Customer Reviews

Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005

5 star:		(15)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This is problably the first 2.0-specific book to hit store shelves. I'm currently building with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. AFAIK this build has the final major changes. The book seems to be written for the final VS release. In ohter words, I have not found any outdated examples yet in my reading.

I got this book last week and I'm very pleased with it. I jumped ahead straight to the Membership and Profile sections. There are *several* chapters on this! I'm very impressed so far with their teaching abilities and I appreciate the fact that they give full examples. First the authors cover how to use ASP.NET 2.0's shrinkwrapped solution. Then they give detailed information on how to implement your own custom providers for Memebership and Roles. This is fantastic because at the time of this review, I had not found any complete examples on how to do this.

So far this book hs a great reference and help to me. It's over 1,000 pages but nothing of what I've seen appears to be "fluff". Nice job! I would definitely recommend this ASP.NET/C# programmers. I think beginners can follow it and advanced users will like the solid 2.0 coverage.

I'm reading this one cover-to-cover. I'm only on chapter 9, but I have to respond to the reviewer who found chapter 3 on web forms to be incomplete. ASP.NET 2 is not a complete change from ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 1.0, but rather a few changes and a lot of enhancements. As someone who's been using ASP.NET for a couple of years, I'm finding this book extremely helpful, not only as an introduction to ASP.NET 2.0, but also as a review of ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 1.0. I'm not sure what I would think of the book if I didn't already have some experience, but it seems like a complete review of ASP.NET to me. The authors have done an outstanding job. Every time a question is generated in my mind, the author answers it in the next paragraph. This book is thorough. I'm even updating some of my 1.1 code while I'm reading it. I would highly recommend this book if you already have some experience with ASP.NET 1.1 or ASP.NET 1.0.

I have been a professional web developer for the past 8 years working for a boutique web development shop. While we have done a decent bit of classic ASP over the years, prior to 2006 we have not jumped aggressively on the .NET bandwagon. The advent of ASP.NET 2.0 and the growing din of client requests has changed that and we are now focusing on .NET development.

Prior to reading this book, I read through the Wrox Visual C# 2005 book to gain a solid footing in C# and .NET in general. I must say that although this book's title begins with "Pro" I found it to be very accessible to a relative newbie. Familiarity with the aforementioned C#, web development and object-oriented principles in general seemed to be adequate as a primer for the lessons in this book.

The authors' ability to convey their obviously strong knowledge of the subject was outstanding - the language was not aimed too high nor was it unnecessarily full of jargon. I found the coverage of database access, rich data controls, session state and caching to be particularly valuable. Another area of great value to ASP.NET 1.1 developers is up-front coverage in each chapter to let them know what has changed in 2.0 from the 1.1 coding model. The breadth of coverage of this book is impressive - I cannot think of a significant topic that was not covered in some way. The authors seemed to focus at length on the most commonly used features of the language - they definitely covered the areas that I know we will be using.

One quibble that I have with the book were the occasional typos that made it past the tech checkers/editors. For example, the authors would introduce a new class name or method in a code block and then refer to that same class/method later in the chapter or in later example code with a slightly different name. While I have become accustomed to this in many tech books, I didn't expect to see as many code errors as I saw in a book of this quality.

Overall, I rate this book very highly and encourage any web developer that is interested in being productive with ASP.NET 2005 to get this book.

I haven't read any other ASP.NET 2.0 books but don't feel I need to after this one. It's well organized and has a great overview of just about every ASP.NET subject you can imagine. As a bonus, I was pleased to find many good code examples and tips that I'm looking forward to using on my projects. Some examples include rollover image user controls, protecting pdf documents in your web directory, tracing soap messages and a nice summary of lifecycles for pages, controls and data binding. It's not exhaustive, but at 1200 pages, it certainly covers more than 90% of what you'd ever need to know. Overall, a great intro and bookshelf reference for the experienced .NET developer.

The books I read on ASP.NET 1.0/1.1 seemed like the authors knew just a bit more than I did from playing around with Visual Studio and going to a couple Microsoft conferences. There were so many holes in those books that I found myself figuring out any solution beyond the basics on my own. Now the books are becoming very useful because you can tell the authors are seasoned in Asp.net and have a lot more knowledge on the subject. This book has, so far, answered every question I have had about Asp.net 2.0 and even ones I didn't know I had! I haven't even finished it yet, and it has been more than worth its weight in gold from what I've learned in the 7 chapters I've read so far. Great job!!

I am a seasoned programmer of 25 years; however, I had never programmed an ASP.NET application. After reading no less than 6 books, I still couldn't find the "WHY" and relevance for most of the concepts surrounding ASP.NET. This book hit the mark! I was able to purchase this book on a Friday.....read all weakend....start coding Monday morning.....complete my first robust application and deploy in 3 weeks.

Though this book isn't for beginners (They assume a basic knowledge of OOP and relational database concepts) it is is the clearest text on the subject that I have encountered.

I gave it four stars because I felt that they could have furnish slightly better and relevant example code....but that is generally the case for most books. The only other criticism is that there is far too much emphasis on data binding. Though it is an excellant feature, it does not solve every problem. Other than that THANKS to the authors. I highly recommend this book.

I'm an experienced programmer in other languages and an intermediate C# developer. I found the book excellent as I usually know what I need but struggle with syntax and examples. I have many reference books for various topics but I found this one to be one of the best in terms of breadth of topics, ease in locating them, and clarity of the explanations.

Where I tend to skim some of the others, this one is worth reading in its' entirety.

I am experienced with classic ASP and ASP.NET 1.1. When ASP.NET 2.0 became available I was looking for an efficient way to update my knowledge to the new technology. I watched several MSDN webcasts to obtain a big picture understanding of the technology. From there, I began looking for detailed, hand-on tools to assist in my education of the technology. I found MSDN hands-on labs assisted with beginner level topics. I went through several books until I found this one. The book hits the spot.

This book explains both ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0; however it always highlights the changes and new concepts in version 2.0. It doesn't hang on to easy and trivial stuff; moreover, it emphasizes best practices and important concepts. It also explains the history and evolution of the techniques or concepts when it is necessary.

This book definitely is not a copy and paste from MSDN. The way that authors communicate concepts shows that they are experienced in publishing educative materials.

The nice thing that this book provides for experienced ASP.NET 1.1 developer is that it informs you when it is explaining old ASP.NET 1.1 materials. Therefore you can jump to the next chapter and don't waste time. At the same time, the book can be a complete reference handbook on your desk.

The book also includes a free searchable pdf eBook available for download.

I definitely recommend this book to experienced .NET developers with or without ASP.NET experience.

Five stars for sure.

I found this book very useful and informative.
I have programming for 15 years but was a complete novice in ASP.Net. It presents the information in a straightforward manner I liked. It has been both a good guide to getting started and as a reference to many topics as I have been working. I found the information in chapter 5 to be helpful in making the switch from an application developer to a web seveloper.

Yeap! This is what I was looking for.
This book is really meant for professionals which already have a lot of experience with programming .NET and not only. Excellent explanations, good writing style and easy reading. Authors give programming tips and tricks for real world scenarios. Even though this is not a book for beginners I recommend this book to everyone that is really into .NET programming. This book is worth keeping in your shelf. It's a must have book.