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Summary: Look elsewhere - little content - poor examples
Review: Unlike Jesse Liberty's Programming C# book, this book does not measure up.
It leaves one wondering if he has ever written a real Asp.Net application.
This book is also very bloated . Everything is shown in VB and C# AND the whole program listing (even IDE generated stuff) is often shown multiple times (is he lazy or just trying to increase page count?)
Most examples are very contrived and none of them teach real-world scalable techniques.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: I found the book to be excellent, authors beside knowledge, know how to right a very well organized book, better than 3 already purchased so far, highlly recommended
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Summary: Best book on ASP.NET
Review: I have been asked to create a web application for my company, and I reviewed a number of books on ASP.NET (as well as ADO.NET). This is by far the best I've seen. The coverage of the various controls is excellent, the examples are small and useful and really explain the material, and you can download the examples from the author's web site. In addition, this book provides an excellent introduction to ADO.NET for ASP.NET, better than some dedicated books I looked at. The book goes beyond the superficial, and really covers the issues you run into when writing an application. This is not a rehash of the existing documentation, but a guided tour through what it takes to create a working web application with ASP.NET. I personally like C#, but it was interesting to see the code both in C# and in VB.NET. I feel like I learned VB.NET along the way, as a bonus, and I realize now how similar these languages really are. You can skip over the language you don't care about (all the examples are in both C# and in VB.NET) but it is fun to see how similar they are. In any case, I highly recommend this book both for programmers with little ASP experience, and for more advanced programmers as well.
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Summary: Certainly the best book on ASP available
Review: Liberty writes well, but more important he covers the topoic in depth. This book is great. Every example is shown in both C# and VB.NET, and every example is on topic. The depth and breadth of coverage is amazing. The first part of the book teaches the fundamentals of writing ASP.NET applications, but it also provides a comprehensive introduction to the controls available through the .NET framework. There is good coverage not only of the standard ASP.NET controls, but of such advanced topics as validation and the fancier controls as well. The book goes on to show, in depth, how to get data out of a database and into your web application, and the general introduction to ADO.NET is alone worth the price of the book. This is another great book in a series of top flight .NET books from O'Reilly and Jesse Liberty. Highly recommended.
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Summary: ADO.NET part in this book is confusing.
Review: I've read both this book and wrox's PROFESSIONAL VISUAL BASIC.NET. I found that wrox's book is much clearer than this book. This book just gives you some programming codes without clearly telling you why and no comparasion to each approches. I'd say I don't like this book. It's so dry and hard to read. I prefer wrox book.
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Summary: Not easy to read. Better go to wrox book.
Review: Not easy to read. Better go to wrox book.
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Summary: Exactly What I Needed
Review: O'Reilly does it again. I've been programming ASP since Ver 2.0, and I was looking for one reference to bridge the gap between the new and the old. This book did just that. However, this is not a good book to get you started out with the .NET Framework. It doesn't go into detail about the CLR, FCL, etc. Also, like most computer books out these days, the text is a little bloated with programming examples. The authors give programming examples using both VB.NET and C#, which could be a plus or minus depending on the reader. Also, there's an entire chapter that covers many of the new ASP.NET Server side controls, with examples for each. After a few examples, I was ready to move on. All in all, a great book, highly recommended.
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Summary: Good book.. Could be the only ASP.NET book u need
Review: This is my first book for ASP.NET. I like it very much so far. The book flows easily as such. But some of the topics are covered in incosistent depth. For example, the authors went nuts about ASP Controls (the chapter#5 is about 150 pages long!! Out of which the Calendar control is more than 50 pages long!!!). Some topics are, on the other hand, have bare-bones coverage. The editor(s) should have fixed these kind of problems. But overall, the authors have done pretty decent job. This can safely be your first (and may be only) ASP.NET book. For some areas here and there you might need to refer else where. Watch out for the unavaoidable evil in computer books... errata. Looks like the authors used different code base to generate the screen shots :-) Make sure you check their website before pulling ur hair. Despite its minor short-comings, its a very book to learn ASP.NET. It has enough detail to pull off a non-trivial project. Don't let the size intimidate you! It is because of code duplication in both C# and VB.NET.
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Summary: Best Book Yet
Review: I must say, this is the second book I have purchased by Jesse Liberty and he fails to disappoint once again. This book is very straightforward with no filler. There are plenty of code examples and each one is explained in clear and concise language. I would recommend this book for either c# programmers or vb.net programmers. Most of the examples (if not all, haven't finished the WHOLE book yet) are given in both c# and vb.net. Kudos to both authors and O'Reilly editing for releasing a quality book.
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Summary: What a great book!
Review: I loved Liberty's C# tutorial, but this introduction to ASP.NET is even better. This book teaches every aspect of building ASP.NET applications, with detailed analysis of the various controls and good depth of coverage on advanced topics such as data binding and interacting with SQL Server. Yes, this book IS good for beginners (I didn't really know ASP before I read this book) but it is also good for intermediate programmers because it goes way beyond the basics. The first part is introductory and thorough, but the second part (beginning about chapter 14) gets into the nitty gritty of creating custom controls, creating and using web services and then goes on to provide important infomration about security, performance and deployment. I can't think of a better primer on ASP.NET and I recommend it highly.
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