Message from Dean - May 8th 2007

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Professional ASP.NET 2.0 (Programmer to Programmer)

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Books : Professional ASP.NET 2.0 (Programmer to Programmer)

Rating:

- Wrox Press quality
The Wrox Press books are always well written and good for tutoring yourself in a new technology or enhancing your skills in an existing one.

Rating:

- Good introduction to ASP.NET 2.0
I only had experience with classic ASP and found the book very useful as an introduction to ASP.NET and the .NET class library.

Having all code samples in both Visual Basic and C# makes the book easier to read, and you get a good feel for both languages at the same time.

The negatives: the book is a bit verbose at times, and some of the chapters would have benefited from a bit more depth.

Rating:

- Not for professionals!
What I expect from series "professionals" - is not covering all topics on a level "how to drag a control from toolbox" but a deep discussion(why(background), what(internals) and how(valuable examples)) on the most important and difficult topics of the domain, using "real-life" examples(the examples in the book are useless).
The content lacks a holistic approach(don't like collected stories). Let it be not an all-in-all tutorial but some concept and in-depth material on the most significant topics.(though the publisher won't benefit from this kind of strategy - it's always better to write a dozen of books of one domain than having one may be two volumes covering essentials).

A very(!) good example of book for professionals(asp.net 1.1) - is the book of Fritz Onion - "Essential ASP.NET With Examples in C#".
Overall the book is good(for beginners) or for upgrading from previous version of asp.net(though it could have been more compact then).

Rating:

- Great book, but not for a beginner...
This is an excellent book covering ASP.net 2.0. It is very professional but, not for any beginner. It has the first 2 chapters which pretty much cover the basics but, throughout the rest of the book you need to know what you are doing. It is very detailed but is not really "step-by-step" like 1-2-3...It will walk you through how to do something through reading; so if your not one of those people who dont like to read, I wouldnt fully recommend this book to you. It shows a many screenshots in there so it makes it fairly simple to follow along. The book has almost 1300 pages and is very helpful if you are willing to take out the reading glasses and read a little bit. Overall, its an outstanding book!

Rating:

- Inconsistent quality
About 2/3 of this book is quite well written and easy to follow. Those sections are logical and have good examples. The rest of the book is noticably less well written. Unfortunately the chapters on Authentication and Authorization, especially on the new Login server controls is one of these. I actually came to amazon.com to see if Microsoft Press has anything on the new 2005 server controls. The section of the book that drove me here is the one on customizing the create user server control which simply doesn't work and isn't explained well enough to let me figure out what's wrong. In fact it's barely explained at all.

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