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ASP.NET by Example
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Author: Steven A. Smith, Nicholas Chase, Glenn Cook, Nathen Grass, Vincent W. Mayfield
List Price: $29.99
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ISBN: 0789725622
Publisher: Que (21 December, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 129,133
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
Disappointing
After reading some of the other "by Example" books, this one was a disappointment. XML by example was excellent.
This book was too full of errors, and would do more harm than good for someone's first book.
There are better books out there to learn ASP.NET.Perhaps a second edition, with closer editing, would be better
Rating: 4 out of 5
ASP.NET ABCs
This book seems to be geared towards classic ASP developer who wants to learn about ASP.NET. There are chapters explaining the difference between ASP.NET and classic ASP and migrating Web applications from classic ASP to ASP.NET. Some code examples use HTML with embedded VB, some use HTML with code-behind files coded in C#, and some use HTML with embedded C# code. The book discusses .NET architecture/framework in some detail and explains complicated topics such as: MSIL, CLR, and JIT quite well. The book covers a lot of territory, including ADO.NET, working with XML data, HTML and Server Controls, Validation Controls, Debugging, User Controls, and Web Services. There are several appendixes which cover ASP.NET syntax, ADO.NET object model, VB.NET language reference, and C# language reference. This book is a concise and incomplete reference of ASP.NET, but that appears to have been author's intent. It's well written, well organized and easy to understand. I think the intended audience, which is a beginner-to-intermediate Web developer, will find it useful. The author makes an assumption that the reader is familiar with HTML, XML, VB or C#, and knows how to use Visual Studio.NET. DO NOT buy this book if you studying for Microsoft Certification exam/s, it's not intended for that purpose.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Good Quick Book full of examples
Pros:1. The book really gets you to the code quickly which is what I like. 2. The book features code in both VB.NET and C#
(Francis B Gallagher from catonsville review incorrectly mentions that it does not contain code from both the lang. The author mentions on pg 42 that due to space constraints he will list only one lang or the other. The "other" code is available on the website.) Cons: I did not give it 5 stars because it assumes that you have already worked on ASP before and keeps making annoying comparisons throughout the text.
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