Beginning Object-Oriented ASP.NET 2.0 with VB .NET: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional) (Paperback)

by Brian Myers (Author)
Key Phrases: page events, team system, class design process, Public Function, Solution Explorer, Object Browser (more...)

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Product Description
<p><i>Beginning Object-Oriented ASP.NET 2.0 with VB .NET</i> covers all of the basics, from definition to inheritance. This book even includes a chapter on Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, enabling you to create ASP.NET 2.0 applications. Also included are chapters on creating web forms, web controls, and web services. Code samples illustrate the usage of each concept.</p>

<p>If you have a background in procedural programming, this book will teach you what a class is, how it relates to an object, and how to model real-world data into a class. You will be able to create a class in VB .NET, add properties and methods, and use that class in a simple ASP.NET web application created with VB .NET.</p>

About the Author
Brian Myers is a Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Certified Application Developer for .NET. He is currently a software engineer and database administrator.

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Apress (September 19, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590595386
• ISBN-13: 978-1590595381
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #861,756 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars if by "novice" you mean "the lobotomized" and by "professional" you mean "won't have to ride the short bus next year", May 18, 2006

By	Daniel W. Miller (Dallas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Don't get this book if you have _any_ experience in programming or have little patience for repetition or word count padding. I suffered through the whole thing just so I could feel justified in writing this review.

"HTML elements are not available to the server, because they are text that is passed through to the browser." O.M.G. How did I go all this time without realizing that HTML is text that is "passed through" to the browser?! Sentences like this one are commonplace: "The HTML section of the Toolbox will have a title of HTML." Ya think? Or this jem: "The last category of properties is Misc. This category will list any properties that did not fit into the other categories." The whole book is like this. It's incredible. I didn't pad my jr. high english papers like this.

Finally, there are some mistakes in the references to the samples -- having you name a class something, then referring to that class with a different name later. This type of errata is common in tech books, but with something this short and brutally simple-minded, you would have thought the tech editor would have caught these mistakes. Maybe he fell asleep reading it as many times as I did.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sketchy, December 3, 2005

By	Scott Dovey (Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is far too short. Given its small size, its a shame the author pads it out so much with gratuitous screen shots and repetitive coding example, while major OOP concepts (such as implementing interfaces) are left out on the grounds that they are "outside the scope of the book". This book needs far more scope.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not bad, December 19, 2005

By	M. Aleksanian (Montreal, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

When this book says it's from Novice to Pro, I expected some advanced notions. It covers many topics, but very briefly. It is not a bad book, and is a very good read for someone who needs to get basic introduction and coverage on .Net topics. It covers basic Objects and Classes designs, encapsulation, inheritance, namespaces, webforms and web services. I reckon the price I paid (CAN $37 ) is way too high for this book, but I gave it to some people who needed an introduction for ASP w/.Net and they found it useful. Basically, if you need to do some advanced projects forget this, on the other hand if you need to learn some simple concepts go for it, but wait for the price to drop.