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Title: ASP.NET in a Nutshell by G. Andrew Duthie, Matthew MacDonald ISBN: 0-596-00116-9 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (12 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: BALANCED AND WELL-STRUCTURED
Comment: Messrs Duthie and MacDonald should be commended for their great effort in structuring this text. The entire 800 pages of this book contain all the necessary ingredients that any serious ASP.NET learner would need in balancing his/her knowledge. It includes: web service development, data access, security, custom controls, deployment, error handling and much more.
In highlighting all the essentials, this book provided easy-to-follow practical analyses for all the features it covered. There are well-anticipated examples which guide the reader through the course. This is a very nice book to have around.

Rating: 4
Summary: ASP.Net in a nutshell
Comment: Review: ASP.NET in a Nutshell - A Desktop Quick Reference

ASP.NET in a Nutshell is the fast track way to get up-to-speed on Microsoft's next generation technology for building web enabled applications on the .NET platform.

The book is structured in three sections. Part 1 provides a high level overview of what ASP.NET is and discusses the new features such as Web Services, Server Controls, Data Access (ADO.NET), Security, Configuration, Error Handling, and Validation Controls. Part 2 is a reference to each of the major classes that are available as part of the ASP.NET object model. A chapter is devoted to each of the following classes:

- Page

- HttpApplication and HttpApplicationState

- HttpContext

- HttpException

- HttpRequest

- HttpResponse

- HttpServerUtility

- HttpSessionState

Part 3 provides a reference to the namespaces you'll most commonly come across while developing ASP.NET applications. Of all three sections, I found this section to be the least useful. Although each of the classes has an introductory reference, Most of the information here can be sourced easily from the MSDN documentation. Such a reference would have been better suited to a book on ASP, where the official documentation was somewhat scarce.

The books introductory chapters start out with code examples written in both VB.NET and C#, however as you progress further through the book the samples are provided in VB.NET only. This is not such a bad thing, but I would have preferred it had the authors stuck to one language throughout the book, or give consistent examples throughout the book in both languages.

This is not a book for beginners. For those readers just starting out with ASP.NET or with little to no web development experience, I would suggest reading other titles such as Programming ASP.NET (O'Reilly) or Professional ASP.NET (Wrox Press) before purchasing ASP.NET in a Nutshell.

At the end of the day, ASP.NET in a Nutshell provides a good quick reference to the fundamentals of ASP.NET, with excellent tutorials and "How To's" throughout. Despite the namespace reference providing only a little more than the MSDN documentation, the first two sections more than make up for those 300 odd pages of filler. And If you're willing to live with most of the example being written in VB.NET then this book is definitely a worthwhile purchase.

Rating: 5
Summary: O'Reilly at it's best
Comment: I've been reading O'Reilly since the days of the tiny fifty page staple-bound brown Nutshell books that covered shell commands and the first version of Perl. This book is that has taken that same approach to data condensation and applied it to everything you need to know about ASP.NET. And extend they have at almost a thousand pages it is far heavier than the original books, but that doesn't make it any less worthwhile.

The first section covers all of the conceptual introductions to the topics, .NET controls, web services, configuration and security and all of the basics. The second section covers each section of the class library in a concise and consistent form that make it so much easier to grab for the book before you even press F1 to bring up the MSDN. Where necessary they include code fragments to demonstrate the point along with the explanatory text but it is never overblown or unnecessary.

This isn't light bedtime reading but it is an invaluable reference to sit next to the keyboard of any ASP.NET programmer.

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