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ASP.NET 2.0: Your visual blueprint for developing Web applications

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I bought this book to teach myself .NET and ASP. The whole book is nothing but a sequence of exercises, which is an interesting and possibly effective approach. 99.9% of the code you are given to enter in is presented in the images.

From the very first exercise, I have found frequent careless and typographical errors, such as menu sequences that don't exist or instructions that leave out a critical step. Furthermore, the code you are to enter is very small and hard to read. It is only given within images, and it varies from hard to read to virtually impossible to read. I get the impression that the author knows the subject well, but this book is written as though he was given impossible deadlines to meet, and the publisher doesn't seem to have proofread the manuscript, because it contains continuous errors. I think that the author is capable of producing a better product, and I wouldn't hesitate to look at another book of his by a different publisher, but I must regretfully recommend that people seeking to learn this subject avoid this particular book.