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Summary: Good architecture, Good Website
Review: This book has a lot of good implementations for an asp.net
programmer. What I have found in a lot of beginner books
is that its only really enough information to suposedly get you up and running before going through a book like this
asp.net website book.
This books has a very good ood design and the asp.net design
and also the page composition is very impressive.
I would have liked to have seen transaction implementation at the non-database component/module level which very few books
cover.
Caching is also covered in this implementation
The technology that this book cover easily more than pays for the book
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Summary: A practical book for ASP.NET developers
Review: This book is not for ASP.NET beginners. It is intended for developers that have a good understanding of ASP.NET, C# and ADO.NET.
ASP.NET Website Programming is an accurate documentation of a professional Web site design and implementation: THEPHILE.COM, a Web site for DVD and books enthusiasts. The site's features implementation are described following a pattern highlighted by the subtitle of the book: Problem, Design, Solution. In other words, the authors analyze the Problem to face, give a Design of the Solution and implement it. This pattern is applied to each chapter.
Many common Web site festures are taken into account: from navigation management to user authentication, from news publishing to advertising, from polls and mailing list implementation to forum and online communities management.
This book gives a practical vision of using ASP.NET features and a good methodology to software design and implementation.
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Summary: This book has got me writing a lot of code
Review: This is definitely one of my favorite books. I've only gotten half way through it, because I'm busy converting all of my websites to use the code examples in the book. I would not recommend this book for beginners, but it is excellent for intermediate programmers. I read Visual C# first, and skipped around through several ASP.NET books. I really can't say enough good things about this book. If you want to learn how to build solid ASP.NET websites using C#, this book will give you a good foundation.
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Summary: Best Practices for experienced programmers
Review: This is not a book for beginners. It's not a book to teach you programming. You must already have a solid knowledge of all VB, OOP, ASP, SQL and anything involved in programming for the web with the .NET framework.But it's an *outstanding* best practices cookbook that shows how to gather your knowledge and skills together to professionaly implement a web application. ( although I've noticed some disagree on certain details) I m a beginner(trying to become intermediate) programmer and I did a lot of reading before reopening this book but I haven't found any other book coming even close to this one, that can get you off "hello world" programming to professional, real-world problem-solving. I don't give it 5 stars because the VB edition has some flaws caused by the hurried translation (ie. the images don't match the text and several other discrepancies) and because it could be more frienldy to new programmers if it didn't leave so many things implied.
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Summary: Don't understand the five stars!!!
Review: Well, this is a very good application creation. If you download the code and simply use it. You will have just some minor adjustments to make in web.config file and IIS manager. But, if you want to do it yourself, read every chapter and write down the code. Fiouuuuuuuu!!! Good luck. I tried it and with many help from the wrox forum I just finished it.
So many errors in this book. It's why I canno't give this book 4 or 5 stars. The stuff in it is very professional and working with it is very pleasant but when I buy a book it's for reading and trying it, not for downloading code and running this one. So keep in mind if you buy this pro book, very good programming concept but poor writing.
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Summary: It's a great book.
Review: Well. I am beginner in .Net and keen to find a way to develop N-Tier application. This is a good book to start. Some of the them complaint it is unorganized and the sample code cannot run at all. I have tried it and found no problem. Probably they have to read the readme.html file. Anyway, If you want to learn C#. This book definitely not for you. But if you want to learn how people apply N-tier in their website, this is book is for you.
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Summary: Must Have Book!
Review: When I started using ASP.net I really wanted to design my web site the right way. Using the guidelines offered in this book I feel like I have written the most solid code of my 12 year career. Read some intro books first to get the basics and then buy this book. BTW my web site in nothing like the demo one they use in thier book. The principals outlined apply to all ASP.net projects
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Summary: Must have book for professional ASP.NET developers
Review: When it comes to technical books, I usually spend a lot of time browsing through books (in the book stores) and reading reviews (in the internet) before commiting myself to a title. After all, technical books are not cheap and there is nothing more frustrating than one that has been badly written. The C# version of the book had great reviews and, most importantly, was pitched at a level that went beyond the beginners level. Although many books do not dare to miss the beginners bit, I was happy to see that this book had ommitted it as, once you have mastered the basic stuff, wasting a good part of the book with it can be a bit annoying. In spite of being a VB.NET programmer, the C# version of the book offered me the chance to see how professional developers designed a complete web site using a very clever three-tier, modular architecture. Moreover, the variety of techniques used in the different modules of the book allowed me to see first-hand the different tools that can be used to perform similar tasks (e.g. the use of XSL to create pages content from XML documents). In spite of being months old, the book still hasn't visited the shelf as a lot of the solutions I have developed are based on the examples shown in it. The VB.NET version of the book (which I bought I soon as soon as I could), is not only as good as the original (a lot of the content has been copied verbatim), but obviously much more useful if you develop in VB.NET. The book has allowed me to learn a lot of VB.NET syntax I was not aware of and, most importantly, has thrown some light into some aspects that were not clear in the C# version of the book (partly due to my inexperience in that language). The code has been beautifully laid out (one of the shortcomeings of the C# version) and simple things like the naming conventions are much more obvious and consistent in the VB.NET edition of the book. Furthermore, you even get extra content that was not present in the C# version of the book (e.g. how to log errors in a simple file instead of the system log). Although I would recommend either version of the book, the VB.NET edition is, in a way, an iteration of the C# edition and, as such, has a lot of the refinements and corrections you would expect from a second edition. Overall, I feel this is a must have book for people who earn a living out of this.
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