Rating:  - Great For Beginners!
This is probably the best beginners book out there. This book intruduces the new technology as if the reader knew nothing but simple HTML. Don't get me wrong, the book covers all the new and advance features of ASP .NET, but the writer address the reader as if the reader new little about web development. If you've been VERY active in the ASP.NET development for the past few months, I suggest you read Wrox's Professional ASP.NET. If you have been one with very little time to involve yourself with the .NET code, i suggest you get this book now.
Rating: - Excellent Book on a beta product
I have several books on ASP.NET and find this one to be the most current with beta 2. Normally I am not a fan of the "Sam's Teach Yourself in 21 days" series as I find the books at a simpler level than I prefer. This one is an exception in that it provides a great base for most of the important concepts. Undoubtably there will be more comprehensive books written as ASP.NET commercially releases, but this is a great book to get a good overall understanding with examples that actually work.
Rating:  - Excelent for new comers, Ok for developers
When i was looking for a book about ASP.NET, i was searching for a book that could give me an idea what .NET was about, then i found this book which i thought that would be easy to follow for me, that i've got experience with web development but not too much ASP lines written.
Once i get the book, i was really excited about it, it's really easy to follow and ASP.NET is an excelent technology... but now that i'm on chapter 6 i think that it's not enough for me... it do not covers some ideas as much as i would like...
Neither, there is nothing about Visual Studio.net, maybe some chapter giving some tips could be great.
Rating: - Great book if you want to start with ASP.NET
I would like to congratulate Chris Payne for his great book Asp.NET in 21 days. I read his book with a lot of fun and interest. The author covers in this book all the topics that are of real interest when it comes to asp.net. I liked the structure of the book's content and the easy to read written language :-). It is also a nice added value that it is possible to download the code of the listings on SAMS' website.
All in all it is a great book that I will recommend everybody that I will meet and who wants to learn Asp.net by examples with their explanations.
Rating:  - A great primer for the newbie...experienced devs may sift...
The book is a great piece of work...a very good look at what ASP.NET can do for devs. The examples are very basic and are layed out nicely. The methods are taught in ways which are beneficial to both newbies to ASP 2.0+/ASP.NET, and as well for experienced developers.
However, I would have wished that the authors spent more time on the topic of C#. Most of the examples in the book were carried out in VB.NET...which is logical, since this is expected to be the dominant method of coding...but the so-called "chapter" on C# merely introduces the language, briefly states it s relationship and purpose in the .NET Framework, and then gives a very basic syntactical outline of how to write C# code (which, if you are familiar with Java/JavaScript, won't leave too much of an impression).
Otherwise, the book is great, and it's one of the better ones out there. A must-read if you're just starting out in taking your Web projects to the next level.
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