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  • Paperback: 1004 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 2 edition (19 Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0596004877
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596004873
  • Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 17.2 x 3.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Chunky and detailed, Programming ASP.NET is a hands-on guide to Microsoft's Web development technology. It is a huge subject, and at over 900 pages, this is longer than most O'Reilly titles. With support for Web services as well as dynamic Web sites, ASP.NET is the most impressive part of Microsoft's .NET Framework, but developers familiar with the old Active Server Pages have much to learn. This title begins at the beginning with "Hello World," but goes well beyond the basics by providing in-depth examples and explanations. There is some coverage of Visual Studio .NET, but most of the content is equally applicable to those who prefer to use straight code editors. There are extensive code examples, almost too many, with most given in both Visual Basic and C#. Some of the code is repetitive, and at some points shorter, more specific examples would help the book's flow and reduce its bulk.

The early chapters introduce the ASP .NET architecture and cover the event model, the different control types, debugging and the essentials of Web Forms. The chapters that follow tackle database development, including validation, data binding, programming ADO .NET and managing transactional data updates. This accounts for two-thirds of the book. The last third tackles Web services both as client and server, caching and performance optimisation, security, and application deployment. A bug database is used throughout as an example application.

Overall the authors do a great job of covering ASP .NET essentials, somewhat slanted towards database applications. The book has a real-world feel to it and does not skim over problem areas. It is nicely written, and working through the examples is a good way both to learn ASP .NET, and to get a feel for what it can do. --Tim Anderson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"But there's still a need for a good book on the subject. There are several out there, but Programming ASP.NET by O'Reilly is particularly excellent. One measure I use to decide whether I'll buy a book is if it will solve a problem for me. By using this metric, the book would pay for itself several times over." - Mark Newton, PC Pro, November 2002 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not up to usual O'Reilly standards, 22 Mar 2003
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As an ASP/VB programmer looking to update I didn't find this book very useful. I usually find O'Reilly books to be nothing less than excellent, so this was a big let down.

The book is heavily padded with project code - not just snippets that illustrate a point, but multi-page blocks of the stuff. In one example given, the code was over 8 pages. All with no CD :(

Would have been better at half the length, with much more carefully chosen examples.

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21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, but, 16 April 2002
This review is from: Programming ASP.NET (Paperback)
Allthough I found this book informative, I thought it could have been better.
The style was a bit scrappy and it felt like more than one person had authored it - for a minor example, the first half preferred c# and the second half preferred VB.
On that score, I did not like having both languages in the body of hte book. Do 2 books or relagate one language to the back. It just meant more pages to flick through and added little value.
This is a cookery book sort of book. it gives you recipies for doing certain things but you don't necessarily understand why you've done something. For example, the 'ControlBuilder' class is thrown in to one of the examples (build a custom Server Side Control) but there is NO indication of what it does or why it was there.
Having said that the book is written OK and I certainly feel better able to tackle my ASP.NET project now than before.
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3.0 out of 5 stars http://aspnetbookreviews.blogspot.com/, 7 Oct 2005
This book is ideal for someone whom has no experience with NT technologies (bar as Windows user). It touches on all of the ASP.NET technologies namely, IIS, SQL Server, ADO.NET, Stored Procedures and ASP.NET with pages dedicated to the fundamentals of each.

The book utilises a small(ish) scale "Bug Tracking" application to spoon feed the use of methods in a practical sense for the beginner. There is a lot of beneficial code and each chapter builds on the existing examples to give the reader a complete picture of a full project life cycle, from creating a blank project in VS.NET all the way to deploying it in a production SQL Server environment.

The 2nd Edition of this book is marketed with developing on Visual Studio .NET IDE which speeds up the learning curve to become industry ready. The down side is that you tend not to learn the ins and outs of .NET as VS.NET handles monotonous tasks for you.

Seeing as there are so many additional IDEs out there (as of Sept 2005; SharpDevelop, Web Matrix and Visual Web Developer 2005) the book would benefit from only loosely referring to VS.NET usage.

You can tell by reading the paragraphs that the book is aimed for developers very new to NT technologies, you'll find when reading that most of points the authors are trying to get across are mentioned 2-3 times, this followed by pages of similar code makes for a slow read.

Some of the most notable chapters within are that of Events (Chapter 3), Tracing and Debugging (Chapter 7), Data Binding (Chapter 9) in particular the Binding to a Class section, Web Services (Chapters 15,16 and 17) and Caching (Chapter 18). The authors took a risk by introducing ASP.NET Events early on in the book (Chapter 3), it would have been nice to split this chapter into two, an introduction and later on, a chapter with a more in depth look at Events.

O'Reilly's Programming ASP.NET is a nice compliment to anyones ASP.NET book shelf, I'd hint that this book is more for a total beginner and for someone with previous coding experience should opt for something more in depth.

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