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Summary: Great book for beginners!
Review: "Build Your Own ASP.NET Website" is a fantastic introduction to ASP.NET. I've read a good number of ASP.NET books over the years, and this is up there with the best. The writing is concise, easy to understand and the examples, especially the PayPal integration, are constructive and informative. One of the few books I've came across that have all the examples in VB.NET and C#, making it easy for someone to chose what language they would like to stick with, instead of what the author prefers
The appendix's will keep this book on my desk. With the most common HTML and Server controls listed, it saves time from trawling through the MSDN documentation that comes with the .NET SDK.
I would strongly recommend this book to any one wanting to learn ASP.NET
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Summary: A great starting point for ASP developers moving UP!
Review: As an experienced developer with dozens of web sites developed in traditional ASP, I was delighted finally find a decent 'getting started' book for ASP.NET, VB.NET and C# that I could use myself, and share with my Microsoft-oriented students.Anyone making the leap from ASP to .NET knows how difficult it is to find a resource that covers enough introductory information to get started, while still presenting more advanced and useful topics -- but this is the one! Although this book won't make you an ASP.NET guru overnight (NO book can!) -- it will certainly get you far enough up the learning curve to start producing some useful and functional code which may be reused and enhanced later as you skills and competence grow. This new release -- as for all other SitePoint books I've read -- has proven a pleasure to read, and a joy to use in the real world. Great work!
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Summary: Absolute Beginners Only :)
Review: If you are professional ASP veteran you might not find this book 100% page-to-page useful, but still fun to read, explore and besides everything this book is a really good start from the bottom guide
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Summary: Clear, novel, and relevant
Review: It's a really superb book. All the examples are clear, novel and relevant. Most importantly, they aren't the same tired examples you see in every other technical book. The explanation of what .NET is, and how ASP.NET is structured is one of the finest examples I've ever read (and I've read quite a few over the years!) If you need a practical guide to ASP.NET to help you build usable, powerful web sites, then this is the book to get.
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Summary: A Common Sense Approach to ASP.NET
Review: Learning ASP.NET has not been easy for me mainly because all of the books I bought never seemed to get to the step by step process of real-life web app programming. I don't want to read about stuff I'll never use. I need to get stuff done now! I'm only about 2/3 through this book but it already has given me insights into some of the details never mentioned in all the other books on my shelves. Brief but concise explanations of IIS and SQL Server Desktop Engine installation and configuration were very much appreciated. The chapter on database design is excellent. Finally a book that doesn't assume I'm already a relational database expert! I feel like I'm starting to get a much better understanding of OOP as well. I've skimmed through the shopping cart section and so far it seems pretty logical and straightforward. Another big plus - this book is pretty lighthearted and funny. I highly recommend!
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Summary: Great Introductory Book for Designers and Scripters
Review: This book clearly targets the individual who has had little or no software development experience, working from the ground up, covering the basics necessary to build a dynamic web site using ASP.NET technologies. Some of the topics are not grouped correctly, e.g., control and page events are in the C# & VB.NET programming basics chapter when they are more appropriate in the ASP.NET basics chapter. And I think, at best, there is only a cursory coverage of programming (object-oriented programming in particular), but it is likely sufficient for the purpose at hand. All in all, I think that the target audience (designers and scripters) is well-chosen, and those in that category should be able to build low-end dynamic web applications that suffice for many situations. I would recommend it to that audience because it does provide more than sufficient information on the mechanics of ASP.NET application development; however, I would not recommend it for professional developers or those wanting to become such because the coverage of professional development concepts is too simplistic and best practices are not addressed.
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Summary: Excellent ASP.NET Development Book
Review: This is the first Sitepoint book I have read and the second on ASP.NET.
The book requires that you have either Windows 2000, XP or 2003 installed and requires .NET Framework Redistributable (1.1 is the version the book is written for but most examples should work in v1.0), .NET Framework SDK, IIS (Or Cassini) Web Server, a modern web browser (e.g. IE v5.5+) and an editor. (Anything from notepad to Visual Studio will be sufficient). Access (JET), MSDE and SQL Server are the databases used in the examples. Instructions are included in the book on how to install and configure IIS and how to install MSDE and Access and how to attach the example database.
No previous knowledge of ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, IIS nor databases is required. However you will need to be familiar with HTML before reading the book.
The format of each chapter is a brief, single paragraph introduction, then straight into the subject matter with a brief summary at the end. Throughout the chapters there is a liberal sprinkling of figures and tables and extensive code examples, nearly all of which are in both C# and VB.NET. During the course of the book a complete intranet application is developed which includes a helpdesk, employee store, newsletter archive, employee directory, address book and admin tools.
Pros
Extensive code samples
A complete intranet application is developed within the book.
Superb range of subject matter.
Liberal use of figures and tables.
Excellent layout.
A good tool for learning both C# & VB.NET.
Cons
Topics covered in each chapter are not listed at the beginning of each chapter.
If you are just a VB.NET or C# programmer the duplication of code examples in both VB.NET & C# may prove to be annoying and a waste of space.
Conclusion
My own opinion is that this is not the book for a casual hobbyist but aimed more towards at least a semi-professional developer. You will get more than a basic grounding in ASP.NET but will have to put in a fair bit of effort to extract everything the book has to offer. But what a lot it has to offer. The range of material covered is excellent. Of the many highlights the chapters on Datagrids & DataLists and Datasets were particularly impressive. The author's enthusiasm for ASP.NET shines throughout the book and his narrative style kept many of the duller topics interesting. The pace of the book is never pedestrian and sometimes quite frantic but always leaving you wanting even more.
At the end of the book you should feel confident to develop your own ASP.NET web sites in either C# or VB.NET. This book is another welcome addition to my bookshelf.
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Summary: A great reading
Review: Written by a web expert, it shows readers how to create the basic, dynamic, and advanced ASP.NET pages in Microsoft's .Netprogramming languages, and explains how to interact with the database using ADO.NET. The author reviews the fundamentals on Object Oriented Programming with clever and easy to use examples. He also explains how to create web forms and web controls. The author covers every aspect of developing a Web application including building an e-commerce site or reinforcing the security. One thing I particularly like in this book is the code published in the two main .Net languages, C# and VB.NET. Thumb up !
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