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Microsoft® ASP.NET Programming with Microsoft Visual C#® .NET Version 2003 Step By Step
Teach yourself how to write high-performance Web applications with ASP.NET and Visual C# .NET 2003 one step at a time. This practical, hands-on tutorial expertly guides you through the fundamental tools and technologies, including the common language runtime, Web Forms, XML Web services, and the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1?including new ASP.NET mobile controls. Work at your own pace through the easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on exercises to learn essential techniques. And accelerate your productivity by working with instructive code examples and best practices for ASP.NET Web development with Visual C#. Discover how to: Create a Web application, add a new Web Forms page, and add controls Manage application state and enabl...
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August 10th, 2009
This book was rather hard to follow, and I think it was mostly because the author (G. Andrew Duthie) did not write clearly. For instance, in the debug chapter, he wanted you to view a document called ‘trace.axd’. The author wrote, “Appending trace.axd to the base URL for the application will display the list…” I had to read that sentence about ten times and still did not know what it was asking me to do. The picture that followed helped me to figure it out. This is just one example, and since it was at the end of the book, the one most fresh in my mind.
If you are unfamiliar with ASP, I don’t think the author had you in mind while writing this book. You can’t read more than a couple of pages without it saying, “In classic ASP…” or “…unlike classic ASP, ASP.NET…” or something to those effects. This might confuse somebody who is new to ASP (and ASP.NET) as it provides more information that we really want to know about. At the beginning of the book he explains that ASP.NET is totally different from ASP. I think the author should have left it there and left ASP in the past (where I think it belongs). He did include an appendix on upgrading yor applciations from ASP to ASP.NET, which is good. But continuing to bring up “classic” ASP in the book I think is bad.
This book is divided into four parts. The first part is aimed at the beginner to help somebody new to ASP.NET start programming with the basic programming of VB.NET explained and what makes ASP.NET different from ASP. It also gives you a brief (too brief) introduction to the server components you can add to an ASP.NET web page.
For the final three parts the author really started losing me. It was like he was writing at level 3 and then shot up to level 8 between part 1 and part 2. He would casually write about topics and use terminology not defined earlier in the book. The only chapters I really got information out of was chapter 9 (Accessing and Binding Data, a brief inroduction to ADO.NET) and chapter 14 (Tracing and Debugging ASP.NET applications). Chapter 14 should have come MUCH earlier in the book. However, half of the examples provided did not teach me much, and often times did not work very well.
All in all, I would not recommend this book, and regret buyin it (and paying retail on top of that). There is much better out there.
August 10th, 2009
1.0 out of 5 stars
I was robbed
This is the least useful book I have ever bought. It doesn’t have anything useful and didn’t answer me any questions I had. No wonder it was so cheap. I spent $9.
August 10th, 2009
2.0 out of 5 stars
Someone should have proofread this book
As an ASP developer who has not used Visual Studio, I found the first chapters of this book very insightful. The author does a good job explaining ASP.
August 10th, 2009
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not Really Good for Beginners
I expect that this book will help me learn ASP.NET thru VB.NET. I am very frustrated, it didn’t really help me to easily understand the simple thought of ASP.NET thru VB.NET.
August 10th, 2009
It’s really frustrating to try to learn from a programming book where the author’s code doesn’t work! None of the examples I tried would actually compile without my having to “fix” his code. In most cases that worked out ok, but in some cases I never really knew if my “fix” was a legitimate way to solve the problem or if it might cause problems later. Not a good way to learn!
August 10th, 2009
1.0 out of 5 stars
This book is just bad
I started this book with a background in both VB and classic ASP, with the goal of upgrading my knowledge to ASP.NET.
August 10th, 2009
1.0 out of 5 stars
ok for beginners,,,
This book is okay for beginners…I finished this book in 4 days…nothing for professionals and experts..If you are new to c# ,,,go for it…
August 10th, 2009
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing
My overall impression of the book is that whilst at first glance it is organised into logical chapters (the reason I purchased the book), the contents within the chapters is…
August 10th, 2009
4.0 out of 5 stars
confused
I want to know is the book code is in visualbasi.net or visualbasic6.0 .This should be clarified.The old version of this book is in C#.
August 10th, 2009
5.0 out of 5 stars
So this is where the answers are hidden…
After an hour or so of reading various topics in this book, I finally broke through months of dead-end leads and half-answers.
August 10th, 2009
2.0 out of 5 stars
poorly written. But?
I bought this book from the bookstore to teach my students or i would say to use it as a class text for an intro to ASP.
August 10th, 2009
4.0 out of 5 stars
It is just darn fun!
I have found this title very informative and easy to follow. Not only that, but unlike many other titles on the subject of ASP.NET, C#, and .