Rating:  - Best book on ASP.NET
I have been asked to create a web application for my company, and I reviewed a number of books on ASP.NET (as well as ADO.NET). This is by far the best I've seen.
The coverage of the various controls is excellent, the examples are small and useful and really explain the material, and you can download the examples from the author's web site.
In addition, this book provides an excellent introduction to ADO.NET for ASP.NET, better than some dedicated books I looked at.
The book goes beyond the superficial, and really covers the issues you run into when writing an application. This is not a rehash of the existing documentation, but a guided tour through what it takes to create a working web application with ASP.NET.
I personally like C#, but it was interesting to see the code both in C# and in VB.NET. I feel like I learned VB.NET along the way, as a bonus, and I realize now how similar these languages really are. You can skip over the language you don't care about (all the examples are in both C# and in VB.NET) but it is fun to see how similar they are.
In any case, I highly recommend this book both for programmers with little ASP experience, and for more advanced programmers as well.
Rating: - Certainly the best book on ASP available
Liberty writes well, but more important he covers the topoic in depth. This book is great. Every example is shown in both C# and VB.NET, and every example is on topic. The depth and breadth of coverage is amazing.
The first part of the book teaches the fundamentals of writing ASP.NET applications, but it also provides a comprehensive introduction to the controls available through the .NET framework. There is good coverage not only of the standard ASP.NET controls, but of such advanced topics as validation and the fancier controls as well.
The book goes on to show, in depth, how to get data out of a database and into your web application, and the general introduction to ADO.NET is alone worth the price of the book.
This is another great book in a series of top flight .NET books from O'Reilly and Jesse Liberty. Highly recommended.
Rating:  - ADO.NET part in this book is confusing.
I've read both this book and wrox's PROFESSIONAL VISUAL BASIC.NET. I found that wrox's book is much clearer than this book. This book just gives you some programming codes without clearly telling you why and no comparasion to each approches.
I'd say I don't like this book. It's so dry and hard to read. I prefer wrox book.
Rating:  - Not easy to read. Better go to wrox book.
Not easy to read. Better go to wrox book.
Rating: - Exactly What I Needed
O'Reilly does it again. I've been programming ASP since Ver 2.0, and I was looking for one reference to bridge the gap between the new and the old. This book did just that. However, this is not a good book to get you started out with the .NET Framework. It doesn't go into detail about the CLR, FCL, etc. Also, like most computer books out these days, the text is a little bloated with programming examples. The authors give programming examples using both VB.NET and C#, which could be a plus or minus depending on the reader. Also, there's an entire chapter that covers many of the new ASP.NET Server side controls, with examples for each. After a few examples, I was ready to move on. All in all, a great book, highly recommended.
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