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Summary: The ASP.net bible -- You just can not afford not to have it.
Review: This is "THE" ASP.net I was looking for. I have some other ASP.net books for helping learning/developing. But this one is the most complete I found among the other ones. I'd recommend this one if you are looking for one book that compiles (comprises) everything. It's hard to keep looking all over the place for a piece of information. This book helps to solve that. 5 STARS! For the authors: Good job! Keep up with the great work!
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Summary: The ASP.net bible -- You just can not afford not to have it.
Review: This is "THE" ASP.net I was looking for. I have some other ASP.net books for helping learning/developing. But this one is the most complete I found among the other ones. I'd recommend this one if you are looking for one book that compiles (comprises) everything. It's hard to keep looking all over the place for a piece of information. This book helps to solve that. 5 STARS! For the authors: Good job! Keep up with the great work!
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Summary: Not for newbie. Great if u have some ideas already!
Review: This is a good book to learn asp .net if you have background of Client/Server side programming from any other language such as PHP. If you are new/beginner I won't recommend this book. I got stuck in many places while implementing the programs discussed in this book and I had to use my previous expertise to solve the problems. You may need to change here and there of the coding to work properly based on your systems configuration. I gave four star instead of 5 as in the beginning I thought I will be able to breeze through the book without any problem. Things work but after spending some time in changing codes. By the way I was using Visual Studio .Net to do the programs discuessed in this book. Good luck!!
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Summary: good starter book for ASP.Net
Review: This is the first book I have read on ASP. NET and I was very impressed. The language was simple and the style was easy and flowing throughout the book. The author does a competent job in explaining the difference between the different type of Web technologies out there and the advantages and disadvantages of each. There is a vast expanse of topics covered from basic to advanced as is suggested in the title of the book:
`Novice to Professional'.
There are plenty of examples in the book and also on the website that demonstrate the topics covered in the book. All topics are covered in a clear and concise manner without going into a lot of unnecessary detail especially for readers new to .NET like myself.
The only downside to this book is that, as it does not go into a lot of detail it would probably not appeal to someone who is already a .NET expert.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is making a transformation from Classic ASP to .NET but as I have mentioned earlier it is not recommended for those trying to get an in-depth knowledge of the subject. I know that it has helped me to understand the core functionalities of .NET
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Summary: Excellent book - excellent author
Review: While reading reviews on another ASP.NET book I saw a recommendation for this book. I'm glad I did as this is an excellent book and Macdonald has become one of my favorite .NET authors. I've since purchased 2 other of his .NET books. He's an excellent author because as well as being highly technical he is also an EXCELLENT TEACHER and writer. He seems to intuitively know what you will have questions about and goes into explanations for them. He uses graphics and other learning aids (a lost art in many books it seems) and he explains things well. To me, he also teaches at the appropriate level. That is, he doesn't drop down and cover basics you should already know but he does cover things that experienced developers should have questions about. Whenever I am needing to learn about a different aspect of .NET now I look to see if Macdonald has published a book (the guy is incredibly prolific!) and I buy his book.
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Summary: Excellent book - excellent author
Review: While reading reviews on another ASP.NET book I saw a recommendation for this book. I'm glad I did as this is an excellent book and Macdonald has become one of my favorite .NET authors. I've since purchased 2 other of his .NET books. He's an excellent author because as well as being highly technical he is also an EXCELLENT TEACHER and writer. He seems to intuitively know what you will have questions about and goes into explanations for them. He uses graphics and other learning aids (a lost art in many books it seems) and he explains things well. To me, he also teaches at the appropriate level. That is, he doesn't drop down and cover basics you should already know but he does cover things that experienced developers should have questions about. Whenever I am needing to learn about a different aspect of .NET now I look to see if Macdonald has published a book (the guy is incredibly prolific!) and I buy his book.
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Summary: One of the most helpful books I've read
Review: You know when you're loking thru the myriad of books trying to decide which one is going to be your 'right hand' and not just a replication of the on-line help? well I think this is the one for me. I'm a VB/SQL Server developer with ASP experience building a commerial web site. So far this book has given me some really good ideas on migrating my existing advanced knowledge and applying it to an ASP.NET application showing me how to in a manner that is very readable and intuitive. The examples are easy to follow and more importantly they work! Really good book - 10 out of 10
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