Mark T. Chen said
It's a good fast read. Introduce the main selling points of .NET without the boring talk. Code sample and walk through of Visual Studio is an effective way of teaching most engineers with some experiences. I would agree that it may be a difficult read for the very beginners. Anyone with a couple of years experience in web development should feel fine with it.
John David Young said
This was a very good introduction to ASP.NET 3.5, but is not in-depth enough for the MCTS exam. From what I hear, Programming ASP.NET 3.5 (also from Microsoft Press) is more thorough.
Steven Benjamin said
Sadly this book is very hard to follow. It is whittled with errors, (which I can overlook if corrected on the errata webpage) Which brings me to another point. The errata page is not published in the book. This is a significant annoyance since it will take you an hour to find it... I will save you the time: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948999 (obvious right?) But this will not help you very much. It is woefully incomplete. To make matters worse this is not a wiki and information can not be easily updated. I also attempted to contact the author on his site: http://www.syncfusion.com/faq/windowsforms/default.aspx But the email controls fail and he can not be contacted. My recommendation is to stay away from this book and find one from a publisher that supports their products.
Paul E. Palubinski said
If you are getting into ASP.NET, then this book addresses the topic in detail, unlike other books that may discuss ASP.NET as just a topic on VB or C# programming. I have to say that I was not very impressed with this book as an intro to ASP.NET. I feel like the author made a lot of assumptions about the technical knowledge of the reader. Some portions contained useful information, but were written at a level which I don't think are suitable for a book called 'Step by Step'. I got a better understanding of ASP.NET from reading the section in the Visual C# 2008 Step by Step book by John Sharp.
I have found most of the ASP.NET information I need online, and have used this book mainly as a reference. I cannot think of any particular instances off the top of my head, so it probably isn't exactly fair to make this point, but I felt there were times when I came across important aspects of ASP.NET that were not mentioned in the book. Ultimately, I think if you are already pretty familiar with C# and feel comfortable with more advanced concepts in server-side web mechanics, then this might be the book for you. Otherwise, I would suggest getting something else...
Cort Johnson said
I have not read this book but I looked through it and it looked interesting - the author appears to have an engaging way of communicating - but then I noticed its only done in C#. I can understand producing an advanced text in one language but not a beginners one. As someone struggling to learn Visual Basic I'm not about to pick a text that only has C#.
If you, like me, are focused on Visual Basic I suggest you get one of the many introductory asp.net texts that offer code in both languages.
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