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Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX (Programmer to Programmer)

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I bought this book based on a long, positive history with WROX products. I've got a whole shelf full of these volumes on various topics and they've historically been the best in the business.

Not so with this volume. These guys are obviously uberdorks who got an A in Computer Science and a C- in Language Arts. The writing is scattered, clunky, and generally subpar, making it very difficult to decipher portions of the book - let alone learn any programming disciplines from it. (In that regard, the editor(s) and proofreader of the volume also deserved to be flogged with a wet noodle.)

I expect a far more professional approach and delivery than this book provides. I'll struggle through it and learn the material, but it shouldn't be this difficult... The time of technical training manuals being written by eggheads with no affinity for interpersonal communication passed twenty years ago. Shame on WROX for releasing this volume in such disarray.

Here's my beefs:

book = C#, not VB
The C# examples work.

The shopping cart download was full of CRCs.

I ended up coding in VB for the first couple of chapters, then read the rest as only so much time.

synopsis > 2 little info, repetitive, no VB, didn't learn much