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Summary: Excellent book, excellent writer
Review: A great book that's invaluable for putting together XML,XSL, and ASP.NET. Mr. Wahlin is THE MAN to go to on many ASP.NET/XML lists, and for XML/XSL in general. He is also very readable, a unique and refreshing talent.
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Summary: Excellent Resource
Review: A very detailed resource that doesn't get bogged down. Numerous coding examples provide great support to the narrative. Some authors try to impress the reader with their capability while, at the same time, losing the audience. Wahlin obviously knows the subject matter and competently presents the material to an audience that is still learning.
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Summary: MCSD.NET,MCSE,MCDBA,MCSA and MCT
Review: Actually I liked the way that the author wrote that book. As a developer you must master XML and without it you can't do anything. This is your book
Michael Youssef
Microsoft.NET Architect/Trainer
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Summary: Even XML dummies can use this book!
Review: And I'm living proof. While not an XML guru by any stretch of the imagination, I am an experienced Web developer. This book helped me get a grasp on a technology I know very little about, in conjunction with a technology I feel quite comfortable with (ASP.NET).The in's and out's of XML are covered in the first 4 chapters, providing some helpful XML reference material. I found the chapters on Datasets and using XSLT with ASP.NET most helpful. Explanations on quick ways to accomplish actions (for instance writing out a dataset to an xml file) are coupled with Dan's take on the BEST way to do these tasks. Also, the book chapters are logically put together to allow you to pick and choose chapters when you need them as a reference. A good technical read as well. Right now this is my first reference for using XML with ASP.NET.
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Summary: Even XML dummies can use this book!
Review: And I'm living proof. While not an XML guru by any stretch of the imagination, I am an experienced Web developer. This book helped me get a grasp on a technology I know very little about, in conjunction with a technology I feel quite comfortable with (ASP.NET). The in's and out's of XML are covered in the first 4 chapters, providing some helpful XML reference material. I found the chapters on Datasets and using XSLT with ASP.NET most helpful. Explanations on quick ways to accomplish actions (for instance writing out a dataset to an xml file) are coupled with Dan's take on the BEST way to do these tasks. Also, the book chapters are logically put together to allow you to pick and choose chapters when you need them as a reference. A good technical read as well. Right now this is my first reference for using XML with ASP.NET.
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Summary: A very timely book
Review: Bought this book last week. Can't tell you how much its going to help me and my team as its a one stop reference to everything one could do with the classes in the System.Xml namespace.
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Summary: This book is terrible
Review: Boy. The reviews in here are usually pretty good but something is up with this one. I almost have to wonder if these reviews in here weren't setup by the people behind the book. This book has almost NO useful content. The first 4 chapters are on the basics of xml. I don't need somebody to tell me that I xml is case sensitive or that I can't next elements. If you don't know that yet, you need a beginning xml book. I wanted
to learn how to use asp.net and xml and this book just
doesn't cut it. There's about 2 chapters in the whole book
that you'll get some use out of and that it! I don't see how Sams could have put their name on this
book to be honest. It's almost night and day from
the other two books of theirs I have on .NET -
"programming data driven web apps with asp.net" AND
"asp.net tips, tutorials and code". If you buy any .net books at all, the tips,tutorials and
code book is an absolute must to buy. I like to add
little snippets a code as I learn new coding tricks
and the tips book is full of more nice, small snippets
and quick hints that you'll find in any
other book out there. The tips book is the
perfect book!
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Summary: Should have just a little VB in there
Review: Dan Wahlin is one of the top experts on XML, and this book is absolutely fantastic. Almost every question that I have ever had about working with XML and .NET has been answered... except that I don't use C#. So, I always need a translator. If you use C#, this is the perfect book. If you don't, learn to translate from it, cuz this is the best book around.
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Summary: Smashing Intro to both XML/XSLT and NET
Review: I bought the book a month ago and stayed idle in my library until I started using SQL2000 Web Notifications and needed some extra help on the principles. And that was it. I can only tell you that it kept me reading it for three consequtive days, enough time to keep myself going, understand may parts, realise many possibilities/options and even optimise some code. This is not a book to solve a particular problem but it is a book to get you all excited about XML/XSLT/XLink/XPath and realise how this have been integrated to many of Microsoft Applications... (Notifications is one, CS2002 another). I regret that I havent had that book before hand. It would have saved me many more hours of searching. The only minus is that it makes you so excited that you end up spending another couple $$$ on other books to get into more details so I just shopped...
1 of: XPath and XPointer
1 of: Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming
1 of: XSLT and XPath On The Edge, Unlimited Edition
1 of: XSLT Programmer's Reference 2nd Edition couple this with Professinal C# (2nd Edition) or even Beginning C# and you can do most things imaginable with c# and XML. Thank you Dan.
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Summary: Where to download the example file in this book?
Review: I just bought this book. But I don't know where to download the example code? Please help me.
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