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Mastering Web Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
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Mastering Web Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 |
Author: John Paul Mueller
Published: 2005-12-05 |
List price: $49.99
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Visual Studio
I was very satisfied at the scope and ease of understanding of this book
 A very poorly written book
I tried using this book to find out a specific item of information and it contained no examples on something that is a basic part of building web pages. Finally found the answer (and even with a good explanation!) in a dummies book. This book is only good to feed a fire!
Belying!
I also wonder why the author has named the book "Web Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005" although it just covers the Visual Web Developer, and just a very shor part is about VS 2005. I wanted to know how to put the application on the production server, especially how to transfer the database through VS to the server, but it's not possible to find even a small hint there. I am disappointed and sorry about wasting my time and mony for this book and find the author irresponsible for the wrong entitling his book and spoofing the people.
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 Very little about VS 2005!
I downloaded the eBook and within a couple of minutes realised that it only had one Chapter specifically abour VS 2005. As the first para in Chapter 1 point out:
br /"When you installed Visual Studio .NET 2005, you might have been surprised to find a bonus-Visual
br /Web Developer. This new product fills a gap in the Visual Studio product line and is Microsoft's recognition
br /that Web development has become a major part of the application market." So the book is about Visual Web Developer and should have been entitled as such.
br /There is a chapter later in the book about migrating your VS 2003 projects and the final chapter ( Chapter 25! ) has the following "This chapter addresses the code movement process from a little project to big project perspective.
br /It assumes that you've experimented with Visual Web Developer Express and now need the full capabilities
br /that Visual Studio can provide." Too little too late... Unless you want to find out about Visual Web Developer, buy something else.
 Confusion about what product this book is about!
I purchased this book because I suddenly discovered that the personal ecommerce website that I had hoped to do in Macromedia Studio 8 couldn't be done because Macromedia Studio 8 doesn't support ASP.NET 2.0 - and ASP.NET 2.0 has some amazing new functionality that I won't give up to use Macromedia. So I decided I needed to use Visual Studio 2005. I played with Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition for a couple of weeks until Visual Studio 2005 Professional finally arrived. I was very impressed with VWD 2005 Express Edition but it lacks some features that you need for a full function commercial site. I am writing this review before I have gone into this book in sufficient detail to be able to answer my own questions because I feel that other potential buyers should be aware of the issues that I feel need to be resolved.
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br /I saw this book and bought it here on Amazon because it seemed that it might have some valuable content on Visual Studio 2005 - and there is very little information available about VS 2005 at this moment except the Microsoft literature. Now I am confused about the book because I really can't determine what product the author was using when he wrote the book. The book is about a product called Microsoft Visual Web Developer - not about either Visual Studio 2005 Professional or Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. It appears that there is valuable content here and although the product he was using was probably pretty close to Visual Studio 2005 Professional the author definitely writes about functionality that I cannot yet find in Visual Studio 2005 Professional. My issue is that I really would like to know up front what functionality that the book covers is not included in VS 2005. Of course it's possible that I will find a hidden configuration option in VS 2005 that will suddenly turn it into Visual Web Developer but in one place in the book the author says that he is writing a book on Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition - but I can't find reference to it anywhere. My guess is that he was writing on an early beta of VS 2005 but that a number of changes have occurred between when he wrote and what is being shipped. I am an optimistic and will give the book 4 stars now because of what appears to be valuable content, but that rating could go up to 5 stars or down to 2 stars depending on how close the material is to what I need to understand Visual Studio 2005 Professional. Also I was bothered by the fact that within 15 minutes after opening the book the binding began to fall apart.
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br /I have contacted the author to try and answer this question but as of the writing of this review have not gotten back a response.
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