Rating: 
Summary: Disappointed with the title of this book...
Review: :-) This book actually took me nearly forty (40) whole days to read! O.K. Poor humour aside, I'd recommend this book for several reasons...Firstly - and this is the most important one - when you invest the time to read ~600 pages of book you need to be sure that the time is being well spent. I purchased this book to get a heads-up on the constructs of the C# language having come from a VB background. I wasn't disappointed -
THIS BOOK WILL TEACH YOU C#! I learnt quite a lot of stuff about *languages* that I simply did not think that I had the time to learn just by reading this book. For example, the author takes the time to teach you about polymorphism and inheritance and also the simple things such as reuse and how to lay out your code modules. The author - Bradley L. Jones - obviously has a very strong command of languages and that comes through by reading this book. He shows you those little language *tricks* that you only get from someone who knows, and obviously enjoys, programming. IN SHORT
-------- This book is obviously aimed at someone either new to programming or somebody looking for an introduction to the C# language and I would heartily recommend it for that purpose. If you're serious about .NET, and you enjoy programming, take the time to read this book - I couldn't do it in 21 days, but, I'm glad I did it :-)
Rating:
Summary: Disappointed with the title of this book...
Review: :-) This book actually took me nearly forty (40) whole days to read! O.K. Poor humour aside, I'd recommend this book for several reasons... Firstly - and this is the most important one - when you invest the time to read ~600 pages of book you need to be sure that the time is being well spent. I purchased this book to get a heads-up on the constructs of the C# language having come from a VB background. I wasn't disappointed -
THIS BOOK WILL TEACH YOU C#! I learnt quite a lot of stuff about *languages* that I simply did not think that I had the time to learn just by reading this book. For example, the author takes the time to teach you about polymorphism and inheritance and also the simple things such as reuse and how to lay out your code modules. The author - Bradley L. Jones - obviously has a very strong command of languages and that comes through by reading this book. He shows you those little language *tricks* that you only get from someone who knows, and obviously enjoys, programming. IN SHORT
-------- This book is obviously aimed at someone either new to programming or somebody looking for an introduction to the C# language and I would heartily recommend it for that purpose. If you're serious about .NET, and you enjoy programming, take the time to read this book - I couldn't do it in 21 days, but, I'm glad I did it :-)
Rating: 
Summary: Heavy on ASP, light on Visual Studio
Review: Before there was ASP.NET, there was ASP. This book is clearly a "Teach Yourself ASP" book that has had the ".NET" moniker added to the title. All the code examples show embedded code withing ASP pages rather than the newer (and clearly superior) "code behind" model of Microsoft's Visual Studio product. I am most disappointed that there are no explanations of how to use the Visual Studio environment to build the web pages. The authors seem to be of the "I've got notepad to enter my code and that's all I need" school of programming. To be honest, the title did not say anything about Visual Studio, so I guess the joke's on me.
Rating:
Summary: Heavy on ASP, light on Visual Studio
Review: Before there was ASP.NET, there was ASP. This book is clearly a "Teach Yourself ASP" book that has had the ".NET" moniker added to the title. All the code examples show embedded code withing ASP pages rather than the newer (and clearly superior) "code behind" model of Microsoft's Visual Studio product. I am most disappointed that there are no explanations of how to use the Visual Studio environment to build the web pages. The authors seem to be of the "I've got notepad to enter my code and that's all I need" school of programming. To be honest, the title did not say anything about Visual Studio, so I guess the joke's on me.
Rating: 
Summary: Practical Examples Work - Concepts Build Gradually
Review: I'm half-way thru (p250) so far, and very impressed.
I have experience with traditional Active Server Pages, but I wanted to learn how to build websites using the Microsoft.NET technologies.
This book lays down concepts in a sensible order, one on top of another, the way I like it. The example programs actually work fine with .NET Release Candidate. The book contains just the right mix of info on ASP Web Forms, ADO.NET, XML, and related issues to give me that overall comfort level I needed to be productive.
With this as a starting point, I feel much more comfortable learning the advanced details of these various technologies.
Also worth noting: the author Aitken was kind enough to respond promptly when I asked for a link to the source code. I wish the Sams people would get around to updating the website with that information. Maybe they are overwhelmed with site updates or something.
I highly recommend this as a hands-on, self-study book for programmers building web apps using C#. If you prefer VB.Net, there are other books out there.
Rating: 
Summary: Authors of this book do not care about the readers
Review: In the book, authors promised that source code and update will be available from Sams Publishing Website and listed the URL. But there is no download link in the page of this book. Repeated E-mails met only deef ears. If the authors don't care about the accuracy of this simple information, Do you think they will care about the technical accuracy of the content?
Rating:
Summary: Code Download is Available
Review: Just to let you know that Electronic (not electric) source code is available for this book.
Look at:
http://www.samspublishing.com/title/0672322358#
Which gives the link to:
http://www.pgacon.com/csip21/
Enjoy!
Rating:
Summary: Book is more about old ASP than ASP.net
Review: The authors has not spend enough time to write the book in a manner so that the readers can get the feel of the subject. It absolutly not going for new "code behind" technology. If you want to study ASP it is a so so book but if you are planning to take advantage of ASP.net and C# look else where. Authors could have made project examples in visual studio.net and gave us instead of single file format. In short it doesn't teach you C# or .Net or ASP.net.
Rating:
Summary: Book is more about old ASP than ASP.net
Review: The authors has not spend enough time to write the book in a manner so that the readers can get the feel of the subject. It absolutly not going for new "code behind" technology. If you want to study ASP it is a so so book but if you are planning to take advantage of ASP.net and C# look else where. Authors could have made project examples in visual studio.net and gave us instead of single file format. In short it doesn't teach you C# or .Net or ASP.net.
Rating:
Summary: A book for .NET without electric code is funny
Review: The book's writing skills and organization is good. But unfortunately, I cannot get any electric source code from anywhere. The book was definitely written before the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET release. Without electric source code, you have to type in all of the code to find out if the code works or not. At first, I consider to use the book as text book in my class, but I have to choose another one which have electric code source even I like this book better. I hope the author can provide electric code in the future; I 'd like to use it for my next class if I can get the updating electric code for this book.
| 
