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Summary: Excellent
Comment: The book is in perfect conditions, and the book offers the best guidance and technique assistance for developing and understanding ASP.NET applications. The best choice.
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Summary: Solid Book For Advanced .NET Programmers
Comment: I wouldn't recomend this to a beginner programmer, but if you need to get it together on .NET 2.0 - 3.5 then this book is for you. I specifically got it to catch up with the latest .NET functionality for my upcoming programing contracts and it's been very useful.
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Summary: Seems like a 2.0 Copy and Paste
Comment: Im never a big fan of the "Professional" series of books because I tend to learn better from step-by-step tutorials with a finished product at the end. the "Problem Design Solution" series from wrox tend to be the most useful to me. These types of books I often feel like I can get the same information, cheaper, from MSDN. I knew that when I got the book but its nice as a desk reference. My biggest issue with this book is that it seemed like it was a 2.0 copy and paste.... there is a lot of reference to 2.0 in the text and it often left me wondering what was specifically new in 3.5.
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Summary: Better than the average Wrox book, but still not great
Comment: In the past, I've disliked Wrox books because of their approach of having multiple authors cover the same topics without enough editing to make it one cohesive piece. While this book is better than Wrox books I have read in the past, it still suffers many of the same pitfalls. In areas, the book is quite repetitive. Also, in a few spots the authors mention topics before they have been properly introduced, with parentheticals such as "we'll cover this in chapter x." This lack of cohesive organization and planning is annoying.
Besides having qualms with the layout of the book, I don't think this book deserves "professional" in the title. Most "professional" books I read from other publishers do suit a professional developer, while this one falls short. It covers little more than an overview of all the features, but provides very little "best practice" advice beyond the absolute basics. With this book, you may learn to write applications in ASP.NET but you won't necessarily learn to do it well.
If you are new to ASP.NET, this book may be a decent place to start, but if you've been using .NET for years, as I have, 90% of this book covers what you already know and it may try your patience to find that 10% that's new to you.
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Summary: Comprehensive, interesting and inventive
Comment: I've been developing fairly basic ASP.NET sites for a few years now, but knew i had a lot to learn. This book was perfect for the task!
It's comprehensive, thorough and very easy to follow. You can pick it up at just about any place in the book and follow through without getting lost with what's already been covered that you haven't seen yet - most of the time, any previously covered topics are covered again to a limited extent, to be complete.
The author comes across as excited about the technology, which appealed to me, and I'm now confident to step up to more complex ASP.NET sites with what I've learnt from the book.
Brilliant!
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