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Summary: Covers many aspects of ASP.NET
Review: Active Server Pages (ASP) has proven to be a very popular technology for web developers. The main reason for this has been ease of use. Even though ASP can run on other platforms, it is mainly found on the Windows platform. The advent of Microsoft's .NET framework has caused many people to wonder about the future of web development for windows based developers. 'Professional ASP.NET' is aimed at existing ASP developers who are considering the move to .NET. The authors begin the book with various introductions, i.e. ASP.NET, .NET framework and the main languages that it supports. The emphasis then shifts to the bread and butter aspects of ASP.NET, the server controls, data access, debugging and error handling. The book also covers some important issues such as the architecture and how to use and extend the intrinsic server controls. Chapters are also dedicated to Web Services and other devices such as phones and PDAs. Chapter 23 is concerned with the issues involved in migrating your existing ASP applications to ASP.NET. The final chapter is a case study of implementing a simple n-tier e-commerce application with ASP.NET. All in all the standard of ASP books from Wrox have been high in the past and the leagacy of books such as 'Professional ASP 2.0' lives on with the latest offering. If you are a serious ASP developer then this book is essential.
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Summary: not what i expected...
Review: altho i'm a fan of wrox books, i'm a bigger fan of other books. i think this book was rushed, as many samples don't work in beta2, and there are alot of typos, which are proved in the already two-page errata. disappointing
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Summary: Fantastic reference
Review: An essential reference for anyone doing professional ASP.NET development. As with any of these 1000+ page books, this book is not meant for cover-to-cover reading. This book is pretty well written and is a good source to learn more about a particular area of ASP.NET, but the book's core strength is serving as a reference allowing you to solve specific problems as they are encountered.
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Summary: Fantastic reference
Review: An essential reference for anyone doing professional ASP.NET development. As with any of these 1000+ page books, this book is not meant for cover-to-cover reading. This book is pretty well written and is a good source to learn more about a particular area of ASP.NET, but the book's core strength is serving as a reference allowing you to solve specific problems as they are encountered.
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Summary: Definitely not Beta 2 -- Disappionting.
Review: As is, most examples do not work without major tweaking -- even the most simplest of examples. Many samples do not work in Beta 2 as .NET Beta 2 does not even recognize the syntax, let alone compile. Anyone who buys and reads through this book will immediately see this. Even the simple action of building a web method has changed from Beta 1 to Beta 2 and you will get an error when trying to compile. For coders out there, in the standard WROX method, you are fed the samples in the book one line at a time without having the beginning and ending sections (i.e., not the entire code)...making it impossible to type the code manually and being able run it. WROX does offer the samples as download, but once again, the samples do not work. I personally would wait until more ASP.NET books come out on the market. Many are scheduled soon. That way, you can be sure of examples that work. Very disappointed for such an expensive book.
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Summary: Old Edition
Review: Best book on ASP.NET. But don't buy this edition. Instead, get the new updated Professional ASP.NET 1.0, Special Edition, just released Feb. 2002.
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Summary: Wrox books downgraded from Strong Buy to Caution / Sell
Review: DON'T BUY THIS BOOK if this is the first book you are reading on ASP.NET.Even otherwise the book is very poorly organized. From now on i have decided i cannot buy a WROX book just by its reputation. There is a saying - "Once bitten twice shy". I have experienced this twice. Professional ASP XML was also very disjointed, the same thing was repeated by different authors in different chapters and was poorly organized. Wrox is definitely churning out books without any thought to quality. There is an exception. Professional SQL Server 2000 is excellent.
Final advice - Skim through all chapters in a bookstore before buying. Wrox has lost its glory.
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Summary: Definitely NOT a good book to "learn" asp.net
Review: Don't buy this book if you're looking to learn asp.net. It won't do you much good. It's a good reference once you get some of the basics down, but this book is terrible at walking you through even some of the beginning level stuff. There's definitely a reason that this is the professional book. I guess I just figured it would be enough with the several years or asp experience I had. But there's no way you could develop an asp.net application if this was the first and only book you read. Great reference but only later on. Don't believe the section on the back "who is this book for"? It's not for asp 3.0 developers looking to learn asp.net. It's for people who have already read another book and learned asp.net but are trying to find out what some of the more advanced stuff available is.
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Summary: Great book for ASP developers trying to learn ASP.NET
Review: Excellent book again from the Wrox team. A few of the examples do not work and there are typos but this book should rank way above the rest of the books on ASP.NET This book is far more comprehensive than the "Preview of ASP+" that was released a few months ago. I liked the chapter about web services and securing ASP.NET applications.
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Summary: Good Book for ASP3.0 developers
Review: Fantastic book for the existing ASP 3.0 developers. It allows an easy transition to ASP.NET explaning all the concepts of ASP.NET in detail. It is a very comprehensive book. In short a must buy for a ASP 3.0 programmer to ASP.NET
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