Rating:  - Pretty good, but I prefer the o'reilly
I found the book to be generally decent all round. But find myself picking up the o'reilly more often.
I guess I'd like the book if I hadn't seen another. I bought the book because I assumed that a MS Press book should have a lot of detail. However I found that it went over the basics well but didn't offer a lot of detail. I feels like the book expects you'll be looking up MSDN for detail. Also, even though there is a "real life" section in the book, I found that the examples, while decent, didn't offer as much insight into the practical use of things like controls. I'm not a very creative person and examples that go a little beyond the literal use of a feature helps a lot in giving me insight into the many ways I can use it.
Like I said, decent book. I'd like it if I didn't have something to compare it against.
Rating:  - Best asp.net book and 1 of best computer books overall
This is one of the best computer books I have ever encountered on ANY subject in nearly 15 years of doing software development. The topics are presented in a chronological order that is excellent for learning. Dino goes into the details that any expert needs to know about what is going on under the hood. If you read and truly understand every page of this book, you will be an ASP.NET expert. You'll know what you need to architect AND develop highly scalable, fast performing real-world web apps. You'll have enough understnading on what ASP.NET is doing under the hood to diagnose any problems you encounter.
This is how books should be written, but very few are. I made the mistake of buying the O'Reilly book on the subject (and I usually like O'Reilly books), and it is nothing but a lightweight (and often imprecise and inaccurate) overview compared to this book.
My advice -- don't fool around with other amateurish books on the subject -- go straight for the definitive expert treatise and get this book.
Rating: - A good book for experienced programmers
This book covers a lot of in-depth information about ASP.NET 1.1. Its well-organized information is very useful for us to save precious time in searching and exploring. Thanks a lot, Mr. Dino Esposito.
Suggestions for the author:
(1) Use more graphical presentations if possible (could be more concise and organized)
(2) Please add more real-world code samples!!! - a bit boring to read dry descriptions
Rating:  - Not so great
I purchased this book because it is from MS Press. But this book really disappointed me. There is no logical flow . There is a lot of text in this book but it is very hard to keep your interest in this book. Sometimes I felt that even English wasn't good. I tried to read this book at different times of the day ,morning ,evening,before dinner, after dinner, on weekends ,during weekdays but nothing changed.I want to 'donate' this book to someone. My personal advice is 'don't buy this book unless you have read a few chapters at the book-shop'. In fact Jeff Prosise's book on .NET has better material on ASP.NEt than this book.
Rating:  - Very impressive
I was really impressed w/ this book. It is high quality and very well-written.
It covers all of the core issues w/ ASP.NET
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