Rating:  - a v. gud asp.net 2.0 intro book
This would be the best book for introducing someone new to asp.net 2.0. The book is very practical and does it job
educating the idiot like the beginning word suggests in its title. I have notice in later chapters 8 onwards where the author refers to a control when the code is hard coded into
the aspx page. This can be confusing in a beginner book.
I felt that the authors did not do justice by giving partially completed code from chapter 12 onwards. My motivation kind of died after that since there was alot of compilation errors and so forth for a beginners book. It is hard to understand how the other reviewers where able to get the rest of the code running without going through the same problems that I am having.
Unfortunately like other programmers I don't have time to debug author's code.
Rating:  - Magnum Opus
This book is a masterpiece. The title is a little misleading (in a good sense) as the book not only covers ASP.NET but also the basics of SQL Server and ADO.NET programming. This book is not for a novice though. You need a good grasp of the fundamentals of .NET Framework, ADO.NET and ASP.NET. A lot of areas are touched upon including T-SQL programming, ADO.NET programming, Serialization, Cryptography, Credit card payment integration, Web Services and ofcourse ASP.NET. As suggested by one of the reviewers, there is tons of code to write but when you complete the book you would have gained a lot of knowledge and surely be pleased. Easily one of the best books that I've read. Deserves more than a 5 star.
Rating: - Best code you'll ever find.
There's not much more I could add to these reviews, because they are the exact same thing that I have been telling every one concerning this book. The thing I can add about this book, and all of the other ones Cristian has written is this: When ever you look through his errata sections for any corrections to the books, you'll mostly just find corrections to the paragraphs with descriptions, and not the code. It's as solid as it gets, solid as it gets. Most books that I own have at least two very garish errors, or typos in the code examples it's self.
In all his books you'll find the best practices you could ever find, so it's almost recomended to pick up this book (or the PHP version of the same book) when initially learning ASP.net 2.0, because you'll learn a lot more in a lot less time than reading tomes on the details and theory that a lot of the other books offer.
The man is better than a master of his craft, and his books are some of the best books you'll ever read world wide. He makes even the hardest technical chalanges fun and friendly, and in the end, you'll feel encoraged to want more.
Rating: - Good comprehensible book
The book is truly for a novice, but only newbies to C# and not, say, Java, will survive chapter 3 of the book. I am a Java programmer and to me all that was the same idea with different syntax. In order not to get lost in varioius detailes of different C# object, the reader must be well familliar with OOP principles. Experience with other OO programming languages will undoubtedly help.
Other than that, which is typical of any programming book, the book is very informative and well organized. The author does a good job explaining various possibilities for working with databases in C#. I really like it. Recommended.
Rating: - I thought was good
This was the first programming book that I have ever picked up that actually had a readable tone. Microsoft Press and O'Reilly books are so unreadably blah that I have yet to finish one.
This book explains it all. If you have a basic understanding of programming then this book can help you learn alot of ASP C# features. The book also explains and walks through the design of relational data tables and writing stored procedures. I will stop and just say it covers it all, start to finish!
I cannot stress how readable and easy to understand this book is. I'm am going to try another Apress book and hope the readability is consistent and that it wasn't just the authors.
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