A. Teng said
I am a newbie to web programming (had a few years of Windows app development experience) and face the situation where I have to produce web apps in a short time. This book gave me a solid start. I had tried several bigger books but they always give me too much "theory" to digest and not enough demo on what steps to take to accomplish a task! Also, this book is definitely not limited to Expression web developers so don't skip it just because you are not a Expression web developer. Comparing to Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 web programming with VB 2005 (800 pages) which I also like, this book gives you more completed coverage on the subject with less than 500 pages. And they both take similar approach to teach the subject. Sure it doesn't tell me how to do all the "tricks" I needed to do with my app. but no book does! I wish I had found this book first so I didn't waste so much time feeling so lost and frustrated. So if you are pressed for time, need step by step instructions and need to deliver an app. quick. Start with this book.
Beagletech said
I have never built a web form. Using this book, I built a simple site that includes a contact form and a registration form. I happened to find
JimCo books and tutorials on this website [...]. The tutorials in conjuntion with the book, solved my problem. I am not a web developer, but I am cheap and these tools were the best I could find anywhere on the web.
Webhead said
I have been doing ASP.NET for a few years now and still find introductory books helpful...this book was the exception. I found the chapters that are suppose to cover a facet of ASP.NET lacked much meat at all. Many of the chapters were under 10 pages and I found that instead of offering anything concrete the author went overboard with the external links to articles, help pages, or other books!
In the books defense it will give you a limited working knowledge in topics like the ASP.NET provider model introduced in ASP.NET 2.0, as well as data enabling your web app. However this still isn't enough for me to rate it any higher. The book may be sufficent for someone with a very limited knowledge in ASP.NET however you'll find there is no depth in this book and after you are done you probably will need to continue searching for more. Leave this book alone.
my-2-cents
C. Fallon said
I must have purchased 10 books on how to develope a website from the ground up. Within the first 5 chapters, without fail, something integral to the entire website that they take for granted working, wouldn't work for me, and after a week or two of trying to fix the issue, I would normally give up. I repeated this process for about the past 6 months.
Some background on me, I'm 28, I have a BS in computer science, but generally learned nothing in college, of business value anyway. I am lightly familiar with coding/designing, if given enough time I could read the code and tell you about what most things do in C++ or VB, (And their .net equivalents), but ask me to program something, and I wouldn't even know where to start. This is why I am heavily dependant on any programing examples in a book working...
This book is definitely more a designers guide to building a website, but by that, I mean it shows you how to create a website from the ground up, and every short cut possible where you can have Visual Web Developer (VWD) button, or option do the work of coding. This is like a god send for people like me, that want to learn coding, but not as badly as we want to learn how to create .NET websites. I didn't get stuck for more than a few minutes anywhere.
There are no "stories from the trenches" that many books put in just to fill in space and bore you inbetween what you actually want to know. This book is VERY concisely written telling you what you need to know. This book does not go into great depth in any great part, it briefly touches on just about everything you could need to run your own website though and makes recommendations for either websites or books to purchase to get additional information.
In conclusion, this book is great for beginners, and I would, and have recommended it to everyone I know who, similar to me, wants to create a professional looking website, that doesn't have the programing skills to make it happen. I'd imagine though, if you are above beginner level, this book would not be for you.
Forest Majors said
Although this book is not as well written as his book on Expression Web it is still a very good training book for Expression Web Developer.
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