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Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005
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Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005 |
Author: Matthew MacDonald
Published: 2005-09-12 |
List price: $59.99
Our price: $37.19
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 Code snippets; nothing works or explained; obsolete as of 2007
This books is obsolete as of today (2007). It consists of code snips in C#, but no complete examples. Like another reviewer wrote, nothing works after the first "hello world" sample. If you already know ASP.NET, I suppose this book is somewhat useful, but the book is verbose; why spend a whole chapter (Chap. 2) on Visual Studio 2005? If the purpose of the book was a "how to", showing step by step how to build an ASP.NET project, then I could understand this inclusion, but the book is not a "how to" (other than a trivial example, I didn't find a single complete "how to" in the entire 1300 page book).
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br /Avoid like the plague--a complete waste of money and paper.
 I LOVE this book
Love may be a weird word but if I could take it to bed with me, I would. (JK). This book is one of the best in the market and probably one of the single best ways to actually learn how to code C# with ASP.NET 2.0 the proper way and best ways out there.
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br /We used it for our .com and the entire team felt the say way about this book and another which is Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005: From Novice to Professional.
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br /This book is huge however I feel that one can read it from front to back as a book and really should with this one..it's very beneficial. Reason is, because this book explains stuff so clear, and so realistic to a work environment, that you can learn so much and how to code even better using 2.0 besides just the concepts.
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br /The authors are very good communicators and they cut to the chase but still gives enough good information to really understand each subject, task, or whatever it may be. Their tips are also invaluable as they apply practical real-world experience to the great techniques and tells you what to do and not to do saving you a lot of pain.
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br /Why is this book so big? Well...the .NET framework? It's huge. And the topics here are broad. They cover a lot and they do it in a nice fashion..it's not scattered or confusing.
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br /This book covers exactly what you need for any type of development environment. It doesn't matter if you're working for a mom pop shop, a .com, or any other type of industry or IT development shop, this book is what I would consider a Bible and your team should have this one on hand at all times.
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br /I use this book for a quick reference as well as a great read and training tool for myself when I have time at home to study more about the advanced areas of ASP.NET.
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br /It doesn't matter if you consider yourself coding "advanced" or not. Advanced is a relative term in my opinion and this book will help you even in those tasks that some view not advanced. So point is, get this book if you're coding any level of ASP.NET period, advanced or not advanced. You'll use it, trust me.
Outstanding Book for Those Wishing to Work With ASP.NET and C#
I have been a professional web developer for the past 8 years working for a boutique web development shop. While we have done a decent bit of classic ASP over the years, prior to 2006 we have not jumped aggressively on the .NET bandwagon. The advent of ASP.NET 2.0 and the growing din of client requests has changed that and we are now focusing on .NET development.
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br /Prior to reading this book, I read through the Wrox Visual C# 2005 book to gain a solid footing in C# and .NET in general. I must say that although this book's title begins with "Pro" I found it to be very accessible to a relative newbie. Familiarity with the aforementioned C#, web development and object-oriented principles in general seemed to be adequate as a primer for the lessons in this book.
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br /The authors' ability to convey their obviously strong knowledge of the subject was outstanding - the language was not aimed too high nor was it unnecessarily full of jargon. I found the coverage of database access, rich data controls, session state and caching to be particularly valuable. Another area of great value to ASP.NET 1.1 developers is up-front coverage in each chapter to let them know what has changed in 2.0 from the 1.1 coding model. The breadth of coverage of this book is impressive - I cannot think of a significant topic that was not covered in some way. The authors seemed to focus at length on the most commonly used features of the language - they definitely covered the areas that I know we will be using.
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br /One quibble that I have with the book were the occasional typos that made it past the tech checkers/editors. For example, the authors would introduce a new class name or method in a code block and then refer to that same class/method later in the chapter or in later example code with a slightly different name. While I have become accustomed to this in many tech books, I didn't expect to see as many code errors as I saw in a book of this quality.
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br /Overall, I rate this book very highly and encourage any web developer that is interested in being productive with ASP.NET 2005 to get this book.
 A Behemoth
This book is choc-full of useful material on ASP.net. A monster
br /in his category, it contains way more about asp.net than you probably want to know...can be a good reference for the experienced ASP.net developer who is moving to the 2.0 version, or has already read smaller books and played a bit with the technology.
br /What I find aggravating in this title is the bloated and pompous writing style. This being just another clunky web-technology, who are the authors trying to impress? Also, some of the code examples are incorrect or incomplete, clearly due to the fact that this book has been rushed to publication. More material about design would have made this book better and more balanced. Maybe two volumes would have been less intimidating, but definitely more expensive.
br /Don't try this at home if you have never programmed ASP, you will be crushed.
Probably my last Apress Book
I've just about had it with Apress books such as this one. The text shows the code for the various examples, but often the code is just a snippet, or it's incomplete, or it has errors. And you don't find this out unless you download the book's code from Apress.com. If you're like me and like to work the examples out on your own as you read, the whole process becomes very aggravating. I think I'll switch back to books from O'Reilly. With O'Reilly books, the authors present a complete, working version of the code on the page.
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