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Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition
The most up–to–date and comprehensive introductory ASP.NET book you’ll find on any shelf, Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008 guides you through Microsoft’s latest technology for building dynamic web sites. This book will enable you to build dynamic web pages on the fly, and it assumes only the most basic knowledge of C#. The book provides exhaustive coverage of ASP.NET, guiding you from your first steps right up to the most advanced techniques, such as querying databases from within a web page and tuning your site for optimal performance. Within these pages, you’ll find tips for “best practices” and comprehensive discussions of key database and XML principles you need to know in order to be effective with ASP.NET....
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August 4th, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good reading material
If there is such a comprehensive book in the J2EE world, J2EE will be less painful.
Even though I prefer J2EE over .
August 4th, 2009
I have purchased (what feels like) hundreds of computer related books from Amazon.com (including other ASP.NET books), and this is the first one that I have ever felt the need to comment on.
This is just a great book, in my opinion! I found the book to be very easy to read, and logical to follow – Matthew MacDonald’s writing style is very effective in communicating technical information in a way that made it easy for me to understand.
I’ve been developing Windows client applications (VB/C#) for close to 10 years, and have “played around” with ASP.NET 2.0. I knew how to make some basic web apps work, but didn’t really understand what was going on underneath the covers. I had a lot of questions that were answered and now have a lot more confidence going forward with creating ASP.NET apps.
As I mentioned, I had purchased ASP.NET books by different authors (for 1.1 and 2.0). Maybe I never gave those books a chance, but this is by far the best that I have come across.
August 4th, 2009
2.0 out of 5 stars
If you know this stuff, you don’t need it, if you don’t, it doesn’t help
The book assumes you are already a VB or other higher-level language programmer just being retooled and that you are ignorant of HTML.
August 4th, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars
Worth the money
The book teaches you exactly what it says on the cover. Not only has this book taught me the beginning of Asp.net but it helped me get a job a year later.
August 4th, 2009
ASP.NET 3.5 is the latest version of the .NET Framework from Microsoft. C# is the defacto standard programming language for Microsoft programmers. Although there are more VB.NET programmers out there, C# is considered the more “professional” language and hence forth there are more job opportunities for C# programmers.
This book is huge (800+ pages) and really covers everything you need to know about C# and ASP.NET 3.5. Of course there maybe a few database topics it did not go into detail as much, but for the money it can’t be beat. The author (Mathew MacDonald) really explained all the topics very well and assumed no prior knowledge of .NET knowledge. You really can be a `novice’ and learn a lot from this book.
The great thing about the .NET framework from Microsoft now, is that there are so many free programs to learn before you invest any money (apart from the book of course).
The author explains the C# language first (great choice and wish more authors did it that way), in the first few chapters before getting into web forms and ASP.NET objects. C# is a professional language and definitely should be learned first before getting into anything else.
Starting at chapter 5, the author starts to explain what a web form is and how ASP.NET works. Covering everything from how sever and web controls work, to the web.config customizations, WAT, web control classes, etc. The following chapter focuses in detail about web controls (what ASP.NET is really all about) and probably is the meatiest of all the chapters. The chapter 7 goes into state management which is a very important and goes hand-in-hand with how web controls work.
Error handling (chaper
and deployment (chapter 9) is next on topics covered and then in the next sections of the book the author goes back into web controls with lots of examples of using the validation controls and master pages. Master Pages have grown a lot in this version and it is the core of how you will design you own ASP.NET 3.5 web site. There are 3 chapters dedicated to web site design and development and I have never seen a book with so much detail on the subject. Well done!
The rest of the book goes into database topics such as SQL, ADO.NET, Data Bindings, etc. I can’t describe how impressed I am with how many topics are covered in this book and how well they are covered. You really only need this book for 80-90% of you ASP.NET development work.
A great buy!!!
August 4th, 2009
I don’t read many 900 page books cover to cover.. It’s an accomplishment for both finishing this tome, and for the author of this great read.
The first sections gets you up to speed on C# quickly.. You should know some programming before diving in. Then each area of ASP.NET is covered at a healthy pace. Useful samples, and explanations and recommendations throughout. He first covers the manual ways of doing things, then goes into the slightly narrower scope of productivity shortcuts that turn days of development into hours. He’s given me a new respect for it.
There are so many books on each tech subject, it’s hard to know where to go. You find a few authors you like, and read their books. I’ll pick up another one of his books soon.
Great read, highly recommended.
August 4th, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book, truly took me from novice to well, aspiring professional
It’s been 10 years since I last programmed, so this book was a perfect level of introduction to C# without getting so basic as to teach all the OO concepts etc, then on to the…
August 4th, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book
Simply a *GREAT* book if you have some experience with C# but are new to ASP.NET!!!!
August 4th, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars
This 900-page monster is concise!
I wish all my tech books were this good. Where applicable, I’m going to buy everything this author has written.
August 4th, 2009
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good but not a one stop book
Nothing wrong with this book but it requires some previous coding background (I am proficient in C#) and it will not give you every answer.
August 5th, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another great book from this author.
The author excels in giving a very deep discussion on nearly all the component parts of ASP.NET 3.5, together with a number of code samples for each chapter that serve to…
August 5th, 2009
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good start for a novice ASP.NET developer
This book will teach you what you need to know in order to start developing full fledged ASP.NET applications.
August 5th, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent
If you understand basic OOP concepts, this is the book to get. Get ASP.NET in less than a week!