Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in .NET) 2nd Corrected ed., Corr. 3rd printing Edition

If you're new to ASP.Net this is a great book to get your feet wet as well as starting to get into C#. As an experienced IT professional, you can move around the book easily. You're not gonna be building large corporate systems from this book. "Beginning" is in the title for a reason, so don't expect anything really complex or in-depth, but there is sufficient detail to get you familiar with the tools and controls. I would use this book over doing an instructed course. Also look at  Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) .I found few errata. It even works well with VS2010. There are not that many changes that invalidate the content in the book from 2008. All up.. A buy.

This book will teach you what you need to know in order to start developing full fledged ASP.NET applications. It will teach you C# fundamentals, common web development practices and principles, the basic of web forms and its controls, ADO.NET and data-biding control (grid view, list view and form view), asp.net configuration and caching.In my professional life I've used this book to teach others to work in the .NET framework (both desktop and web) since ti covers technologies which are not ASP.NET specific (such as C#, XML, ADO.NET) and thanks to .NET designers ingenuity developers who have grasped web.forms fundamentals will quickly learn to use the win.forms framework effectively.

This book is quite good for a specific type of person; Namely, that person that is familiar with some other programming language to the point that they do not need in depth handling of the more general concepts such as control statements, looping constructs, etc. In spite of the word "Beginning" being in the name, this book is not geared towards a person completely new to programming. On the back cover it explains that it "...targets experienced software professionals and/or students of computer science...". Don't let that scare you though; If you have taken a basic Computer Science beginners programming course or two, or are familiar with the basics from some other programming language, you will find this book sufficient to give you a good introduction to not only the C# language, but .Net as well. At over 1300 pages, there is ample space to cover a lot of what is a very large subject topic (C# & .Net). The book is well laid out, and I have not found too many typos (though I did find one code example written in vb.net as opposed to c#!). If you are entirely new to Object Oriented Programming, some of the subject matter might take you a little bit more work to understand, but I still think the book is a solid 5, as there are ample code examples, with (in my opinion) good explanations. Another bonus if you buy this version of the book is that you can download an electronic copy at no extra cost from the publisher!In short while it is sometimes hard for a person of intermediate experience with programming in general to find a book targeting a language/technology that isn't too "beginner" while at the same time isn't too advanced, I thought that this book fit into that category quite nicely.

Nothing wrong with this book but it requires some previous coding background (I am proficient in C#) and it will not give you every answer. For example, for a simple question like "how do I insert a image file into my webpage, either server side or client side?", I had to go here to Yahoo Answers to find the answer ( [...] )I'm just saying this book doesn't try and hold your hand and give you every conceivable answer. It's just a tutorial, and worth the money, though I would get a previous edition for less money, as it is a bit expensive.Also it covers subjects rather quickly (a few pages) and in reality these subjects could use 10 to 20 pages, but again, you can use the internet to get more info.

I needed to come up to speed on [...] for a project I am working on and this book was exactly what I needed. I really like the authors writing style. He is detail oriented and explains things in a clear manor. His thorough coverage of various topics saved me a lot of time. For example, the deployment chapter has a step by step procedure for getting the IIS server running in both Windows XP and Windows Vista. It mentions what problems you will run into if .NET 3.5 is installed before the server and how to fix these issues. I had IIS up and running my project in about an hour. I suspect it would have taken the better part of a day without the detailed steps and tips presented in the book.Many of the programming books I have purchased containing a large number of pages, keep publishing page after page of the same example code with minor changes. It seems like they are trying to meet a page limit. This book, while it does give examples, confines the code to the topic at hand. There is a lot of good information if you want to get into the details, but it is also easy to skim. This book rates in the top 5% of programming books I have read.

The author excels in giving a very deep discussion on nearly all the component parts of ASP.NET 3.5, together with a number of code samples for each chapter that serve to illustrate the principles involved and clear up any ambiguities in the foregoing explanations that may have arisen. Everything seems to have been covered on each topic, from the underlying design philosophy to the nuts-and-bolts of producing the code for each example.The book does reach its stated objective, in a way that it would be difficult indeed to better: to go from the very beginning, in a comprehensive manner, until finally reaching a very respectable level of understanding and skill in application.

フォームにコントロールを貼り付けてデータベースを叩く、といった他の書籍でも解説しているありきたりの内容はもちろん、ステート管理や例外処理、セキュリティモデル、IIS にデプロイするときの手順と注意点など、実際の開発で必要な知識もうまくまとめあげた良書です。ASP.NET の入門書には、WinForms の経験のある人には物足りないような、表面だけの解説に終止するものが多い中、本書からは現場でも役に立つ知識が身につけられると思います。

This book is, I am sorry to say, a total waste of money!If I could give it less than 1 star, I would.The author makes a descent attempt at explaining the pro and con of a specific concept, but it gets frustrating and very confusing, when a concept is finally understood, the next sentence starts with "But this is not a very good approach"!!! After which another method is explained, but leaves the reader wondering if this is another time-waster explanation.The book is mostly theoretical text, which is hardly backed up with examples. Once examples are used, they are flawed, incomplete and refers to the downloadable source code. When trying to type in the examples given in the book, Visual Studio replies with compilation errors, and when compared with the source code, it is totally different from the book, is sometimes implemented differently and have added functionality which hasn't been explained.All in all, this book will leave the reader confused and frustrated and discouraged from learning ASP.NET.

Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008 From Novice to Professional wird seinem Titel gerecht. Als langjäriger Javaprogrammierer kommt man zunächst auch ohne Literatur mit C# schnell zurecht, aber um die Feinheiten und Konzepte genau zu verstehen braucht es dann doch ein wenig länger.Das Buch gibt eine gute Einführung in C#, lässt aber dabei auch den Profi nicht alleine. Auch die neueren Konzepte werden ausgiebig erläutert. Die Texte sind super geschrieben und es macht Spass in dem Buch zu lesen. Viele Probleme können damit schnell und effizient gelöst werden. Ein Must have in meiner Bibliothek!

Gut um einen Einstieg in die ASP-Programmierung zu erhalten, daher empfehlenswert. An manchen Stellen trotz recht sicherem Englisch, leider nicht ganz so leicht zu lesen.Leider wirkt das Buch etwas billig unter anderem, da die Seiten recht dünn sind und aus Recycl-Papier bestehen.Ok alles für die Umwelt aber trotzdem bei einem 50€ Buch hätten es auch weiße sein können (stört mich etwas beim Lesen).Daher von mir 4 Sterne.