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Summary: Excellent, In-Depth Book!
Review: Excellet book. This book starts with the basic fundamentals and works its way to advanced ASP.net development.
Perfect for beginners AND experienced asp developers who want to migrate their web applications to ASP.net. It's clear and concise. This book thoroughly explains everything you need to start programming in ASP.net. Anyone can learn ASP.net with this book! I give "Using ASP.net" 5 stars.
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Summary: Good asp.net beginner book
Review: Good asp.net beginner bookTarget: Beginners Nice book for who is starting with asp.net, even if you never worked wit asp this book gets you started.
Great samples and the author teach you stuff that almost no other book does such like image processing, mailing, file system and other stuff you usually don't see in a asp.net book but most likely will use. It will definitely open your appetite for a more advanced book. Summary: Buy it if you're starting now with asp.net with few backgrounds on web development.
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Summary: Significant shortfalls, proofreader should be fired
Review: I would mirror the concerns of many reviewers above. Code samples contain frequent errors, including this gem: void page_load(Object Sender, EventArgs e)
{
Dim myDataSet as DataSet; ... switching between language mid code-segment is obviously incorrect - and demonstrates to me that the author hasn't bothered to test the code he's written. This suspicion is further evidenced by his habit of leaving out crucial lines such as includes in other code segments. Add this to his amusingly frustrating behaviour of referring to important concepts in an introduction to a section then never elaborating, I can't help but think this entire book is some sick joke written out of some sort of psychosis he developed as a child. It says in the introduction the author lectures - I pity his students.
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Summary: Nice demo programs
Review: I've written a lot of ASP code and this book helped me make the transition to ASP.NET. The tone and style of the writing make it easy to read, and this really helps you get through a fairly dry subject. Another thing is that the examples isolate the topic at hand instead of obfuscating the topic amongst a dozen other programming techniques.
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Summary: The good stuff
Review: Leinecker is a person who lives to teach others his skills. In the book, he bends over backwards to give the reader bite sized chucks of information that are put together in a useful and logical manner. The thing that really makes me happy about the Asp.Net book is that it is a great instructional guide and it is a great book for reference as well. Its like two for the price of one.
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Summary: Good asp.net beginner book
Review: Target: Beginners Nice book for who is starting with asp.net, even if you never worked wit asp this book gets you started.
Great samples and the author teach you stuff that almost no other book does such like image processing, mailing, file system and other stuff you usually don't see in a asp.net book but most likely will use. It will definitely open your appetite for a more advanced book. Summary: Buy it if you're starting now with asp.net with few backgrounds on web development.
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Summary: A great book to learn ASP.NET (beta edition)
Review: That this book was written in beta is very unfortunate indeed. That it has gone this long without an update is tragic. And that the publisher will not accept a trade-up for a more recent book is downright dirty. The book is not worth its price. There is no CD and the book is laden with beta code that often times does not give the beginner the slightest hint as to what to try to make it work. Yet this piece of work has its qualities. Not able to get anything to work past page 150, I put the book down and began reading two other books on .NET. At a certain point, the .NET light clicked on in my head. And now, a year later, I've returned to this book to find many valuable gems that my other books never mention. This book is best suited for the intermediate .NET programmer, who has grasped the major differing concepts between ASP classic and .NET. Until then, the book is a jumble of listings that seem like you'd never use them. I've found this book to be a helpful (albeit inaccurate) resource when I need to quickly acquaint myself with a new object or class (the only reason I give it TWO stars instead of ONE) If you're a beginner to .NET (or programming) I highly recommend "ASP.NET for Web Designers" by Peter Ladka.
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Summary: The Other Reviewers are Lying to You
Review: The book has no coherent structure. He never relates the abstract information to a practical application or to specific examples of code. If you don't have a background in programming, you're not going to be able to make sense of what he's trying to get at when he talks about programming languages. This is a pattern indicative of the entire book. If you don't have a background in what he's taking about, you won't understand him, but if you do have a background in what he's talking about, you don't need the book. Classic catch 22. The examples include 99.5% of the code needed to work, and the author assumes you can figure out the remaining 0.5%. If you can't, the entire example won't work. This is by no means a reference book on any kind. So often when reading through the book, the author will say that x, y, and z are the most common features/attributes, leaving me scrambling for information on all the features/attributes he left out, which happen to be the ones I need to use. I don't know why I'm getting such a radically different opinion from the other reviews, but I certainly did not link this book.
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Summary: A Great Book for a Great Deal of a Price!
Review: This book guides you through all of the features of Microsoft's .Net environment in a clear and concise matter. Rick explains each feature of ASP.Net and tells how to write it with real-world examples. This is not a re-hash of the documentation or convoluted examples like other programming books, they are explained in a very straight-forward manner. This book is really great asset to those of a user level of Intermediate to Advanced. I really feel you need some experience with Web programming to get the most out of this book. For advanced readers, utilizing the chapters on Dynamic Imaging, WMI, Performance and Message Queuing is totally invaluable, and really makes this book stand out from the rest of the pack. Whether you are looking for a book to help you get jump started with .Net fundamentals or one on Advanced topics, this book will suit your needs.
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Summary: Understandable
Review: This book understandable unlike another book I have on ASP.NET. I don't know why, but authors love to show you their programming prowess at the expense of the material. Leinecker doesn't fall into that trap, but delivers unencumbered content that's understandable.
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