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Summary: Leaves no stone unturned
Review: I just love the way Jesse and Dan have written the book. I was shopping around for a good ASP.NET book for over 2 months and finally found the best. Coming from a Java background, it was not at all difficult to follow the C# code. I also bought "Programming C# 2nd Edition" after reading this one. Superb! It is a great combination.
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Summary: No, you don't need Visual Studio.NET
Review: That's categorically false! VS.NET is *not* necessary to work through this book. Jesse doesn't even start to get into Code-Behind until chapter 6, p199. This book admittedly has some code errors, but the author addresses these issues right away at his website... section. This is no doubt the best ASP.NET book on the market and I am thankful I trusted his fine reputation with other works (Like Programming C#). BUY THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Do Get This Book
Review: I wasn't going to review this book since so many others have said how good it is, but then I read a review by someone who said that he could not use the source code for the book and that it was not complete. The authors provide full source code in the book in both C# and VB.NET, and you can download the source from the author's site and cut and paste it into an ASP.NET application with no trouble at all.Further, this book is not only complete and excellent, but the examples are particularly well written because they illustrate the point at hand simply and directly. Perhaps the previous reviewer posted for the wrong book, because Programming ASP.NET is one of the best technical books I've ever read, and is certainly one of the very best books on this topic. I strongly encourage you to buy this book.
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Summary: Don't Bother With This One
Review: While this book does offer some useful information, it falls far short of what developers need to understand to develop in ASP.NET. The code examples (which you can download from the publisher's web site)are simply text snippets of code, impossible to run on their own, and less than useful when taken out of context -- very disappointing.
There are better books out there that offer much more and better, with complete examples that run. I would not recommend this book.
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Summary: GET THIS BOOK !!
Review: Great book to learn ASP.NET programming -- lots of sample code, every on in both C# and VB.NET. I'd say, for somebody who is new to ASP.NET or anybody, like me, who is coming from ASP 3.0, this book is it!
Howerver, if you (like me) are interested in using C# for programming ASP.NET apps (instead of VB.NET) and you are new to C#, I recommend you learn C# first, then move ahead to learing ASP.NET.
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Summary: Comprehensive and well written
Review: This is another well written and fully comprehensive book by O'Reilly. I was very impressed by the excellent coverage and by the quality of the writing. One key feature of this book is that it goes welll beyond the basics, and well beyond the Microsoft documentation to explain not only how you do things, but why you do them. Each concept is put in context and illustrated with working code. The authors support this book well on the web, and full source code is available. In short, I was very impressed by this excellent book.
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Summary: A good starting point for ASP.NET
Review: First of all, I would have given 5 stars if the last chapters were edited better for the examples, but I am glad that the book covers little of everything for us to get a taste of it. Anyways think of it as combination appetizer plate. Once I read and did the samples you just get anxious for more.
I would definetly recommend this book compared to the other books, like Wrox (who tend to put too many chefs in the same kitchen) making the book inconsistent. After this book you can then look for more in depth on the topics you are interested in. Mr. Libery prepared this dish in a well composed manner for us to tryout before ordering the main dish.
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Summary: Great for beginner book
Review: Programming ASP.net does a wonderful job of explaining ASP.net's event driven model and the rest of the core feature sets to ASP.net. It also targets both new developers using VB.Net and also C#. While this a great book for new ASP developers, its definitely not a book for those developers who need the nitty gritty details for the ASP.net classes. The book also doesn't touch enough on extending ASP.NET w/ HTTP Modules and leaves out a lot of things that seasoned developer would find useful such as explanations on the distributed debugging features of Visual Studio.NET IDE, handling file uploads, handling email related task, etc. If you are a new ASP.NET developer, this is the book for you.
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Summary: Outstanding,a new classic!!
Review: The best ASP.NET book there is..simple, step by step, you read and learn, everything is clearly explained. A must!!
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: I enjoyed Liberty's Programming C#, but this book is even better. He and Hurwitz write well (in fact, it is impossible to tell that there are two authos, they write as one). The book offers every example in both VB and C# which was very much appreciated. I was not an ASP programmer, but this book takes you from the fundamentals through the more advanced material. The explanations are clear, the coverage of advanced topics like ADO.NET and custom controls is first class. I highly recommend this book.
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