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Expert ASP.NET 2.0 Advanced Application Design (Expert's Voice in .NET)

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This book really just talks a bit about how to access data via ASP.Net, a bit about the ins and outs of the internals of asp.net and some talk about the middle tier.

This book does not discuss anything about advanced application design. e.g. where should you store business logic? How do you design an asp.net application?

There are no "design" questions answered. Its really just a discussion of some topics in asp.net. I read the book over 1 week and have taken nothing from it. I have 4 years experience in systems development with 2 years in .Net. A book titled "Expert..Advanced Application Design" should be just that.....an expert discussion of advanced application design!!!

The title of this book includes Advanced Application Design and ASP.NET as a distributed architecture. There are few pages that cover it in summary fashion. The book really should be titled An intermediate overview of .net programming. Out of the many books I own and have read on asp/asp.net/design (>100) etc. This is by far the most disappointing.

Examples of the differences between DataAdapters and DataReaders and when to use each do not belong in a book with this title. The majority of the information is beginning to intermediate at best and even that is not covered to a better extent than what I can find on any web site on .net.

I thought maybe I could glean some info from the SQL service data broker, but as often happens the authors can't even stay focused on the titles of their chapters. This chapter digresses into talk of XPATH and XQUERY. That and many other topics are better for free on the msdn web site.

I purchased based upon the title. Amazon should not sell this book under the current title and I'd like a refund of my money. IF zero stars were an option that's what I would give it.

This book is about how to configure your ASP.NET code in configuration page to utilize the system resource such as create connection string, disconnect, and clean up the connection resource after using it. It shows the inpact on your server when you did not use the resource properly--server spike up. The title of this book is misleading if you are looking for coding examples. It covered materials like when to use .Net Remote, COM+, Connection Pooling, and Web Services. This book should be titled as "Adanced Application Patterns and Resource Management". This book has no advanced application samples for those application developers and it is more for Senior Programmers/team leads who are responsible for server and system architects. This book is "good to have" but "not must have" book. I gave it a 3 stars because of its title does not match its contents. I hope this rating help you to find a book better suit for what you needed.

Being in the industry for 13+ years, and having to learn new technologies on a constant basis, I read this book this fall and wanted to comment after seeing the last review.
If the reviewer really "has taken nothing" from this book, then he already knew quite a lot about .NET 2.0, including; enhancements to the request process pipeline, the page object and viewstate, new features of Web Services, COM+, Windows Communication Foundation, and SQL Server 2005 (to name a few!).
This book is about application design. It explains the different technologies available for a 2.0 app and what situations you'd want to use them in. It then shows you how with a lot of good working code.
I've been working with 2.0 since October and I've been very glad I read this book first. Chapter eight on hosts and communication really cleared up a lot of confusion I had around how and when of using Remoting, COM+, and Web Services. The Web Service and WCF chapters left me feeling that I finally "get" where Microsoft is headed with the whole SOA thing. Also, this book is short enough to actually get it all read. Well worth it, and very valuable.

The main reason that I bought this book for, was what is on the book title: "ASP.NET Advanced Application Design". Unfortunately, this book merely scratches the surface of the application design. In fact a good title would be "ASP.NET 2.0 Best practices" or "ASP.NET 2.0 New features". Now, in case you are looking for such a book, this is a good book. It explains thoroughly every item and the examples are really good. So buy it if you need another opinion for specific ASP.NET topics but do not expect to see a detailed Application Design plan.

The book is not about how to program asp.net applications. It is about how to architect asp.net applications. There are many books dealing with the former topic, but there are very few that are worth reading about related to the latter. If you already know the ins-and-outs of programming with asp.net but want to learn how to create an architecturally-sound, scalable, and maintaiable solutions, this book is your best bet.

This book is a good introduction to ASP.NET 2.0, it will not suffice to anyone requiring details.
It gives an introduction to architecture, and some introduction to the WCF (Windows COmmunication Foundation), but not nearly enough.
I would wait until more literature comes out on .NET 3.0 before purchasing a book of this type.
The word "Expert" in the cover is a bit misleading...


Best regards,

This is probably the best book on ASP.NET application design ever written. If you do any ASP.NET 2.0 development in your enterprise, then this book is your best friend. It's small, concise, and packed with to-the-point information.

The book is split into three parts which map to the 3-tiers of 3-tier architecture: presentation, logic, and data. The presentation section covers the internals of ASP.NET 2.0, the logic section covers security, Web services, Enterprise Services, WCF and other topics, and the data section covers many data-related topics including the new .NET 2.0 provider models.

This book is a must have for anyone who either wants to be a master or thinks they already are. For those in the latter group: prepare to be humbled.

I found these blog entries helpful when deciding to purchase this book:

http://davidhayden.com/blog/dave/archive/2005/12/21/2637.aspx
http://wagnerblog.com/index.php?p=519

I'm still working my way though it, but am already very impressed. This book has an unusual combination of "high level" concepts explained with solid code examples. And at 480 pages there's no room for fluff. Good stuff.