Rating:  - Highly recommended
I have read many ASP.NET books but this is so far the only one that have real meat inside. The first 3 chapters alone is well enough to get you started to create your own ASP.NET application. I advise readers of this book to learn C# first to get the most out of it.
This is the first Murach series that I have read and with this outstanding quality, I will most likely look into their other books.
Rating: - The best book ever
I bought this book to learn ASP.NET 2.0 and also to have a good reference for me on 2.0 as i'm not new on ASP.NET, even if you want to learn ASP.NET 2.0 from scratch, you should get this book because its a great value and a great piece of work!
I'm recommending this book because i have a past experience with Murach's books and they were really great as this one.
Rating: - The best book for beginners in ASP
Have you seen the movie "Matrix"? Remember, when Neo says "I know Kung-Fu!" in 1 min after they plugged his head to the computer? I had the same feeling about ASP.NET after reading this book :-)
The book is so easy to read, even though English is my second language.
Rating:  - Not for the Seasoned ASP.NET Developer
A quite differnet style of learning is presented in this book of which I am still undecided on it's usefulness. Basically the book is show by example with not much theory or explantion. This is an absolute beginners level book and due to the books lack of theory I question its usefulness but some do learn better by example.
It does cover step by step how to do some things in Visual Studio which would be very helpful for beginers and possibly provide a little help for the experienced. The book does a good job of explaining how to do things in the IDE while most provide little to no help in this area.
My real beef with the book is the fact that it starts from the begining and this is not implied by it's or Amazon's descriptions. This book should have beginner written all over it. Chapter 2 is titled 'How to develop a one-page web application', chapter 3 is 'How to develop a multi-page web application', chapter 5 is titled 'A crash course in HTML' and chapter 8 is 'How to manage state'.
If you have done more than a couple of ASP.NET projects, any version, I would not recomend this book. While it does cover some of the ASP.NET 2.0 features it's not worth all the other fodder that comes along with it.
Rating: - ANOTHER GREAT BOOK BY MURACH..
I run a consulting firm where we do a lot of work with C# and ASP.Net. This book is simply the best there is to get you up to speed quickly on real world ASP.Net development. The book is easy to follow, but still gives you the depth needed for real world programming. I simply wish I could give it more than 5 stars.
Chuck Easttom
www.cecdata.com
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