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Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768
EAN num: 9780672326745
ISBN number: 0672326744
Label: Sams
Manufacturer: Sams
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Page Count: 624
Printing Date: May 30, 2004
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Are you getting the most from ASP.NET? While it's easy to build quite complex pages quickly and easily with ASP.NET, acquiring a more intimate knowledge of the Framework as a whole means that you can really take advantage of the great features it provides. This book is aimed at developers who are already familiar with ASP.NET, and explores some of the more advanced topics that help you to build better, more efficient, and more attractive Web pages and Web applications. In fact, many of the examples are designed to illustrate and provide solutions for questions and problems that appear regularly on the ASP.NET forums and newsgroups. Topics include getting more from the DataGrid control, creating reusable content as both user controls and server controls, page templating and cross-page posting, building secure applications, validating user input, relational and XML data handling issues, integrating client-side script, providing great cross-browser support, and much more.
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I own 6 or 7 ASP.Net books. The best is Karl Moore Code Book and a near second is Scott Mitchell Data Web Controls. I read every book cover to cover and test ALL SAMPLES. So $50.00 for a book if I can get a trick or two that works is well worth the price. Well this book looks great and the on line demos work great. Just don't expect to be able to use any of sample code in VS.Net. Now if you want to code .Net in notepad this is you book. If you are using anything other than notepad - pass on this book. None of the 12 samples that I tried to bring into a test project would run. All needed one to two hours of rework just to get going. It is in fact faster to just read the text get the idea and fire up a new blank solution and type EVERYTHING. That is now why I buy books. I do not want to figure it out and retype most of the code...
VERY DISAPOINTED.
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This is easily the best book on ASP.NET that I have read, among several titles from Wrox, Microsoft Press, etc. This book packs twice as much useful information into half the pages of the others, and is a steal at the going price.
Perfect for someone at the advanced beginner/intermediate level, there is no wasted space on how to declare a variable or construct a loop. Instead, the authors use several small project examples to highlight approaches to real-world issues such as injecting client-side script into .NET apps, building master-detail pages, and much more. One area that especially impressed me is the superb coverage of how to build a custom control. The explanation of custom controls in the other books I've read involves a waving of hands and a declaration of "that's how it's done". This book actually explains the process in a detailed and understandable manner, covering topics such as inheritance and the implementation of interfaces.
Shortcomings of the book are that virtually all the code is in VB (although there are occasional pointers to specific C# differences), and the controls that are built in the examples have an unfinished feel to them, and are not ready for inclusion in a web page without further work.
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The author, editors and the printers did a great job. The page is full of text, not like the Apress style of two-inch white margins. The code examples are in color, unlike the B&W of the Wrox series. The binding and page paper quality is superior to the O'Reilly type, so that even after alot of abuse as a desk reference text, it will last. Just like Glenn Johnson's "ASP.Net in 60 Minutes a day" published a year ealier, all the examples are in Visual Basic. I just wished they were in C# (not easy to find if you are doing ASP.NET ). Definitely worth its money.
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The subtitle to the book says it all: "Practical Insight and Advice from the Experts"
This book is loaded with useful real-world information and code snippets. Code examples are in VB only, both in the book and on the companion Website, which is an excellent resource where you can download the code in one .zip file and also run the code examples online and see the code your just ran...extremely helpful to a developer like me. I consider myself an ntermediate level ASP.NET programmer and this book will definitely help me reach the subsequent level... but if you're already at an advanced level, I think you will still find this book useful. Wow, I really can't say enough good things about this book.
I was at my local Barnes & Noble brick and mortar store looking for a landscaping book because our new property is in need of some serious landscaping. Well, I hadn't planned on getting any programming books but I decided I had time to check out the ASP.NET section to see if anything new was there. This book caught my attention immediately, so I read through the TOC and my eyes started getting wider and I adjusted my stance to get more comfortable because I could sense I was going to be standing here a while longer reviewing the book in depth. I immediately noticed the section on "cross-page posting" near the front of the book and one of the less advanced topics covered. Well, the authors spend 21 pages showing different techniques for passing values to another page. The book clearly demonstrates four main techniques for passing values between pages, something that is done in practically every asp.net application, but many books gloss over this at best and seem to concentrate on the Post back paradigm ASP.NET was designed for or other books seem to contain similar information but spread out in different chapters of the book. What I like about the approach in this book is that the authors breakdown a problem, in this case it's "how to pass values to another page" and then you are given options and then each option is explained using words, code examples and diagrams, so any intermediate or advanced developer could figure out what works best for their particular situation. In the more advanced topics there may be only one option, but at least they present it to you clearly and in a succinct manner. The writing style is easy to read without a lot of useless anecdotes and babble.
I would also like to point out that the layout of the book is top notch... not like a Wrox book where you can get a bit cross-eyed at times. Don't get me wrong, I like some of the Wrox books and have 3 on my shelf, but the layout of this book is very logical and clean. The content, code, figures and diagrams are very well presented, probably the most user-friendly layout I've seen when it comes to programming books. It's similar to the layout of the "ASP.NET Unleashed" book but even better IMO.(both published by SAMS) Each main section has a "best practice" subsection and there are also sidebar paragraphs to highlight tips and important information.
The code examples are very helpful at getting the point across and could be used in real-world applications. All of the code examples I've tried on the compainion Website have worked for me, although I have not tried every single one of them yet. Most of the code examples in the book are presented as a Sub or Function, so that helps keep the size of the book down to 559 pages not including the index and intro pages, but the full code is provided on the Website. Many examples use the standard SQL Server NorthWind db, so if you wanted to run the code on your local machine, you need a connection to SQL Server.
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There is no CD, but really no need for one because the companion Website has all the code and you can run the examples online too.
There is not one ounce of "fluff" in this book. It is 100% real-world, useful, nitty-gritty content. It is not targeted for beginners. The authors assume you've built at at least a couple ASP.NET applications already and are familiar with the basics. The layout of the book's content is such that you can skip directly to the section you're interested in. It's not a beginning type book where each chapter sort of builds upon the next, rather, you can delve into specific topics and even subtopics directly. The only minor wish I have is for more code examples, but then again, doesn't every programmer wish for more examples they can directly apply to their own applications? Rest assured, there is enough code to get the point across for each and every topic covered.
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