Beginning ASP.NET Using VB.NET

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Summary: This Will Probably Be My Last WROX Book
Review: This is my first WROX book, but it will probably be my last. It is hard to concentrate on the topic when there are so many misspellings and grammar errors. The content appears like it is the authors' rough drafts. If I am going to pay $[money] for a book, I expect it to be professionally done. It makes you wonder whether you are actually being taught by people who know what they are talking about...

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Summary: Decent start, but it needs to be updated badly
Review: We used this book for a class that we were running for work. I would say that it is a decent book considering the time it was written, but now there should be better books out there. It doesn't cover code behind until very late in the book which is a fundamental improvement that should've been covered much earlier. Also, there are some errors in this book that are not addresses in the eratta, and the Visual Studio .NET IDE is not covered in this book. The authors use archaic techniques to do things that a VS .NET developer would do in the IDE, like compiling a library file via the command prompt instead of using the IDE to make that library file. Also, it could use some more information in Web Services since this seems to be the main way that Microsoft wants you to create Enterprise solutions.