Rating:  - Don't Bother With This One
While this book does offer some useful information, it falls far short of what developers need to understand to develop in ASP.NET. The code examples (which you can download from the publisher's web site)are simply text snippets of code, impossible to run on their own, and less than useful when taken out of context -- very disappointing.
There are better books out there that offer much more and better, with complete examples that run. I would not recommend this book.
Rating:  - GET THIS BOOK !!
Great book to learn ASP.NET programming -- lots of sample code, every on in both C# and VB.NET. I'd say, for somebody who is new to ASP.NET or anybody, like me, who is coming from ASP 3.0, this book is it!
Howerver, if you (like me) are interested in using C# for programming ASP.NET apps (instead of VB.NET) and you are new to C#, I recommend you learn C# first, then move ahead to learing ASP.NET.
Rating: - Comprehensive and well written
This is another well written and fully comprehensive book by O'Reilly. I was very impressed by the excellent coverage and by the quality of the writing.
One key feature of this book is that it goes welll beyond the basics, and well beyond the Microsoft documentation to explain not only how you do things, but why you do them. Each concept is put in context and illustrated with working code.
The authors support this book well on the web, and full source code is available.
In short, I was very impressed by this excellent book.
Rating:  - A good starting point for ASP.NET
First of all, I would have given 5 stars if the last chapters were edited better for the examples, but I am glad that the book covers little of everything for us to get a taste of it. Anyways think of it as combination appetizer plate. Once I read and did the samples you just get anxious for more.
I would definetly recommend this book compared to the other books, like Wrox (who tend to put too many chefs in the same kitchen) making the book inconsistent. After this book you can then look for more in depth on the topics you are interested in. Mr. Libery prepared this dish in a well composed manner for us to tryout before ordering the main dish.
Rating:  - Great for beginner book
Programming ASP.net does a wonderful job of explaining ASP.net's event driven model and the rest of the core feature sets to ASP.net. It also targets both new developers using VB.Net and also C#. While this a great book for new ASP developers, its definitely not a book for those developers who need the nitty gritty details for the ASP.net classes. The book also doesn't touch enough on extending ASP.NET w/ HTTP Modules and leaves out a lot of things that seasoned developer would find useful such as explanations on the distributed debugging features of Visual Studio.NET IDE, handling file uploads, handling email related task, etc.
If you are a new ASP.NET developer, this is the book for you.
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