Rating:  - One piece of a book for Junior to Senior Developer
I have read lots of books on asp.net and seriouslly this book
is what I needed. Some books are very basic where other books
are totally advance. This book solve both purpose. It teaches
you how to start making webform using asp.net and then on
the advance level it also teaches you security issues and
how to develop real time application using asp.net
Rating: - Great Book
I have little to add on how fantastic the book is; other reviewers covered that in depth. I do want to mention however that I had no trouble whatsoever following the examples given my inexperience in VB.NET. I also want to advise users of the book that it does not use VS development environment. I found the transition difficult due to various conventions VS has, most importantly the code-behind model. (I was also surprised to find that all my vb files compile into one file, rather than a file for each!) To remedy this situation, this Author has a book titled "ASP.NET KickStart" which (generously) covers all aspects of developing ASP.NET applications using Visual Studio. I would recommend the latter book in addition to this book.
Rating:  - Migrating from Classic ASP to ASP.NET?
If your an old school, classic asp developer and are ready to plunge into ASP.NET then this book is worth every penny.
I had been told by reliable sources that asp.net was not that much different then classic asp. They were wrong. Very wrong. I tried to learn .net w/o this book and fell flat on my face, but using it as a reference made all the difference and helped me quickly wrap my brain around how the .net platform comes together to build dynamic pages.
The book is not perfect. Some of the examples are vague and do not apply to any real-world example I could think of, but with a little creativity and help from Google I was able to adapt the examples to my task at hand.
So again, if you are making the switch, do your self the favor and spend the few dollars. You'll be glad you did.
Rating:  - Terrible-
if you think ASP.NET is merely a newer ASP and you're happy enough to mingle your display with your businses layer code and you don't know and object from a hole in the ground and LIKE IT THAT WAY, then this book will be wonderful for you.
If you came from a Windows developer backyard and are familiar with forms, etc, and you're hoping that this will teach you WinForms, then you'll be entirely let down. Get Essential ASP.NET instead, it'll be a good start.
Rating:  - OK but not worth its weight!
I agree totally with reviewer "MCSD for Microsoft .Net (Atlanta)"
The advantage of ASP.Net is that you can separate Display and logic. Every .aspx page can have a .vb file where you can have commonly shared functions, procedures etc and have most of the display stuff on the .aspx page.
So you could have a simple label control in the .aspx page. In the code behind page (.vb) you can call another class, do a database query and populate the label with the data.
What this author does is have all code in one single .aspx page for the most part. You miss out on knowing the main cool feature of asp.net of separating design and logic!! Stay away from this book.
Buy Beginning ASP.net in VB.Net by Matthew Macdonald or
"Developing Web Applications with Microsoft VisualBasic.Net and Visual C#.Net" and is from Microsoft Press with a red cover. Both are good books, with an OO Approach.
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