Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 (Paperback)

by Chris Hart (Author), John Kauffman (Author), David Sussman (Author), Chris Ullman (Author) "At the end of the twentieth century something unprecedented happened to computers..." (more)
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"...right up there with the best...a well written, comprehensive and useful beginners guide to ASP.NET 2.0...." (www.devcity.net, July 2006)

Product Description

• This updated bestseller gets readers involved immediately with task-oriented examples that can help them build their own sites
• Each chapter is designed to complete a part of the sample Web site, introducing technology topics as required
• Makes extensive use of Microsoft’s new visual ASP.NET development tool, showing readers how to save time and write less code to achieve more results faster

• The book provides examples in Visual Basic - the easiest language for beginning ASP.NET developers to learn

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Product Details

• Paperback: 792 pages
• Publisher: Wrox; illustrated edition edition (November 10, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764588508
• ISBN-13: 978-0764588501
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #429,037 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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50 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tutorial Format Showing How to Build a Site, December 6, 2005

By	John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

With the 2.0 release it seems that ASP.NET has become ready for prime time. I found the earlier versions so verbose and so demanding that everything be done exactly right that I decided to wait for the next release and it's here. The addition of Visual Web Developer (part of Visual Studio 2005) has rounded out the picture. The use of an IDE like this gives a lot of assistance in speeding up the writing of code. It's a lot better than just using something like Notepad.

This book was written with an intent to appeal to people who want to program web applications that can store/display data into/from a database. It will help if you have at least some concept of basic web design with HTML.


This book is in tutorial form. It creates a web site for Wrox United (a mythical football team -- if it's mythical I wonder why not Quiddich). The book claims that you can go see the site at [...] but when I went there the domain name was parked waiting for data. The book takes a tutiorial approach to getting the site up (Maybe they're still working through the tutorial.).

You're going to spend a lot of time learning ASP.NET, I'd recommend you also getting the Wrox book Professional ASP.NET 2.0 in addition to this one. The two books have an entirely different set of authors, and even when they are talking about the same subject, they use different words. Sometimes just reading different words helps you to understand better. The Professional book is more complete and is in reference format.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very cursory coverage of ASP .NET, September 20, 2006

By	Nadim Jubran - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a an ASP developer and an IT Professional, I wanted to get up to speed on ASP .NET 2.0, so I picked up a copy of this book.

I would not recommend it to others, as it is not very well written.
Also, the examples are very GUI-oriented without deviating too much from Wizards and such. If you're more interested in being able to write ASP .NET 2.0 code by hand, and fully understanding how it all works this book is not very helpful.

I also picked up a copy of Professional Asp.Net 2.0 (also from WROX) which, although more advanced, is easier to read and understand.

This book (beginning ASP .NET) is only useful if you want a quick tour of what ASP .NET 2.0 Can do, and not even a full tour at that.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Harder than it should be., February 14, 2006

By	steve sandford (Lawson, N.S.W Australia) - See all my reviews

Although the book is well set out and easy to read you are constantly troubled by the errors in both the code and the dialog. Fortunatly a lot of the errors can be corrected
via the Wrox web site. I found it useful to download the working code for the book and compare it with the text to correct many errors. Should a reader really need to do this? Unlike a previous reviewer I had no trouble viewing the example WroxUnited site.