Customer Reviews

ASP.NET at Work: Building 10 Enterprise Projects with CDROM

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3 star:		(1)
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This book provides some very interesting examples of ASP.NET in practical, usable scenarios. Unfortunately, as prior posters have noted, the book is plagued with errors. I generally like the book, and hope that the next printing will correct some of the terrible typos. It's a shame that such a good book has such problems. I would recommend ASP.NET: TIPS, TUTORIALS, AND CODE as an alternative to this book if you're uncomfortable with correcting the author's code.

The projects are hosted on the internet at www.10ProjectsWithASP.net and they work well.
But you better make sure the book you buy has a CD in it because you cannot download the code online. That is extremely bogus in my case because I bought a used book at amazon marketplace and the seller said it was with a CD and that was a lie. smoky mtn books if you are curious who it was.
Otherwise the projects are really useful, real world projects.

I've just worked my way through 2/3rds of the book and I must say that I am both impressed and overwhelmed. Impressed by the fact that the author has such a deep grasp of the .NET classes/framework and overwhelmed by how much I am learning. I am planning to go through the book again, from cover to cover after I finish this itteration, just to try to pick up some of the tidbits that I might have missed. I have gone through "cover-to-cover" 5 books on VB.NET and 3 on ASP.NET, and this one ranks at the top of my list for ASP.NET and should be considered for the more advance VB.NET people as well.

I can honestly say that you don't need to be an expert at VB.NET to get some great things from this book, but if you look closely at the VB.NET code, you will pick up a ton of useful (real-world) information.

might be 4 stars if the proper code updates were placed on the website.

I considered many books before choosing this one because it had an approach which fit the way that I learn.
I'll be reviewing some of the projects many times to understand the method behind the design of the projects.
Unfortunately, some of the projects were simply unfinished, or had problems that would prevent them from working correctly.
It's still worth it -- there's a lot here.

This book is outstanding! I've learned almost as much from it as from Microsoft's own "IBuySpy" demo site. Probably the thing I like most about it was that it is written correctly, using code-behind pages and OO programming principles, not just slopped out as an example. Just being able to use the code as-is without having to translate to "real world" standards is a real relief.

I've got probably a dozen ASP.NET books, and this is the one (along with SAM's ASP.NET Unleashed) that stays by my side.

Finally a well-written book with good examples on ASP.Net. Eric Smith's applications are very good and they are challenging from the beginning. (The first chapter is no Hello-World, but rather an address book). Well edited and error-free. A great way to expose yourself to the normative techniques in ASP.Net design.

First of all, the book is full of errors. I can tell right from Project1. No need to read further.

Second of all, the code is poorly written.
For example, on Project1, if you move your mouse over Update and Delete hyperlinks on the page that displays all the contacts, you would see the actual IDs that you created in your database at the bottom along with the pages that willt ake you to if you click the links . This will allow the hackers to target easily to your webpage and database. The author should get more professional skills before he decides to write a book. Waste of my money and time.

...but becomes a big disapointment until you try to run the samples.
I think the book is based on beta 2. No problem about that but why don't they put an update on a website.

There is some problem with the book - the code provided from the CD does not match the book. The bigger issue is that the viewpeople.aspx (project 02) does NOT display all records from the database, one record will be missed, if you have one record in the table, it will display nothing. Even I tried to used the AtWorkUtilities dll from the CD. It would be great if some one can provide solutions to the problem of the project 02.