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Summary: More Than What the Title Indicates
Review: I have been programming since 1971 and I wish we would ahve had books like this when I was starting out. I have been soing classic ASP for some time and was told to become 'the' knowledgeable person on .Net and VS.Net as soon as possible. I pullec this book off the shelf where is had been since I acquired it about a year ago but hand no time or need to open it until recently. This book is worth it for the Appendices alone. One is a tabular refeference of ASP.NET Server Controls which includes Intrinsic Server Conrtols, Rich Server Controls, and Style Objects. The other covers ADO.net including the ADO.NET DOM and ASP.NET Managed Providers.
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Summary: New to .NET
Review: I held off having anything to do with .NET until the release of the final version one month ago. This book has been a fantastic introduction to many different aspects of ASP.NET programming. If you've had a fair amount of experience using ASP and ADO previously, this book will get you up to speed with ASP.NET in next to no time.
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Summary: 5 Stars for Simplicity
Review: I liked this book for its simplicity. This book covers the ASP.NET controls from the data-driven applications perspective only and did the best job that can be done at it. Simple, precise and examples driven and gives you the understanding about the ASP.NET controls that you need. A great book for a beginners and good reference for an intermediate ASP.NET programmers.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I traditionally avoided Sams books as I've found them to be a lot of paper for minimal meat. This book does not fit in that category. It is full of examples with all the code and progresses in a methodical manner. The book is easy to read but has detail to solve real world problems. Compliments to the authors.
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Summary: Great intro to new .Net technology!
Review: I use this book as a reference when the on-line docs in Visual Studio do not have good examples. I have especially found the "Inputting and Editing Data Using the Datagrid and DataList" chapters and the "Data Caching" chapters helpful. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Great Introduction to ASP.NET
Review: I wanted to learn what's new in ASP.NET from ASP. I have been working with ASP for 6 months and found it very easy to read and very few errors in the text. Those that I found were not critical to the learning process. I'll give it 5 stars.
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Summary: Too many water
Review: I was looking for a book for advanced developers.
Unfortunately this one is just for the beginners.
There are lot of code examples, but most of them just a slight modification of the code from a previous chapters.
Also author spend time describing how to use ASP.Net components, not how to solve real problems.
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Summary: A Fantastic Overview of ASP/ADO.Net
Review: I've been a Web developer for 4 years and coding ASP pages for about 3 and this one of the best development books I've ever purchased. I'm trying to upgrade my skills to cover ASP.Net and have recently purchased Wrox's "Beginning ASP.Net using VB.Net", "Sams Teaching Yourself ASP.Net in 21 Days" and "ASP.Net for Dummies" and this book is better than all these. This is especially true if you already have an ASP background as the pace of the book is not too slow and does not assume you know nothing about Web development as some of the other new ASP.Net books do. It's full of code samples in VB and C# and explains how every example works in detail. I especially like how the authors do not get lazy by showing the reader only sections of code. Rather, they provide the code examples in the context of the entire application and show how it all fits together. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: This is a Must-Have book for ASP.Net Programmers
Review: It doesn't matter how many web sites you've visited with sample code - this book is a 'must-have' in your ASP.Net learning arsenal. I thought I pretty well knew most of what I needed about data-driven web apps with ASP.Net - but this book showed me wrong. Before the end of the 2nd chapter - I was adding to my ASP.Net/Data knowledge. This book explains things thoroughly and 'in English'. Though, highly technical, at some points, I had no problems understanding the concepts in the book.
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Summary: Great chapter on authentication
Review: Mack and Seven's book has the most direct chapter on Authentication methods in .NET I've seen yet. I knew that simple security could be implemented inside the web.config but didn't know how, this book showed the way. It also has good examples on authenticating from a user list stored in an XML file or db table. It also does a good job of explaining caching features of .NET, something most beginner books gloss over. Surprising since proper use of caching can cut site hosting costs by an order of magnitude. There is a chapter on uploading and displaying BLOB's, something I get asked about all the time. Even though I think it's the wrong way to go (always preferred to store links to images inside tables rather than the images themselves) there you have it. The chapters covering XML, SOAP and Web Services are covered better elsewhere, but since this is directed at beginners the exposure doesn't do any harm. Overall, this book is ideal for those who either have or want to build data-driven sites and want to take advantage of .NET fast. It's a solid how-to that a raw beginner could probably follow. It sticks close to features of the .NET Framework and their practical application -- Forms to gather data and Datagrids to display data. Sometimes simplistic, "deep" programmers will want to turn elsewhere for most of this, but it gets the job done.
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