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Title: Fast Track ASP.NET by Brady Gaster, Marco Bellinaso, Kevin Hoffman ISBN: 1-86100-719-1 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fast Track ASP.NET
Comment: I purchased this book and Fast Track C# together and I was not disappointed with either book.
Pros:
The Fast Track C# book is targeted to Java and C++ developers making the transition to C# and the Fast Track ASP.Net C# Edition is targeted to ASP 3.0 programmers making the transition to ASP.Net. Even though I have limited ASP 3.0 experience, the book was easy to follow and I did not feel lost. When you have multiple authors, the difference in writing styles can sometimes be very obvious but that is not the case with Bellinaso, Gaster, and Hoffman. Their writing styles blend together. It was hard to distinguish where 1 author finished up and another started. Each chapter in this book builts upon the knowledge of the previous chapters. If you have some ASP and/or .Net skills you might want to skip the 1st (What is ASP.Net?) chapter. The authors show the results of the source code. If you do the examples, you can compare your results to the authors. A lot of books show you the source code but never show you the results. How can you know if you are doing it right, if you do not have the results to compare it with? Wrox recommends that this book or the "Beginning ASP.Net using C#" be followed with more advanced or specialized books. This book will give the basic skills to successfully write ASP.Net using C#. I would follow Wrox's advice and supplement this book with more advanced books. This is an excellent starting book and will get you up to speed with ASP.Net using C# in a hurry! I highly recommend this book.
Cons:
If you use a highligher, it may "bleed" through several pages before or after the page that you highlighted. This really makes a messy book. Did anyone else experience this?
Rating: 5
Summary: Great!
Comment: I've partecipated to a number of Microsoft briefing on .net the past year. The evangelists i meet where doing all to make .net impossible to understand and this made me look at .net with a certain suspect. Then i got this book and.. tadah! I've seen the light. If you understand nothing on how asp.net works this is the book for you. You'll see that there is nothing magic, nothing hidden behind ,that your knowledge of asp and ado still worth (despite the propaganda) and that .net could become a improuvement of your old style of work, not his destruction. The book covers shortly but effectively all the aspects of asp.net development. Is a great point to start from.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Starter...A little light on more advanced topics
Comment: First let me say this book fully met my expectations from what I know of Wrox press and the Fast Track series. It was a big help on the little things I was hanging up on. I'm a very experienced programmer with a lot of languages under my belt, and so my biggest hurdle in learning a new technology is the "translation" of certain concepts from one platform to another. This book is good for that "I know how to do X in ASP classic...how does that fit into .NET" state of mind. It probably would help to already be familiar with C# or another OO language though...pure VBScripters may have more trouble with the syntactical elements.
My only problem with this book is the very cursory examination of custom user controls. When I started writing ASP.NET, one of the first things I wanted to do was translate my old SSI libraries into the .NET framework, and one of the best ways to do so is with custom user controls...but the book barely spent two pages on it, and what they did discuss was hardly worth mentioning to begin with.
Aside from that one gripe however, great book.
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Title: Fast Track C# by Julian Templeman, Jon Reid, Neil Avent, K. Scott Allen, Syed Fahad Gilani ISBN: 1861007116 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 24 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Fast Track Visual Basic .NET by Rocky Lhotka, Billy Hollis ISBN: 1861007124 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 24 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Fast Track ADO.NET by Kevin Hoffman, Donald Xie, Kourosh Ardestani ISBN: 1861007604 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 23 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: ASP.NET Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution C# Edition by Marco Bellinaso, Kevin Hoffman ISBN: 1861006934 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: ASP.NET Tips & Techniques by Greg Buczek ISBN: 0072225149 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 21 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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