Rating:  - Websites ? Do it yourself
This is an excellent book for those who know computers and have some know how of using a programming language. It teaches one how to make a web site from start to end. Easy approach and simplicity, they have troed to keep things easy. Nice humor too.
Worth buying.
Deepak Sharma
http://www.orientindia.biz
Rating: - Good for novice .net programmer
This book gives a very good start for a novice .net programmer. The best thing about this book is that every example is given in C# and VB.NET
Rating:  - Excellent ASP.NET Intro for Beginners
I was a total novice two years ago to ASP.NET programming and bought this book for a start... The author's simplicity and sense of humour with the subject gave me a very good foundation and I was able to develop my first ASP.NET with VB site. I'm a good .NET programmer now and have gone further into Windows-forms, .NET Remoting/ Distributed Objects and .NET Wireless which are not covered in this book... but nevertheless I still (fondly) have Zak's book on my desktop and highly recommend it for beginners. I believe it deserves the 5 star.
Rating: - Wonderful Practical Book
At first I was kind of skeptical of a book that promises to enable me to build my own web site, but this book delivers.
What separates this book from most other programming books is that each of the examples in the book point to some goal, which is to help complete an intranet web site. So you are not only learning, you are seeing the application grow and even having some fun putting it together...imagine that?
Some of the previous reviewers decried the fact that this book didn't use Visual Studio IDE. I don't think this is any deterrent to using this book. I was easily able to use the Visual Studio .NET 2003 IDE for this book.
Some suggestions I would make to improve this book would be to use examples from MSDE instead of Access. Provide more examples of using stored procedure data sources instead of inline sql.
Rating: - Great book, it will start you up
I found myself spending dozens of hours in the last few months searching the Web to find answers to common aspnet related problems. The Web has a great resource of aspnet tutorials and you will most likely find anything you are looking for without the need of purchasing a book. You will soon need a pair of thick glasses after spending all that time searching/learning online.
Not yet blind and still eager to learn I decided to buy Zak's book: I read the first 400 pages passed the DataSet chapter in one single day. It felt like getting just the right answers to so many of the problems I have encountered that I really wish I had this book few months ago. The book leads you through very good examples to what are the basics of aspnet, how to accomplish common tasks that turned into living hell too many of my days. Maybe I was already finding my way into the world of aspnet but this book really kicked me in. A real world project example brought to life, chapter after chapter, was definately an invaluable add in. After reading the book, and you have a lot to work with, you' ll go back online to search for more specific articles to extend your knowledges.
I hope Zak will soon write another book maybe more advanced this time, so I can keep on learning just as easily. If I switch to C# I don't have to go further I already have the right book.
Great Job!
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