Designing Microsoft(r) ASP.NET Applications

Rating:
Summary: Absolutely Awful
Review: If you're thinking about buying this book, don't. Go with a reputable publisher who puts out quality work like O'Reilly or Wrox. This book is a piece of trash. The only "interesting perspective" it provides is the nearly half of the book that is dedicated to praising what a wonderous achievement the .NET platform is. The author just can't get enough of telling people who already bought the book that .NET is better than Java and actually is an original idea. Well, he does a lot of this and very little of teaching the language. There are very few examples, and those that are there aren't useful at all. The index is also terrible, making this book also worthless as a reference book. I really can't find any redeeming qualities about this book except that it's printed on fairly high quality paper. Far better than it deserves. If you're completely new to this, it might be useful as an introduction, but there are better books for that as well.

Rating:
Summary: Absolutely Awful
Review: If you're thinking about buying this book, don't. Go with a reputable publisher who puts out quality work like O'Reilly or Wrox. This book is a piece of trash. The only "interesting perspective" it provides is the nearly half of the book that is dedicated to praising the wonderous achievement that the .NET platform is. The author just can't get enough of telling people who already bought the book that .NET is better than Java and actually is an original idea. Well, he does a lot of this and very little of teaching the language. There are very few examples, and those that there are there aren't useful at all. The index is also terrible, making this book also worthless as a reference book. I really can't find any redeeming qualities about this book except that it's printed on fairly high quality paper. Far better than it deserves. If you're completely new to this, it might be useful as an introduction, but there are better books for that as well.

Rating:
Summary: Absolutely Awful
Review: If you're thinking about buying this book, don't. Go with a reputable publisher who puts out quality work like O'Reilly or Wrox. This book is a piece of trash. The only "interesting perspective" it provides is the nearly half of the book that is dedicated to praising what a wonderous achievement the .NET platform is. The author just can't get enough of telling people who already bought the book that .NET is better than Java and actually is an original idea. Well, he does a lot of this and very little of teaching the language. There are very few examples, and those that are there aren't useful at all. The index is also terrible, making this book also worthless as a reference book. I really can't find any redeeming qualities about this book except that it's printed on fairly high quality paper. Far better than it deserves. If you're completely new to this, it might be useful as an introduction, but there are better books for that as well.

Rating:
Summary: tis book is OK
Review: It include some useful info such as Configuring an Application,
but didn't cover how asp.net access a serviced component (com+ application written by vb.net or c#). Actually, there is none of asp.net book cover that part. I don't know why cause I found
win form and web form handle serviced component in different way.

Rating:
Summary: The Worst
Review: Of the 25 computer books I've read this year, this is the worst.
I paid less than $2 for this book and may keep it for reference, but the author has no clue how to teach a subject or how to write about it. I suspect the outline was made by the publisher because the table of contents looks good. Unfortunately, everything between headings is poorly explained.

Rating:
Summary: NO Design
Review: This book has many code examples, but no design. A better name for this book would have been "An Example of Coding ASP.NET Applications". I would like to of seen some design diagrams.