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Summary: ASP.NET for Rocket Scientist's
Comment: Okay I should read reviews more often! I picked up this book as a couple of the other MS Press books I have have been great. This book says you don't need to know anything about ASP.NET. Well after 5 chapters of painful reading and examples I feel like my brain is about ready to leak out of my ears. Considering I have 9 years of classic ASP/PHP development experience I find this rather amusing.
If your going to pick up this book you should have good fundamental understanding of C# 2.0 because this book isn't going to teach you. You will also need to get hold of Visual Studio 2005. You can try with MS Visual Web Developer Express but I fear you'll be wasting your time.
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Summary: I've read much better
Comment: I'm relatively new to ASP.NET, and I got this book because it's used for a class I'm taking in ASP and ColdFusion right now.
I just finished reading chapter five, and I have to say I'm pretty disappointed. It's a shame that the book is called "Step by Step", because that term really couldn't be further from the truth when it comes to this book (in my opinion at least). Chapter five was composite controls, which isn't really hard but a pretty important intermediate concept. Not only is it in the first half of the book, but the entire chapter just felt rushed. The book didn't even provide all the code needed to make the project work (for example, I had to figure out the code for a button to process a request for a palindrome checker. It ended up not being too hard, but I have school assignments to frustrate me, I don't need a learning resource to do the that for me.) The code from the book also had several errors that turned up problems in Visual Studio which I also had to spend a good 15-20 extra minutes fixing.
Granted, I'm only on chapter five so far but I don't feel as though I've learned nearly as much from this book as I have in others. If you're a beginner I'd try looking elsewhere.
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Summary: Great Books
Comment: Once again, you guys have impressed me with your service. I just wished I would have used you guys a lot sooner in my educational career.
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Summary: good introduction to ASP.NET
Comment: I found this book to be an excellent introduction to ASP.NET. Some reviewers have stated that the chapters at the beginning of the book are too complex. This material is, however, fundamental to developing the ability to program ASP.NET pages effectively.
The step-by-step format provides a good introduction to the major aspects of ASP.NET along with significant practice in working with Visual Web Developer, pages, and web controls. An extended example showing how all of the pieces fit together would have been nice but there are other books that serve this purpose quite well.
I deducted a star, however, because some of the examples do not work as they are written in the book (they might have been fixed on the CD but I lost mine so I am not sure). This was frustrating but I still found the book to be a valuable introduction.
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Summary: This book is great!!!
Comment: The book contains many descriptions about the new ASP.NET 2.0 and compares to older versions of asp.net and asp. It describes everything step by step so that it is easy to follow examples and learn ASP.NET 2.0 framework. It is great for begginers and intermediate users.
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