Homer shows readers how to build a site that allows the user to choose, customize and purchase a new car or truck from the world-famous 'Xrox Car Company'. To do so, he focuses on the steps of requirements-analysis and design (though not in extreme detail), followed by planning and mapping out the site.

Once the basic design in its place, Pro ASP.NET Web Forms Techniques, Second Edition will take a look at the development of the various resources that make up the complete site. It won't concentrate on the backend data processing tasks in any more detail than needed in order to get the site running. This book concentrates on the user interfaces, and using fairly simple data access techniques. You won't see detailed discussions of the workings of all of the .NET data access classes, or the long diatribes on catching and reporting concurrency errors.

'ASP.NET makes it easy to create interactive and intuitive interfaces for Web applications, and attractive and exciting Web pages. The server-based post-back architecture, combined with the comprehensive array of server controls that are provided as part of the .NET Framework, allow developers to quickly build browser-based interfaces for Web sites and Web applications - using much the same event-driven approach as in 'traditional' executable programs developed in languages like Visual Basic, Delphi and C++.'