Jan-Hendrik Riemens said
I only read the first 7 chapters yet, so this review is only about this first part. I find this book very easy to understand, there are a lot of screenshots and clear explanations in every step. Its a very helpful book for every asp.net programmer!
A_2007_reader said
Just looking at the table of contents, this is a beginner's book. Everything covered here is for beginners. Try MacDonald's APress book for example, which is shorter and covers just as much.
Ronald A. Purczynski said
When I first picked up this book, I was impressed by the quantity of information. The more I read and used the book, the more I was impressed by the thoroughness and accuracy of the information.
If there was one book I was taking to a client site as a reference for an ASP.Net project, this would be the one. Since I write ASP.Net applications in both VB and C#, I especially like the fact that code examples include a version of both. Most .net books focus on a single language, but for those of us who slip and slide from one language to another, it's a slice of heaven. I would have preferred that they show the C# examples first since I use that language more often, but I'm sure the VB programmers out there will love it the way it is!
I really appreciate the detailed presentation on the comprehensive body of ASP.Net topics, but I especially thought the chapters on data binding and management were well written in an easy to understand style. Let's face it, in 99% of applications where you'd need ASP.Net, you're going to be interacting intensively with data. Although the chapter on HTML and CSS was a little out of scope, I welcomed the additional reference material in the same volume as the ASP.Net subject matter. I have never seen a more concise explanation of CSS scope and element positioning. Even though I don't consider my role as "creator of pretty web pages", it sure is handy to have a quick reference to these topics.
.Net is great and this is a great guide through it for the pro or serious learner.
Ethan Alba said
i started reading it and was immediately put off by the obscure page directives, phonebook like listing of barely necessary facts and struggled to get through the book as i was annoyed at having to learn obscure and unnecessary features while also having to re-learn everything i already knew about programming AGAIN... i only got very little NEW information from this 1600 page book, and very little of that new information was actually useful information. it was like having to dig and dig and dig through dry solid soil to many days later eventually get to the gold. the gold was there but a lot of digging was required.
at least they explain themselves well tho... ill give em that, they are great authors individually and even more so collectively. pity the book took a MSDN Knowledge Base style copy/reprint. if i wanted to read the very poor msdn documentation, i would have just picked one up from the barnes & nobel store dumpster :).
W. Smith said
This book is a great walkthrough for the beginning ASP.NET programmer. It covers all of the major topics and areas of the framework in enough detail to get you started. It has lots of example code, but only for the common scenarios. I am an advanced ASP.NET programmer and I bought the book to help me understand some of the new features in the 3.5 framework. For that purpose, the book is just okay. The coverage of Ajax, and Linq is pretty shallow, but I was able to supplement it with some Internet based research and figure out the more nuanced aspects of the framework. Overall, I think this would be a great book for the beginner, but for the advanced user looking for a detailed reference of the ASP.NET 3.5 features, this is probably not the right book.
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