Rating:  - Great for getting up to speed on ASP.NET
I bought this book because I saw that much of its content is devoted to ASP.NET, and I needed to go from WEB newbie(I had never written any WEB-based software) to WEB developer. I have Prosise's MFC book, and I'm very ambivalent toward it. However, I am very impressed with Prosise's writing in this text. He has explained things very clearly with regard to ASP.NET. Prosise not only shows you how, but also explains why in this book. The content he covered was perfect for me. I've used nearly everything he teaches. This book is my ASP.NET reference. The first four chapters are supposed to get us up to speed on the .NET framework. I think the book does a poor job of this. However, that doesn't seem to be Prosise's intent. I would recommend a different book if you are new to C# and .NET. This book concentrates more on web development.
Rating:  - Excellent Writing
In short - a really readable converage of .NET ; emphasizes asp and c#. I'd also recommend Francesco Balena's Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET as well.
Rating: - Amazing !!
The book is really amazing, Jeff's capability to simplify complex issues is unpresedented, i was hating and rejecting web programming till i read this book, Im a VB.NET developer, that didn't prevent me from geting all the benifits from c# samples in the book, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Rating: - wide breadth of material & plenty of practical code examples
The book is divided into 3 sections:
1. Essential Concepts: covers .NET overview, compiler use, C# syntax, types, exception handling, FCL, Windows forms
2. ASP.NET: covers ASP.NET forms, controls, web apps., web services, security
3. The Cutting Edge: covers ADO.NET, XML, multithreading, remoting
The book is an excellent resource. I used one of the examples to code up a proof of concept web app. in very short order. I had no problem compiling and running any of the other examples. The writing style is fresh, and easy to read. The book comes with soft copy in HTML Help format that is very handy to read at your workstation. There is no skimping on technical details, but the material is covered in a way that is easy to understand. -- Reviewed by Bill M.
Rating: - Ideal First .NET Book
I wish I could have read this book earlier. The knowledge extracted from it, would have save me a lot of time (of reading the documentation of .NET or try to start working from scratch). If you are planning to start learning .NET from a theoretical perspective, but also be immediately ready for writing applications, this book is very good for it (fundamentally if you are a web developer). No one could expect that a book of such huge technology as .NET is, could give us all the necessary details that we need to know. In this case, Prosise give us (through a very simple way of telling) the important aerial view that at least I need to understand a technology, without loosing important details. I think that this book give you the kick to start in an excellent way. If you want go deep, now you have all the weapons to know what you want to learn. If you already have read some .NET books and have acquired a good knowledge of the whole framework, this book would not tell you much, but for the starter is perfect.
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