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Summary: Excellent organization
Review: Good points:
1.Excellent book organization, good and short subsections
2.Excellent code examples - sweet and short and illustrates the concept well.
3.Excellent explanations
4.Explains various methods to do a certain thing and tells of the pros and cons of each method.Bad points:
1. Some of the sections/code need not be repeated in the ADO section as it is obvious. This can help in reducing size of book.
2. Visual basic code instead of C#
3. No visual .net studio explanations
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Summary: Comprehensive overview of ASP.net
Review: This book is an extremely helpful overview of what you can do using ASP.net. I found it easy as a beginner to grasp the concepts and get started developing. Now that I have more experience, I still refer to it often as a reference. The main shortcoming was that it does not discuss in-depth some of the performance optimization issues, such as how to code using the strict compilation option. (But there are plenty of newsgroups out there with that kind of information.) This is the most comprehensive and readable overview of ASP.net that I have come across.
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Summary: Good book for beginners
Review: This book would be a good reference for people looking for a first introduction to ASP.NET... Examples are clear, this book covers most of the important topics you must know to develop you first project using .NET for the Web. After you read it, ASP.NET and .NET framework will be more comprehensible, even if you don't know a specific language
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Summary: a lot of how, not much why
Review: If you want to know how to do something (i. e., what code to type in) this book is pretty good. But if what you want to do isn't covered (or is poorly covered, which happens with some of the subjects), you're out of luck because this book doesn't explain why things are the way they are. Although I've only thumbed through it, I'd take a hard look at O'Reilly's Programming ADO.NET before buying this.
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Summary: VB.NET / Notepad
Review: I got to page 10 or 11 of this book and found out all of the code samples are written in VB.NET in Notepad. Maybe I'm being foolish but I prefer to use C# and VS and don't want to waste time trying to locate mistakes when they occur. For example - I get a compile error. Is it the translated C# code I wrote? Is it the author's VB.NET code that has the mistake? Is it because I'm not compiling correctly? I'm new to web programming so I don't need these distractions. This may be a good book for you but it isn't the book for me.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: My first project out of University back in late 1995 was supplemented considerably by the use of a SAMS Unleashed book, CGI unleashed I think it was called. This book was a godsend and endeared me greatly to the Unleashed series. So now I return to coding using a later generation technology (replacing CGI some may argue) and this brings me to the current book. As a reference, this is undeniably good, perhaps the best, sheer volume (1435 pages) is amazing, and everything is pertinent to developing .NET applications. It's a great book that deserves to be as popular as it is. The Visual Studio IDE is rarely mentioned, a good sign, as this purely focuses on development using concepts, not page filling waffle on how to use the MS IDE (and remember other IDE's such as JSharp are now also becoming available!). As a one volume .NET reference this is the best. Buy it and confirm that fact for yourself.
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Summary: DONT BOTHER READING CHAPTER 7
Review: The book is just fine...until Chapter 7 on "Targeting Mobile Devices with Mobile Controls." Several of the examples, straight from the book, do not work. If they do work, they often work only in IE 6.0 with MMIT installed and NOT on Nokia's Mobile Internet Toolkit or Openwave's Emulator (both of these emulators are RECOMMENDED by the author!) If they dont work in the emulators then how can you expect the pages to work on a REAL CELL PHONE!
My Suggestion Mr. Walther ---
TEST YOUR CODE BEFORE YOU PUBLISH IT!
I'm about to throw away this book after reading chapter 7, its garbage!
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Summary: Good beginner to intermediate developer's book
Review: I have about 6 different asp.net books in my library and this one is the one that I found to provide the best foundation to understanding asp.net. Yes, it doesn't use Visual Studio IDE, but frankly I think that is a good idea, as it forces you to really understand what is going on "behind the scenes" rather than let VS .Net "do it automatically" for you... ONE CAUTION: this book's binder falls apart after a month heavy use...
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Summary: Good Book
Review: This book is great if you want to learn ASP.NET. Within a week I was programming with confidents. However, I don't like it as a reference guide only because this book has an index that [is bad]. It has the main points listed in the index but it's missing alot of topics that were discussed thoughout the book. I still recommend this book since it helped me go from Classic ASP to ASP.NET with ease.
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Summary: FOR WEB HACKS
Review: This book isn't for developers and isn't for Visual Studio.net users. Not recommended for students, professional developers or anybody else, either. Don't waste your time or your money.
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