Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 by George Shepherd
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- Pub. Date: February 2008
- 592pp
- Sales Rank: 309,864
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: February 2008
- Publisher: Microsoft Press
- Format: Paperback, 592pp
- Sales Rank: 309,864
- Series: Step by Step (Microsoft) Ser.
- ISBN-13: 9780735624269
- ISBN: 0735624267
Synopsis
Get the hands-on, step-by-step guide to learning the latest enhancements in ASP.NET code name "Orcas." ASP.NET continues to be an important application platform that delivers a simplified, high-performance, and powerful Web development experience. Building on your familiarity with the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual C#®, you can teach yourself the essentials of working with ASP.NET in the Microsoft Visual Studio® environment-one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Whether you're a beginning programmer or new to this version of the technology, you'll understand the core capabilities and fundamental techniques for ASP.NET-and begin building practical Web applications and Web services. Includes a companion CD with code samples, data sets, and a fully searchable eBook.
Key Book Benefits:
•Features easy-to-follow, logically planned lessons to help you learn at your own pace
•Delivers a solid understanding of how to use Visual Studio "Orcas" with ASP.NET to create Web applications and Web services
•Includes a companion CD with code samples, data sets, and a fully searchable eBook
Biography
George Shepherd is a .NET Framework expert who works at Rockwell where he develops some of the best third-party .NET tools available. He has been programming Windows since version 2.0-back in the late 1980s. For the debut of Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) in the early 1990s, George co-authored the definitive reference for MFC, MFC Internals. During MFC's heyday as a powerful user-interface development platform, MFC Internals was part of the canon for serious MFC developers. George covers Web-based and Windows-based interface development with the .NET Framework as a contributing editor for MSDN® Magazine, and is a contributing editor for Dr. Dobb's Journal. He is also a co-author of the classic Microsoft Press® book Programming Microsoft Visual C++®. George regularly delivers seminars with DevelopMentor and is also a popular speaker at industry conferences. In his "spare time," George plays a mean slide guitar.
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Microsoft ASP. NET 3. 5by Anonymous
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August 17, 2008: Having read several Step by Step books and having appreciated the series for what it is--introductory, quick, hands on--this book was a huge disappointment. It is inconsistent with the Step by Step series because as early as Chapter 4 it covers advanced topics, such as creating custom controls, that the intermediate/advanced texts don't even consider until much later, if at all. It inexplicably does this without even covering the basics first. It's idea of the basicis is to cover some history and the inner workings of IIS. You can also tell that much of the book is simply a copy-and-paste from the previous edition. Screenshots of the samples still display the directory structure of the 2.0 edition, for example, so they do not match the included sample directories. There are also many errors, only a handful of which are listed in the errata. One glaring error is that the sample code will not install on Vista AT ALL unless you uninstall IIS first. Both the readme and the errata discuss this issue, but neither offers the actual resolution--the reader is left to figure it out on their own. There are countless little errors, sometimes it seems every page or so, where the author states to click this or select that, except this and that are not available where he states. He says to open a certain dialog, but gives no indication where the dialog can be found, etc. Prospective readers should also note that the requirements for this 'beginner' book are pretty steep: VS 2008 -NOT Express- and ISS chief among them. The book does state this so I have not rated on this point, but it should serve as another exaple of how the book does not fit the Step by Step genre. If you've read many programming books you know that most are mediocre, a few are great, and once in a while you get one that should have never made it past the editor. This is the latter. I usually sell, trade, or give away books that I have no use for, but I could only keep a clear conscience by sending this one for recycling.
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