Product Description This book offers intermediate to advanced IT professionals the chance to learn the inner workings of new SOAP/XML developments by working through a real-life application. Readers will design an accounting product for the Web using ASP .NET and Web Services. The application can be written in any .NET language and all communication is over the Internet. Readers will walk away feeling confident about developing real-life projects using ASP .NET.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - One of my open-on-table books
I never write reviews, but this is an ex.Message :-)
The most helpful part of this book is author's business and architectural approaches.
There are some bugs in the code-examples, but!
Even if you're not experienced developer you can find and fix them.
More you can take it as sudoku puzzles.
Only one thing I would consider as a pros - is an examples based on the OLEDB non-SQL provider, which is little bit outdated, for small and medium-size companies.
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Rating: - Unsupported and Outdated?
I got this book mainly to reuse the GenEditAdd component described in it. However, it seems that the book is totally unsupported now.
The author's web site has not been updated recently. The versions of the source code available from the author and the publisher are different, and at least one of those versions appears to be based on a .NET beta.
The author's contact email address does not seem to be working. Neither does the contact form on his website.
Rating: - Ok, but...
The writing style is great and his projects are pretty well thought out. However, I have to downgrade my rating of this book because: 1) Appears to be based on an early beta. 2) Most of his coding examples produce poorly structure html. To borrow a phrase from the xhtml/xml world, it is not "well formed." In other words, it doesn't follow accepted w3 standards. 3) His use of CSS is just flat out not right.
Rating: - good book
~Part I - The ASP.NET Programming Environment Chapter 1 - Introducing ASP.NET Chapter 2 - Introducing ASP.NET Web Forms and Controls Chapter 3 - Using ADO.NET in the .NET Framework Chapter 4 - Data Binding Chapter 5 - Input Validation Chapter 6 - User Controls Chapter 7 - Custom Controls Chapter 8 - Business Objectives Chapter 9 - Working with ASP.NET Web Services Chapter 10 - ASP.NET Applications Chapter 11 - Caching Chapter 12 - Tracing ... Read More
Rating: - Great real world examples
The author's ADO chapter was excellent. I found the entire book to be a great source with well thought out examples. I have 6 other ASP.net books, and I highly reccomend this one.
- Unsupported and Outdated?
- Ok, but...
- Great real world examples
