Rating:  - lacks a lot of information
This book proclaims at the start that it is for an audience ranging from beginners to veterans of programming.
Even if you are a veteran programmer, you will probably be at a loss after you follow the directions in the first 30 pages of this book. But if you aren't a veteran programmer, you will most likely find yourself lost on page 28.
Not lost as in confused, but lost as how to solve the numerous problems you may face in configuring IIS and the user accounts.
Page 28 gets you ready to run your first .aspx file from your localhost, and assumes you will have no problems. But you most likely will. So many things can go wrong, and this book does not even begin to address the things that can go run even as it leads you thru your first "simple" ASP.NET example.
It doesn't even tell you how to look at event logs, much less how to solve them. So it makes sense why this book is supposedly targeted to suck a big audience: the suckers who will buy it and give up after the first of many cryptic errors from IIS, or the veterans who may just pick up a few tips.
After many hours of research, no thanks to this book nor the forums it offers, did I learn that I had to change my machine.config file to refer to "system" instead of "machine".
And this can be a dangerous quick fix.
In summary, this book is not worth it unless you are completely familiar with how to install and use IIS, and finally configure it for ASP.NET. Not even a mention about the aspnet_mp nor the asp_regiis -r -i command line config. Did the author think you already knew this, even if you were a beginner?
The fact that the author avoided mentioning any of the difficulties you can face in just getting IIS/ASP.NET configured makes the book a bad choice unless you are very familiar with those configurations already.
Rating:  - Awesome Primer!
This book is helping me to learn ASP.NET with VB.NET. I wish the author would have spent more time discussing the IDE of VisualStudio.NET, but as a beginner's book, it's everything I'd hoped for!
Rating:  - real world examples
This book is a must for anyone just getting started in asp.net. It gives both vb and c# examples for everthing. Best of all this book gives you examples of code for things you will actually use. Like username/password authentication, validation on form fields, database connections, how to move your subroutines into code behind, etc. Also you can get the first four chapters free from sitepoint before you buy.
Rating: - real world examples
This book is a must for anyone just getting started in asp.net. It gives both vb and c# examples for everthing. Best of all this book gives you examples of code for things you will actually use. Like username/password authentication, validation on form fields, database connections, how to move your subroutines into code behind, etc. Also you can get the first four chapters free from sitepoint before you buy.
Rating: - Simply Awesome!
I got this book a while back based on the recommendations of others on Amazon.com. Been taking my time reading it before I go to sleep. Everyone is defintely right! I love this book and it's well worth the purchase price. You can't go wrong with it's no nonsense instruction. If you would like to see what I've learned from this book.., log onto my website. http://www.wdndigital.com. This book has taught me alot about ASP.NET.
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