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Summary: Another quality book by Wrox on ASP.NET
Review: I've been working with ASP.NET for over a year and running a site...about ASP.NET framework. This book is something I'm going to keep handy for a reference. It covers a wide range of topics and is full of basic and advanced topics &* source code. This book will provide a refresher every now and then on topics!. This book assumes you know something about about ASP and ASP.NET but has some introductory and history info on ASP.NET. Might be a bit of a jump for a newbie but its worth having!
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Summary: Not Wrox quality
Review: I've relied on a certain level of quality from wrox publications in the past. This book falls far short. New concepts and terms are introduced and not explained until later. Code examples are for individual topics, which is good, but none tying several ideas together that were useful to me. No or incomplete listing of properties and methods. I had to write 2 .NET web page applications in the past week. Over 90% of the time when seeking answers I've had to use the web. I pay exorbitant prices for a book so I don't have to do that. The index is terrible, which is a must for a quick reference. I've felt pretty confident in the past just purchasing a book from wrox without previewing, not anymore. This book of course provides useful information, but suffers from poor writing, scope and sequence, and failure to anticipate and address obvious reader questions and issues.
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Summary: Great Book!!!
Review: if you're one of those programmers that must learn how to use new technologies as soon as they're borned, this is a must get. This is the first full book on ASP.NET and i must say that it's content, organization, and aproche are extraordinary. This book is aimed at those of us that have been playing around with .NET for a little while now. If goes deep into topics explaining every detail. Every ASP.NET programmer must have this. Enjoy it.
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Summary: Very very good
Review: In my mind, Wrox has become the defacto standard for technical topics. I can't imagine going elsewhere, because the authors usually do such a great job covering every angle of a subject.This book also meets that high expectation. I was initially concerned that the material would be incomplete due to the current state of the .NET technology (Beta2), but my fears were unfounded. I feel very comfortable that the material contained herein will be relevant for years to come. As I have scanned the entire book, and read numerous chapters, I am very pleased with the wide coverage given to every relevant topic: Controls, XML, Database integration, Security, Web Services, COM+ integration, Architecture, etc. It's all there, and so better than anything else I've found or seen. I've been anxious to get started with .NET, and now I finally feel like I've got all the knowledge I need to start building real .NET apps. Nicely done!
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Summary: good book, but falls way too short in some areas
Review: Let me first say that if you are a vb/asp/com programmer, .net is a big step up. But if you have a strong oo background (and know some java) its not bad at all. I learned everything I needed to know from this book, and do recommend it, but it is lacking 2 important things... 1. Needs a complete list of the .net class library. They claim that "they didn't have enough room to fit it", which is silly. It is necessary. If you don't use vs.net then it is impossible to remember class library names. Go get an class library reference and print it out. You're gonna need it. 2. Needs a chapter devoted to control event handling. I had to go elsewhere to figure out when many control events (i.e. oninit, onload) are exactly triggered, and how to write procedures (with the right params) to handle each. You use control event handling A LOT with .net, especially if your app has a lot of database integration. They fail to make a point of this. Despite these 2 things, i still gained a lot from this book, but if you don't have a strong oo background...good luck.
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Summary: Some of you these guys bought the wrong book...
Review: Let's be honest! This is an advance book. Not much of hand-holding here. It's fast-pace and expects you to have read up on .NET and fiddled around with the new way of doing things. Otherwise, you will feel disgrunted like those 1 star guys.
Otherwise, this is WROX quality, as you expect it always. If you want a gentler introduction to .NET, reach for Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days. Start with the foundation and then come back to tackle this WROX tome. You will have a different perspective then.
BTW, this is BETA2. I don't get those guys. Why 4 stars? I wished they have included a the SDK in a CD. Downloading 120MB+ is a major pain.
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Summary: Me ha gustado mucho
Review: Me ha parecido estupendo. Explica con unos buenos ejemplos lo que va a ser la nueva plataforma.NET. Muy bueno.
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Summary: A Great Reference
Review: Most of the .NET stuff to come out so far has been either a lot of fluff, or just redistribution of existing MSDN articles (with the exception of Introducing Microsoft .NET). Professional ASP.NET takes off where Programming Active Server Pages+ left off. This book is over 1000 pages of details for everything .NET. No, there isn't a C# section, but if you want to know about the GAC, how the CLR works, security, caching, and even the ASP.NET syntax, this is a great book. You'll find that this servers more than just an introduction. I use it as a reference book now for topics that I didn't get into on the first read.
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Summary: Incorrect Title for book - Should be ASP.NET for VB.NET
Review: Most of the examples are in VB. This is very annoying. The authors admit early in the book that C# is the preferred language for use in .NET. Extremely disappointing to say the least. In spite of this, the book does contain valuable reference material and examples, however it is a struggle to continuously translate VB and is very distracting. Get with the program guys. I would gladly pay double for a C# only book.
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Summary: Old Edition
Review: Most WROX books are prized for their hands-on learning experience. This isn't one of them. The examples are scarce and poorly written, some that don't work if you try them yourself due to lacking background code to their operation. I personally like to step through examples, read a little, try a little, this way I get to see the explanations of features in action and I learn the idiosyncrises of the language on my own without having to be babied (learning a new computer language is just like learning japanese, if you want to learn, go to Japan and just speak as much as possible, you'll learn more in a week in Japan than you would in two months in a classroom, I know... I've done it). This book is a class room, you get a detailed explanation of how object-oriented (JSP like) code works. Which is something any developer worth his salt does not need. It even has a section entitled "ASP.NET is compiled code" ... It's not until chapter 5 that you get to just dig in and actually learn anything. If you do buy this book, just skip the first four chapters, they're worthless and are just a guy trying to explain a lot of information you'll never need when you're actually developing and should be simply added in as comments throughout the book when these points are actually relevant to learning a better practice of coding. A lot of this book is also telling you how to be a developer. We have our own ideas about how to develop and what are the wrong and right ways... but in reality, there are no wrong and right ways, just like we all learn different (input), we all develop differently (output), having someone tell you how to think is not constructive. A very very poor showing by Wrox all around.
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