality every day. Some of those changes are really small, but could mean a boost in productivity on a day-to-day basis. Others are much bigger and affect the way you build or deploy your websites. I tried to incorporate all the new features found in ASP.NET and Visual Studio that will make sense for you, someone with no or limited experience with ASP.NET.

I have also made a lot of changes to the book based on reader feedback. Just as with the previous versions of the book, I went over all the errata that have been submitted as well as over the hundreds of forum posts that were made, identifying areas in the book that readers had difficulties with, and finding ways to improve it. If you have the previous edition and posted a question in the Wrox forums: thanks for your valuable feedback; youve really helped to make this book better.

Besides my readers, I owe a lot to other people who helped me write this book.

First of all, a big thanks goes out to Brian Herrmann for his editorial work. Once again, it was a pleasure to work with you! I also want to thank Jason Gaylord for his many useful suggestions he provided as a technical editor. Both of you really helped shape this book. Many thanks also to the people from Wrox for their support and contributions to this book.