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ASP.NET Professional Projects

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I think this is the best book available on ASP.NET on the market.Unlike some of the other books that I have read this book is not a rehash of the .NET documentation. This book brings a lot of clarity to some of the stuff I had been struggling with. The writing style is very clear and crisp. Advanced topics are covered with excellent examples. Again unlike other books, the projects and samples presented are not "toy" samples but real code that you can use. I simply love the GenEditAdd custom control described in this book and I am already using this in my projects. Basically this custom control hooks onto the DataGrid and allows you to edit and insert rows into the grid. It automatically builds an input form by reading the SQL behind the DataGrid. It allows you to have drop-down columns (which is not possible with the DataGrid) and quite a few other features. The book is strong on web services and completely describes a Quicken like accounting application and an inventory application using web services. Visual studio is described in detail and again I like the authors approach of first describing and then looking at each detail under the magnifying glass.

I found this book very informative and helpful at first. I was initially excited at the depth of the training and the real world examples. There was no "Hello World" type of stuff. Unfortunately when it came time to actually practice the training I discovered that the code presented in the book and the on line source, does not work. The syntax is not accurate and it brings into question other information presented in the book. I can only assume that this book and code was based on a very early Beta, and substantial changes were made by Microsoft before the current version of ASP.NET was put on the market.

The writing style is great and his projects are pretty well thought out. However, I have to downgrade my rating of this book because:
1) Appears to be based on an early beta.
2) Most of his coding examples produce poorly structure html. To borrow a phrase from the xhtml/xml world, it is not "well formed." In other words, it doesn't follow accepted w3 standards.
3) His use of CSS is just flat out not right.

I got this book mainly to reuse the GenEditAdd component described in it. However, it seems that the book is totally unsupported now.

The author's web site has not been updated recently. The versions of the source code available from the author and the publisher are different, and at least one of those versions appears to be based on a .NET beta.

The author's contact email address does not seem to be working. Neither does the contact form on his website.

I never write reviews, but this is an ex.Message :-)
The most helpful part of this book is author's business and architectural approaches.
There are some bugs in the code-examples, but!
Even if you're not experienced developer you can find and fix them.
More you can take it as sudoku puzzles.

Only one thing I would consider as a pros - is an examples based on the OLEDB non-SQL provider, which is little bit outdated, for small and medium-size companies.

Book is especially helpful for developers who specialized on the in-house extranet applications.

With the Best Regards to Author!

I cannot say enough good things about this book. The steps are clean and easy to understand. The code is non-cluttered and easy to read. He takes you step by step and does not through any curves. Other books and video training I have reviewed jump in to quickly and try to show-off to much (that leads to confusion). This book does not do that at all. The code is clean and precise and the breakdown is superb. I am hoping the other "Professional Project" titles (C# and ADO.Net) are as well written and designed. I would recommend this book to everyone!!!

The author's ADO chapter was excellent. I found the entire book to be a great source with well thought out examples. I have 6 other ASP.net books, and I highly reccomend this one.

I generally don't take the time to write reviews, but this book is original enough that I want the author to make some money on it. A great book

I appreciate the Author's approach towards explaining the .NET using the Projects and step-by-step approach. He has made .NET a lot easy to understand.

On the whole, a very good book.

~Part I - The ASP.NET Programming Environment
Chapter 1 - Introducing ASP.NET
Chapter 2 - Introducing ASP.NET Web Forms and Controls
Chapter 3 - Using ADO.NET in the .NET Framework
Chapter 4 - Data Binding
Chapter 5 - Input Validation
Chapter 6 - User Controls
Chapter 7 - Custom Controls
Chapter 8 - Business Objectives
Chapter 9 - Working with ASP.NET Web Services
Chapter 10 - ASP.NET Applications
Chapter 11 - Caching
Chapter 12 - Tracing
Chapter 13 - Security

Part II - Projects
~Project 1 - A Personal Finance Manager

Chapter 14 - The Design of the Personal Finance Manager
Chapter 15 - Chart of Accounts
Chapter 16 - Transactions
Chapter 17 - The Trial Balance Report

Project 2 - Web Services
Chapter 18 - Creating a Generic Database Web Service
Chapter 19 - Designing a Navigation System
Chapter 20 - Incorporating Web Services in the Chart
Chapter 21 - Incorporating Web Services in the Chart of Accounts Form
Chapter 22 - Incorporating Web Services in the~~~ Trial Balance

Project 3 - Inventory Management System
Chapter 23 - The Design of the Inventory Management System
Chapter 24 - Inventory Masters
Chapter 25 - Inventory Movements
Chapter 26 - The Inventory Balances Report

Project 4 - The GenEditAdd Control
Chapter 27 - Using the GenAdd Control
Chapter 28 - Extending the GenEditAdd Control

Project 5 - Visual Studio.NET
Chapter 29 - Displaying Database Data Using a Strongly-Typed DataSet
Chapter 30 - Writing CRUD Applications with~~ Visual Studio.NET
Chapter 31 - Creating a Web Service Using Visual Studio.NET

Part III - Appendixes
Appendix A: Installing the Sample Database
Appendix B: HailStormIndex~