ASP.NET Weekend Crash Course (With CD-ROM)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 360 pages
• Published by: Wiley; Pap/Cdr edition October 15, 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764548360
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764548369
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Book Description
Open the book on Friday evening and by Sunday afternoon ñ- after completing thirty fast, focused lessons - you will have mastered the skills necessary to begin creating robust, dynamic, data-driven web applications with ASP.NET. In just one weekend, expert developer Robert Standefer leads you into the new world ofMicrosoft.NET, and enables you to create robust, dynamic, data-drive web applications. Starting with ASP.NETbasics, Robert teaches you what you need to know to begin creating ASP.NET applications quickly, and easily. This book is a must have for any developer building web applications on Microsoft's new .NET Framework.

Book Info
Starting with ASP.NET basics, Robert teaches you what you need to know to begin creating ASP.NET applications quickly, and easily. A must have for any developer building web applications on Microsoft's new .NET Framework. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

Reader Reviews
This book is truly a rare find. Technical books are often daunting to the beginner; occasionally frightful to the Intermediate. But this book takes instructional incompetence to a whole new level I've read enough technical and programming books to know that a few errors are inevitable. I guess I have to cut Rob (the author) some slack. He wrote the book while ASP.NET was in Beta. ASP.NET is now in its first release and most of his more meaty examples, if they ever did work, do not work now. As of this review date, the author has posted no *important* errata on his book's Web site. I have no doubt he knows how to program well, but writing may not be his bag. Stick to the day job, Rob. Hungry Minds (the publisher) could have saved a few trees by making Mr. Standefer condense his re-caps to the important parts of code. Instead he will spend anywhere from 2-4 pages showing you the entire code listing from the previous chapter(s) (a quick way to get through a chapter). On the other hand, one nice feature about this book is that if you can't get the example to work in one chapter, you have the same example-with different errors-in the next chapter. It's nice that the errors differ from chapter to chapter, so you can find which lines are different and take your best stab at correcting them. I have a bookshelf at home that holds all of the tech books I've completed. I feel I've wasted money if I buy a book and don't read it cover to cover. Before "ASP.NET Weekend Crash Course" there was only one book I EVER started that I just couldn't finish-now there are two. ...If you are a beginner, take a guide with you. If you are intermediate or advanced, you *may* be able to muddle through the errors, but why? Aside from any errors not working, this book serves as a sort of technical specification. Far too much real estate is given to "How it was done in ASP", which leaves too little room for indoctrinating one on "How it is done in ASP.NET" Granted, part of the complexity for a beginner will also lay in the fact that multiple languages, concepts and technologies are being presented at once. This is not the author's fault. That is the nature of .NET (and specifically ASP.NET). The author never gives full attention (or enough working examples) to the technologies new to ASP.NET (such as Web Forms, Classes, Data Binding, XML, etc). I have to agree, yet disagree with the customer below. While the book seems to be a re-write of the documentation (with additional fluff), I'd have to say that the documentation is a lot easier to follow (that may not be saying much for this book... Comment | | (Report this)