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Summary: Stale subject - beating a dead horse
Review: A new ASP.NET 1.0 book? Why? ASP.NET 2.0 books are available right now, which is where the authors should have put their time and efforts. If you do need an ASP.NET 1.0 book there are literally hundreds of titles available, many in second edition. This book adds nothing new to a very crowded subject. I should have purchased an ASP.NET 2.0 book.
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Summary: good coverage and code listings
Review: Another in O'Reilly's ongoing series of cookbooks and hacks. Here, we are looking at ASP.NET. Probably still relatively new to a lot of you, which may explain why you are considering this book. Undoubtedly, you've heard of, and maybe tried using, the official texts put out by Microsoft Press. By definition, those are authoritative. But the sheer verbosity, while probably necessary in order to teach you the subject, can be offputting.
Suppose, though, you know the rudiments. Maybe via those books. You are now working on a problem and face well defined smaller problems within it. The remit of this book. It does not try to teach you ASP.NET as a pedagogic whole. Rather, each chapter is offered largely independent of its predecessors. And within a chapter, the various hacks are logically related but can often be understood by themselves.
Care has gone into the descriptions of hacks in the Contents pages. So, for example, we have "Creating a Web Service" and "Caching Pages". Concise but detailed enough to direct you to the material.
The bulk of the book is also in its favour. Due in large part to extensive code listings that often accompany the hacks. Remember, you can easily get to and read only what you need. The code may turn out to be a huge timesaver.
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Summary: This book rocks. Great value.
Review: Had the book only a day before it paid for itself. The code examples are excellent, and the authors are well aware of best practices. This is not a bunch of hack recipes, but recipes to build durable, production code.
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Summary: A very good book.
Review: I haven't read all of the recepies. However, at the moment I am very happy with this book.
The chapter on input validation is really well done. It is easy to start with what the book offers and extend it to something else.
The chapters on error handling and tracing are also very good.
This book has clear examples and good code. I am happy with it.
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Summary: Counter balance for the reader from Broomfield
Review: I haven't read this book but then neither has the reader from Broomfield who bashed it and gave it only one star. The book hasn't even been published yet and isn't due out for another two months (August 2004 according to the O'Reilly site)! Let's hold judgement until there's actually a book to read.
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