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Summary: the best !!!!
Review: this book is great for beginning and intermediate developers.
The explanations are very simple and after you read this book, you'll feel that you have a strong knolowege in asp.net.
Just got the book !!!!
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Summary: Easy and fast
Review: This really is a 'Learn it in 21 Days' book. I read 2 other ASP.NET books before this,( both of which took considerabely longer than 21 days) and had already written a fair bit of ASP.NET code. But this book really put it all into place. Its a good way to get the overall concept of the .NET 'thing?' as it applies in ASP. And its well written. You can read it, then do it, and doing it is what its all about. I already knew classic ASP and was comfortable with oop, but this basic book helped me more than the more detailed (reference) books. I learnt fast and easy, and thats pretty rare. (at least for me)
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Summary: Compehensive book on ASP .NET
Review: If you want to develop applications for the web using .NET this is an excellent book. It is a very comprehensive book on ASP .NET, it is focused primarily on VB .NET, so if you're planning to develop using C# this is not the book you want. It's good for intermediate and beginner programmers. If you're coming from the traditional ASP world, the book includes "That's not ASP" sections in every chapter explainning the differences. The code is very useful and the examples are good for a basic exposure to every topic. It is based on .NET beta 2 and the CD only includes the SDK Framework beta 2.
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Summary: Certainly not the best beginning ASP.Net book
Review: I bought this book because of the reviews it had on Amazon. I learned from this experience that you can't use Amazon reviews as your sole criteria for purchasing a book (that's why you should stop reading now). The author glosses over many of the principles needed to learn the subject. Instead, he briefly discusses code examples (and these explanations many times leave you with more questions than answers) and does not highlight with enough clarity the most fundamental aspects of ASP.net. One of my biggest problems though was the authors total lack of explanation for the end of chapter exercises. If you have any questions (and you will) about how and why the author has coded one of the exercise solutions, you won't find the answer anywhere in this book. Furthermore, many times I found that the exercise problems asked you to perform operations and methods the author didn't discuss in the chapter or any previous chapter for that matter. These problems will really leave you scratching your head. It doesn't deserve one star, but definitely doesn't merit 4.5 (it's current average). I just purchased ASP.Net Unleashed and this is by far a much better book. It would be my recommendation.
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Summary: Perfect book for ASP developers
Review: I read this book from cover to cover, and would definitely recommend it to anyone who already has a background in ASP. I found a few mistakes in the code samples, but what book is without them? I consider debugging them a useful exercise. The chapters are very well laid out and follow succinctly, exactly what I expect from a single authored SAMS book. If you are an experience ASP programmer who wants to develop a good grounding in ASP.NET, this is the book for you.
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Summary: Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days
Review: This is a good book. I like it. It is very easy to follow and gain to knowledge about the ASP.NET but I wish the authors prepare another chapter of using MS Visual Studio.NET (instead of NotePad)to built the Web page.
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Summary: ASP to ASP.NET conversion made easy!
Review: This book is awesome and Chris Payne's writing is simple and concise. While not always refering to "classic" ASP, he points out what the differences are. New techniques are also very well explained, making this thick book a reading pleasure. If you want to learn ASP.NET quickly, this is the book for you. The seven first days are way enough to get you started and code some basic web applictions. Very recommended. 5 stars, hands down.
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Summary: Source code for download
Review: I haven't read this book but intented to find a good book for ASP.NET. Thanks for all the reviewers' comments. I have something to share that I found the source code of this book for download. The URL is http://www.samspublishing.com/display_sams.cfm?item=0672321688&itemhdr=Source%20Code&itemloc=sourcecode
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Summary: Must read for ASP developers...
Review: ...looking to move on to ASP.NET this book is an easy read, and if you are already familiar with ASP this book will show you what you need to know in the first 5 chapters. This book assumes you will be using VB.NET as your language of choice.
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Summary: The "bible" at my workplace
Review: First of all, I'm not done reading this book yet. However, I have read enough of it to give it a very positive review. Just today I was handed an assignment involving XML and XSL. I have some experience with XML, but not with Microsoft's XML tools. I had not yet read the relevent section of the book, but in just a few minutes I was able to glean the key information I needed to plan and execute my assigment. My attempts to learn it on my own under battlefield conditions were very disappointing. This book helped me tremendously. In just the first chapter I had one of those "so *that's* how this happens" moments. I find most "how-to" books to be lacking in either substance or presentation. This book is strong in both areas. One caveat- It's heavily VB oriented. I have a fair amount of VB experience so that's not a problem. If you plan to use C# (as I do), you'll need a good C# book to go along with it.
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