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Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional
Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional aims to give you the skills you need to start building web applications with Microsoft’s next–generation technology as quickly as possible. Whether you’re interested in ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, or the technologies that support them (WPF, WCF, WF, etc.), this book is the starting point that you need. It adopts a “zero to hero” approach that concentrates on achieving practical results you can use in real projects rather than presenting a deep academic treatment that can’t be immediately applied. The aim is to give you, the reader, the knowledge you need to achieve the results you want with the minimum of fuss. When you’ve rea...
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August 13th, 2009
This book is a good start for anyone who wants a quick overview of web technologies as offered by Microsoft. Roughly one-third of the book is dedicated to what would nowadays be called “traditional” web technologies based on ASP.NET. It covers a lot of areas (Web forms, ADO.NET, Web Services, deployment), but never dives very deep. The second part focuses on the Next Generation technologies for Web Development and provides an introduction to WCF, WPF, WWF, Cardspace, Ajax, APS.NET AJAX and Silverlight. Unfortunately, it only addresses Silverlight 1.0 and some interesting new developments such as LINQ and project Astoria are left out completely.
I noticed quite some errors in the code examples in the book (especially in the first part), which I think should have been picked up by the reviewer.
All in all, an interesting read that will certainly make the user want to visit Amazon for some more in-depth books on one or more of the many topics they’ve just become acquainted with.