Rating:  - Must Have resource
I have not written a review ever on Amazon, but I am writing this. I will make it simple and fast I have been programming for over 10 years and this book was the most impressive 'practical' resource I am ever read. The examples were wide range, but you could feel the entire design process.
Grat stuff, I would like to see more in this series
Rating:  - reads more like a mystery than a reference book...
The code is all over the place in this book. It is fragmented, very hard to follow and does not follow the Patterns and Practices from Microsoft for ASP.NET development.
I realize the book is pretty old, but here are some major issues I found in the book...
- namespace Vs folder structure Vs project name
varies from module to module
- no step by step to make sure you can actually develop the application
- very sketchy on how to use the IPrincipal and IIDentity classes
- no "here's why we did it this way" descriptions
It's just full of gaps and reads more like a mystery than a reference book. I usually find WROX books useful, but this one what a major disapointment. I hope that people consult the Microsoft docs before they use these approaches.
Rating:  - Don't understand the five stars!!!
Well, this is a very good application creation. If you download the code and simply use it. You will have just some minor adjustments to make in web.config file and IIS manager. But, if you want to do it yourself, read every chapter and write down the code. Fiouuuuuuuu!!! Good luck. I tried it and with many help from the wrox forum I just finished it.
So many errors in this book. It's why I canno't give this book 4 or 5 stars. The stuff in it is very professional and working with it is very pleasant but when I buy a book it's for reading and trying it, not for downloading code and running this one.
So keep in mind if you buy this pro book, very good programming concept but poor writing.
Rating:  - It's a great book.
Well. I am beginner in .Net and keen to find a way to develop N-Tier application. This is a good book to start. Some of the them complaint it is unorganized and the sample code cannot run at all. I have tried it and found no problem. Probably they have to read the readme.html file. Anyway, If you want to learn C#. This book definitely not for you. But if you want to learn how people apply N-tier in their website, this is book is for you.
Rating:  - This book is for relative experts... not even novices
I've been programming in ASP for about 3 years, have developed dozens of web applications. I've read and understood Beginning ASP.Net 1.0 (VB ed) by Wrox, as well as Visual Basic.NET How to Program (by Deitel), and decided to purchase ASP.NET Website Programming PDS. I'm sad to say I can't make heads or tails out of this book.
It seems to me that this version was written in haste just to get it out to appease the publishers. Explainations of the code is totally insufficient.
Unless you consider yourself an expert in VB.NET and VS.NET, I'd avoid this book like the plague. Seriously, I'm not some fool off of the street, and I can't even get the source code to work on my local machine! The Wrox P2P forums are of no help too. Apparently, there are more than a few people running XP pro that have the VB edition of this book that are having considerable difficulties with this book.
Buyer beware. I want my money back personally.
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