Rating:  - Book of ASP NET 2.0 heaven
I've been read a lot of ASP NET books, but since I read this one my knowledge of using this tecnology has changed and a lot of concepts in this plataform as well. Therefore, the best ASP NET book I've ever read!
Rating:  - Lies and Greed - no C# in book
"All code samples are presented in VB and C#." If you were able to read the previous sentence describing the book's contents, you, like me, would naturally assume that C# code is present in the book. You would be wrong. The C# code is relegated to the CD only, making reading the book from a C# perspective awkward at best. I've written the publisher, who foolishly asked for feedback. Bottom line, if you develop in C#, this book is not for you.
Rating: - Great ASP.NET 2.0 Book!
I am a web developer that started with Classic ASP and eventually moved to the .NET framework. With the release of .NET 2.0 came a wide variety of new tools and objects to use and I wanted to get up-to-date with all the new features it provided. Looking for the right book (built on a tutorial/reference base) I read through the different reviews of books on ASP.NET 2.0 offered on this site and ultimately chose this book. I AM GLAD I DID!!! This book is jam packed with 1600 pages of tutorial-style code that goes over all the new functions and essentially everything I wanted. The book provides source code in C# as well as VB.NET. If you are looking to come to speed with ASP.NET 2.0 this is definitely the book for you.
-John W. [asp:webDeveloper]
Rating: - A quality book - cannot be ignored
I would give this book 1000 stars if I could, and yet it's far from perfect. How can this be?
I will try to explain.
Well this book is a product of amazing quality, input and hard work from the author.
Here are the pros:
it is only written by one author.
It has complete code listings [it comes in at a wapping 1900+ pages] - and this cannot be underestimated, as lots of books give you snippets so you have to look in 2 or 3 places to understand what you're doing.
The code listings are on the disk and they are very very well organized by chapter. They are in VB and C#
The code listings all work
it has few typos, I'm reading it from front to back and I've come across very little that is wrong.
It progresses very nicely from the simple to the complex
it is intensely practical in the way that it's written being basically one long tutorial covering all the vital aspects ASP.net and how they relate to the .Net framework
the cons:
the listings are in VB which is verbose and a worse choice for a thick book (obviously that's a subjective point)
often the examples contain scads of features (sqldatasource, objectdatasource etc...etc..) that are not explained until later in the book. This can be a good thing though
it's not the only book you can read because even though it goes through all the features it's not definitive and does not contain industrial quality or highly elegant code.
it's very light on theory.
Even having said all that, I still can't recommend this book enough because so much of what passes for computer books (especially on ASP.net) is so awful and incomplete that this tome stands out for the right reasons.
I'm not alone in praising it, even the father of ASP.Net Scott Guthrie gives it 5 stars, that has got to count for something
Rating: - Good book
I'm only partially through the book, but it appears to be very thorough. I'll use it mostly for reference.
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