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Summary: Books looks great ....
Review: ...but becomes a big disapointment until you try to run the samples.
I think the book is based on beta 2. No problem about that but why don't they put an update on a website.
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Summary: Poor Editing (sample code)
Review: After reading only part of this book, I have found numerous typos. Most of these are just in the text though, not sample code. A bigger issue is that the sample code from the book does not match the sample code provided on the CD (even some of the chapter numbers have been switched). In some cases the code in the book and on the CD is incorrect! After spending some time at MSDN, I was able to find and fix the problems. Not what I expected when I bought this book.
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Summary: Very Helpful
Review: As somemone who has been programming in VB for years, but who is new to .NET, and as someone who doesn't do well with just reading manuals, I found this book very helpful and well written. It walks you through 10 examples that can be built on to create "real-world" web applications and explains the thought process behind the code very well.
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Summary: What Language
Review: Can some one comment as if the samples are in VB.NET or C#?
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Summary: The Best "how-to" book on ASP.Net
Review: Finally a well-written book with good examples on ASP.Net. Eric Smith's applications are very good and they are challenging from the beginning. (The first chapter is no Hello-World, but rather an address book). Well edited and error-free. A great way to expose yourself to the normative techniques in ASP.Net design.
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Summary: Good in spite of the errors
Review: I considered many books before choosing this one because it had an approach which fit the way that I learn.
I'll be reviewing some of the projects many times to understand the method behind the design of the projects.
Unfortunately, some of the projects were simply unfinished, or had problems that would prevent them from working correctly.
It's still worth it -- there's a lot here.
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Summary: Great book to learn ASP.NET and VB.NET
Review: I've just worked my way through 2/3rds of the book and I must say that I am both impressed and overwhelmed. Impressed by the fact that the author has such a deep grasp of the .NET classes/framework and overwhelmed by how much I am learning. I am planning to go through the book again, from cover to cover after I finish this itteration, just to try to pick up some of the tidbits that I might have missed. I have gone through "cover-to-cover" 5 books on VB.NET and 3 on ASP.NET, and this one ranks at the top of my list for ASP.NET and should be considered for the more advance VB.NET people as well. I can honestly say that you don't need to be an expert at VB.NET to get some great things from this book, but if you look closely at the VB.NET code, you will pick up a ton of useful (real-world) information.
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Summary: update the website!
Review: might be 4 stars if the proper code updates were placed on the website.
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Summary: The Best "how-to" Book available on VB.Net
Review: Sufficiently challenging and well-written. The content shows that the author put serious thought behind the design of his applications. The book is well-edited, and as a result, the topics flow easily. If you are serious about .Net and need to quickly learn the normative techniques for ASP application design, I strongly recommend ASP.Net at Work by Eric Smith.
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Summary: Real Projects & Solid Code
Review: The projects are hosted on the internet at www.10ProjectsWithASP.net and they work well.
But you better make sure the book you buy has a CD in it because you cannot download the code online. That is extremely bogus in my case because I bought a used book at amazon marketplace and the seller said it was with a CD and that was a lie. smoky mtn books if you are curious who it was.
Otherwise the projects are really useful, real world projects.
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