Mark P. said
This was a good book back in 2001 because there wasn't much available. It is more than useless now. There are loads of typos and the code techniques used are not best practice. Don't even think of getting it 2nd-hand at a bargain price; better get a later edition.
Eric Kassan said
An essential reference for anyone doing professional ASP.NET development. As with any of these 1000+ page books, this book is not meant for cover-to-cover reading. This book is pretty well written and is a good source to learn more about a particular area of ASP.NET, but the book's core strength is serving as a reference allowing you to solve specific problems as they are encountered.
Anonymous said
This book is excellent for ASP.net.The way the book has been written , it had me hooked to it from page one to the end like a thriller!!!!And i easily passed the MCAD/MCSD paper (Exam 70-305 on ASP.net) at the first attempt ,simply by reading this book and little bit on MSDN online.I would highly recommend this book for those who want to give MCAD by really understanding the subject and not by taking shortcuts like braindumps etc.
Anonymous said
This isn't the greatest book, but it's not that bad either. There's over 1000 pages of explanations and examples. I thought in general the coverage wasn't bad. There are shortcomings in deployment, packaging and internationalization topics. Your understanding of .NET and ASP.NET will improve greatly by reading this book. Are there better books out there? By now, most likely YES. But for the time that this came out, there weren't many books covering this topic.
Dan said
We have purchased WROX books such as Professional ASP 3 and have been generally happy with the quality. Hence we didn't hesitate to purchase this version. However having received it , we have found it a rushed poorly edited book based on the BETA version of .NET. Thes structure is poor, detail too low and many errors.
I'm afraid that we would have to advise not to purchase this book.
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