Rating:  - A top ASP.Net 2.0 effort
For those who want to understand and work with sophisticated ASP.Net 2.0 websites and are familiar with many of the detailed aspects of the technology side of things, this book is a terrific find. After having pushed through the details of each of the major areas of .Net and having become Microsoft certified, it was still a leap to make some valuable use of what the .Net can be used as in the real world. This is where to go next to pull the syntax and the quality techniques together.
The "Pro" books have there place. There is an immense amount of technical detail to .Net. It is quite an advantage to have it pulled together in a tour from beginning considerations to final implementation of a very significant website example. Quite appealing is that being so complete, it serves ably two other purposes: a core for adaptation to many other website ideas and a takeoff point to even more advanced techniques without reinventing the wheel.
Rating: - Excellent Book
As a recent college graduate I felt like I needed to know a little more about asp.net 2.0 before I started trying to code for a living. This book
blew me away with all it offered. Its simply the best book you can buy for learning to program using C# and Asp.net to create ntier architecture solutions.
Rating:  - Nice overview of how to implement 2.0 features.
Overall, I think the book was a good investment and well worth the read. It lives up to everything that the title implies. The only reason that I didn't give it five stars is that the links for downloading the code have been broken since I got the book (several weeks now). It would be very helpful to have the project open and be able to reference the code directly rather that having to page back to revisit code that has already been covered, but is now being referenced as the project progresses.
Rating: - A great idea, a very good implementation
When I ran across the 1.1 version of this book, I had hoped there would be an update for 2.0. I love the idea of the book - a complete project run from beginning to end.
Marco's explanations and examples generally very good and I feel like he accomplished what it looks like he set out to do with the book. The project used in the book is a solid foundation for learning about ASP.Net 2.0 covering a wide range of topics.
Generally speaking, this book has gotten a lot of use, whether looking for something specific that Marco did, an idea on how I might do something, or comparing notes on my approach vs the one in the book.
I am giving the book 4 stars (instead of 5) simply because I think he could have covered a couple of things in a little more depth and still kept the flow and feel of the book overall.
Rating: - Good ASP.NET book but not for beginners
The title of this book should be *Advanced* ASP.NET Problem - Design - Solution. This is not a book for those new to ASP.NET (at the ASP.NET page http://www.asp.net there is a section that includes ASP.NET books divided by beginner and professional; very useful). This book is for the developer who has programmed at least 6 or so websites with ASP.NET and wants to get into creating forums, mailings list, profiling, allowing the user to choose their own themes/skins, etc. The author assumes you have a firm handle on ASP.NET (also on HTML, CSS, Object oriented programming, C#, SQL and SQL stored procedures, n-tier design of web apps, etc) and quickly moves into advanced programming with ASP.NET. I would rate this book highly because it does cover a lot; it's just not practical for beginners or even intermediate level ASP.NET developers.
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