Product DescriptionA revision of the highly successful second edition, Introduction to ASP.NET, Third Edition offers even more ASP.NET development knowledge. It will familiarize the user with ways to create dynamic web applications using server-side programming technologies. A well-rounded Internet programmer needs to be able to integrate server technologies to produce web applications that not only interact with visitors, but also integrate other computer applications. Students will design and maintain interactive and dynamic Web applications within the Visual Studio 2005 environment.
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Rating: - Awful Book
What a total waste of paper. So many errors in the book, and the code examples also have many errors as well. The writer's narrative style is NOT concise. Do NOT buy this book.
Rating: - Avoid this book
I paid (or I should say my company paid) right around $100 for this book and it was definitely the worst text book I've had through about 6 years of college (spread over the last 20 years). It completely hamstrung the class. The teacher spent so much time running damage control on all the errors in the book that we never made it to last two chapters.
After 3 or 4 chapters we started an errata forum in hopes of answering questions outside of class but there were just too many of them. ... Read More
Rating: - Many parts have not been updated to Visual Studio 2005
This book was upgraded from its 2nd edition. However, there are still some parts having not been updated completely. You might need to take some time to guess. Also earlier editions were written for Visual Studio 2003 so you will have some surprise when using this textbook with Visual Studio 2005. I do not recommend this textbook if you have other choices.
Rating: - Look elsewhere
This book was used as part of an instructor-led course, and from a students perspective, I cannot recommend this book. First, the intended audience is for a person with "No prior knowledge of programming...". This is really not the case. If you are new to programming in general and ASP in particular, then you will struggle through this book.
The author has 17 years of experience, which includes "online course development". Having taken several online courses in programming languages (C++, ... Read More
- Many parts have not been updated to Visual Studio 2005
