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Summary: Beginner's Book on ASP.NET
Review: Like many other people I have bought my share of computer books with high hopes, only to be either bored to death by poor writing or code examples of fleas. What separates this book from most others is its clarity and focus. It does not try to be all things to all people...it's purpose is to bring you to an intermediate level.The best way to learn programming is to study small, less advanced applications and progress to more advanced topics. They teach concepts within the scope of a real world application, which I really like. Too often programming books give esoteric examples that you can't really apply to a real application. You are not going to be at the most advanced level after finishing this book, but that is not the objective. But this book will teach you all the basics and give you a great foundation for more advanced topics. This book would get a 5-star except for the fact that it totally ignores C#. And to be honest there are probably more C# ASP.NET apps out there than VB.NET. I also thought they should have had some examples of accessing SQL Server with stored procedures instead of inline SQL. I also thought it was a bit tacky that they used a Costume Ordering site as their example application. Bringing up a combo box with items like severed heads was a bit tacky.
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Summary: Another excellent Murach book
Review: Prior to reading this book I read Murach's SQL for SQL Server and Murach's Beginning Visual Basic .NET. Next on the list for me is Murach's VB .NET Programming with ADO .NET. Before reading this book I recommend that you read Murach's Beginning Visual Basic .NET. Murach's ASP .NET Programming with VB .NET begins where that book left off. The book focused on developing an online store selling Halloween products. The online store was iteratively improved as concepts were introduced -- exception handling, charge card validation, database retrieval, security, and so on. Sometimes a given feature was implemented several different ways in order to compare and contrast alternate implementation approaches. Although this was an introductory book, I feel I now have a good understanding of ASP.NET methodology, implementation issues, concepts, and tools. Because of the Murach 2 page approach, I feel I have high comprehension of the material I read. The authors did a great job in presenting the material in a logical fashion with practical application for each concept they introduced.
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Summary: SUPERB
Review: Simply said: One of the best books I have ever bought!
I needed to dive into ASP.NET pretty fast because I had a project running to its deadline. I was a programmer who knew Visual Basic and Delphi pretty well. I did know the theory of ASP.NET but had no practical experience. This book teached me in a record time how to build and get my first web application up and running.
The best starter's book you can imagine. The second book I bought on the subject was ASP.NET Unleashed, which is a marvellous book if you have some ASP.NET experience.
For a beginner Murach's book is simply a dream, and although I have written a couple of web applications now, I still use it as a quick reference. WORTH EVERY PENNY IN GOLD.
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Summary: Detailed ASP.NET reference
Review: The book is a good reference for either beginnner or expert ASP.NET developer. It has the depth and provides a very detailed description of several aspects of ASP.NET, covers all major topics - controls, validators, state management, session, security, ADO.NET programming and simple HTML tutorial. The weakness is not a deep presentation of VB.NET, web services, XML, .NET framework in general.
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Summary: Excellent for beginning programmers!
Review: This book teaches the fundamentals of Microsoft web development in a detailed and well-rounded manner, explaining why you need to do something a certain way, instead of just telling you to do it but not explaining the reason for doing so.
You also learn a good deal about ADO.NET and database programming for the Web, which is a very important component of many Web applications.
This book isn't perfect for everyone, but for beginners it provides a decent foundation in Web development in the Windows platform,and helps to demystify Web programming for those who are more familiar with desktop development.
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Summary: Best book on ASP .NET
Review: With 12 years in software development, and just completing an ADO .NET course I can truthfully say this book will get you up to speed fast and creating a fully functioning ASP .NET web site using SQL Server and ADO .NET. I have purchased and sold some of the "Learn ASP .NET in 24 hours, 24 days", ect... That just could not teach this topic. The publisher's web site has downloads for all the code from this book, and two free chapters. They layout of this book is excellent. The book covers.. ·ADO.NET
·Disconnected Data Access, Datasets, data tables
·Managing State (5 ways)
·User Controls
·Cookies
·Data Grids
·Authentication/Security Great choice for someone who wants to get up and running fast, or to use as a reference. You will need more information on ADO.NET that this book does not cover in enough detail such as updating databases, and custom grid paging. Buy Microsoft's ADO.NET Core Reference ISBN: 0-7356-1423-7 (no doubt the best book on ADO.NET)
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