Beginning ASP.NET in VB .NET: From Novice to Professional
Product Description
(This book) has helped me to understand the core functionalities of .NET.
— Sita Ananth, Central Maryland ASP Professionals
The most up-to-date and comprehensive introductory ASP.NET book you’ll find on any shelf, Beginning ASP.NET in VB .NET guides you through Microsoft’s latest technology for building dynamic websites. This book will enable you to build dynamic web pages on the fly, and it assumes only the most basic knowledge of VB .NET.
The book provides exhaustive coverage of ASP.NET, guiding you from your first steps right up to the most advanced techniques, such as querying databases from within a web page and performance tuning your site. Within these pages, you’ll find tips for “best practices” and comprehensive discussions of key database and XML principles you need to know in order to be effective with ASP.NET. The book also emphasizes the invaluable coding techniques of object orientation and code behind, which will start you off on the track to build real-world websites right from the beginning&emdash;rather than just faking it with simplified coding practices.
By the time you’ve finsihed the book, you will have mastered the core techniques and have all the knowledge you need to begin work as a professional ASP.NET developer.
Beginning ASP.NET in VB .NET: From Novice to Professional
I bought this book last week, thinking it was a new book because the date is in this year. But, as I started skimming through it, I think now it is really an old book, that has been updated some but not well. How do I think this? Look at many of the screens in chapter 11 (Trace, Log, Error Handling) – they all show dates in 2001 (screen 11-9, 11-10, 11-11)! Same in chapter 17, screen 17-7. Probably many more. If that’s when this was really written, .NET 1.0 was still beta then, so this is beta .NET, not even 1.0 even though back of book says 1.1. I haven’t found any specific errors yet, but I worry. Only place I see 1.1 mentioned in book so far is in introduction. I see a lot of these old 2001 screens right away but not 1.1. Good thing I got this cheap.
Rating: 1 / 5
Real interesting book tells me what I need to know the only problem is now I dont have an excuse for not doing my home work …
Rating: 3 / 5
I’m moving up from VB6/ASP and this book gave me a firm grounding in the main subjects without getting bogged down with too much HTML or elaborate samples. I took an asp.net practice exam a few days after reading it and book had covered most areas that came up.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is “THE” ASP.net I was looking for. I have some other ASP.net books for helping learning/developing. But this one is the most complete I found among the other ones.
I’d recommend this one if you are looking for one book that compiles (comprises) everything. It’s hard to keep looking all over the place for a piece of information. This book helps to solve that.
5 STARS!
For the authors: Good job! Keep up with the great work!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a good book to learn asp .net if you have background of Client/Server side programming from any other language such as PHP. If you are new/beginner I won’t recommend this book. I got stuck in many places while implementing the programs discussed in this book and I had to use my previous expertise to solve the problems. You may need to change here and there of the coding to work properly based on your systems configuration. I gave four star instead of 5 as in the beginning I thought I will be able to breeze through the book without any problem. Things work but after spending some time in changing codes. By the way I was using Visual Studio .Net to do the programs discuessed in this book. Good luck!!
Rating: 4 / 5