Programming Microsoft .NET

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Summary: Great books save you precious time
Review: And this is one of them. There are classic books in every area. This book is the one for .NET. If you are an experienced developer and want to jump start with .NET, this is definitely the book for you. I love it! Thank you Jeff Prosise for your great work.

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Summary: Senior Web Developer
Review: Excellent Book. Materials are clear and concise. This will now be my ASP.Net bible. Definitely worth the wait.

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Summary: Really good for a beginner
Review: I am very much satisfied with this book. I would agree with the first reviewer that this book is more concentrated toward ASP.NET rather than the whole .NET
I din't have much knowledge about Web Applications or even HTML before reading this book , so this book really clarified things for me. It explains from beginner's point of view.
The chapter on Window Forms isn't that good and one thing i didn't like in this book was that it din't use Code-Behind programming Model for the ASP.NET samples its used.
If u are beginning to learn Web application development without any prior knowledge of ASP or Web programming , this book is for you.

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Summary: Great for getting up to speed on ASP.NET
Review: I bought this book because I saw that much of its content is devoted to ASP.NET, and I needed to go from WEB newbie(I had never written any WEB-based software) to WEB developer. I have Prosise's MFC book, and I'm very ambivalent toward it. However, I am very impressed with Prosise's writing in this text. He has explained things very clearly with regard to ASP.NET. Prosise not only shows you how, but also explains why in this book. The content he covered was perfect for me. I've used nearly everything he teaches. This book is my ASP.NET reference. The first four chapters are supposed to get us up to speed on the .NET framework. I think the book does a poor job of this. However, that doesn't seem to be Prosise's intent. I would recommend a different book if you are new to C# and .NET. This book concentrates more on web development.

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Summary: Great for getting up to speed on ASP.NET
Review: I bought this book because I saw that much of its content is devoted to ASP.NET, and I needed to go from WEB newbie(I had never written any WEB-based software) to WEB developer. I have Prosise's MFC book, and I'm very ambivalent toward it. However, I am very impressed with Prosise's writing in this text. He has explained things very clearly with regard to ASP.NET. Prosise not only shows you how, but also explains why in this book. The content he covered was perfect for me. I've used nearly everything he teaches. This book is my ASP.NET reference. The first four chapters are supposed to get us up to speed on the .NET framework. I think the book does a poor job of this. However, that doesn't seem to be Prosise's intent. I would recommend a different book if you are new to C# and .NET. This book concentrates more on web development.

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Summary: A really good read
Review: I had just bought this book after reading Jeffrey Richter's Applied .NET Programming and Petzold's C# books. I really liked the way the book read, it was very clear and I don't remember ever feeling like I didn't 'get' what I had just read. His discussion on ASP.NET was one of the better parts of the book. It was more heavily weighted to ASP.NET's background info ie what's really happening behind the scenes, but ASP.NET is so different from old school ASP, that I think it was a great discussion. Every book I've got from the Wintellect crowd has pleased me, and this one is no exception.

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Summary: A really good read
Review: I had just bought this book after reading Jeffrey Richter's Applied .NET Programming and Petzold's C# books. I really liked the way the book read, it was very clear and I don't remember ever feeling like I didn't 'get' what I had just read. His discussion on ASP.NET was one of the better parts of the book. It was more heavily weighted to ASP.NET's background info ie what's really happening behind the scenes, but ASP.NET is so different from old school ASP, that I think it was a great discussion. Every book I've got from the Wintellect crowd has pleased me, and this one is no exception.

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Summary: DISAPPOINTED
Review: I WAITED QUITE SOME TIME FOR THIS PUBLICATION, AND I MUST SAY I'M DISAPPOINTED. IMHO, THIS IS NO WHERE NEAR THE QUALITY OF PROSISES'S PREVIOUS MFC PROGRAMMING, ETC. I ALSO HAVE TROELSEN'S C# AND THE .NET PLATFORM AND AGAIN IMHO, TROELSEN'S HAS MUCH MORE BREADTH AND DEPTH. I AM SURE THAT PROSISE IS VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE, BUT SOMEHOW THE KNOWLEDGE WAS NOT TRANSFERRED TO THIS BOOK.

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Summary: Not as good as I expected
Review: I was somewhat disappointed with this book. I felt it could have been a bit more in-depth and maybe more focused by removing the section on windows forms and concentrating purely on ASP.Net (and renaming it ASP.Net). One feature that really annoys me and is commonplace in ASP.Net books is how the author states the obvious that codebehind is a great feature and should be utilised, and nesting code in aspx pages avoided if at all possible. Then all the examples are showen as aspx pages containing nested code blocks. Arrgghh!
On the good side Jeff Prosise has a good clear writing style, his description of 'background info' is good, and the book is really well presented in choice of fonts, layout etc. Also it's good that the examples are in C# only.

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Summary: Ideal First .NET Book
Review: I wish I could have read this book earlier. The knowledge extracted from it, would have save me a lot of time (of reading the documentation of .NET or try to start working from scratch). If you are planning to start learning .NET from a theoretical perspective, but also be immediately ready for writing applications, this book is very good for it (fundamentally if you are a web developer). No one could expect that a book of such huge technology as .NET is, could give us all the necessary details that we need to know. In this case, Prosise give us (through a very simple way of telling) the important aerial view that at least I need to understand a technology, without loosing important details. I think that this book give you the kick to start in an excellent way. If you want go deep, now you have all the weapons to know what you want to learn. If you already have read some .NET books and have acquired a good knowledge of the whole framework, this book would not tell you much, but for the starter is perfect.