ASP.NET for Developers

by Michael Amundsen, Paul Litwin

Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Sams
ISBN: 067232038X; 1st edition (December 14, 2001)

ASP.NET For Developers focuses on teaching the reader ASP.NET using Visual Basic.NET in the most concise, straightforward manner possible. The book presents key concepts for using ASP.NET and VB.NET to efficiently create useful applications. The book contains specific, practical shortcuts and examples based on the extensive experiences of the authors, especially Amundsen's ground floor involvement with IBUYSPY.

About the Author: Michael Amundsen is an internationally best-selling author with titles such as Practical Visual InterDev and Sams Teach Yourself Database Programming with Visual Basic in 21 Days. In addition, Amundsen teaches and consults on development topics: Visual InterDev, Visual Basic, database development, and ASP. He was also one of the developers of IBUYSPY, Microsoft's example website for ASP.NET.

Paul Litwin, Conference Chair for ASP Connections and XML Connections, is a senior consultant with Litwin Consulting and MCW Technologies. Paul has written several books, including the Access 2000 Developer's Handbook. Paul trains numerous developers and has authored courseware for AppDev's Active Server Pages, Visual InterDev as well as Access classes and CD & video seminars.

Customer Reviews
Great Book, well laid out, February 28, 2002
Reviewer: Mark J. Moeykens from Los Angeles, CA USA
This book does a great job in providing you with a little information and then an example to try it out, a little more information and then another example to practice it. The theory and practicals are very well balanced. One thing I DON'T like in a book is too many words and theory and not enough examples.

I've read through 3 other books so far and this one has the best gradient on learning a new technology. Why not 5 stars? With any new technology such as this there are many new technical words introduced. In order to fully grasp a subject you must know what the words mean. Authors should define the new words at the first occurance in a book AND provide a glossary at the back as a reference to these new words. Very, very few books do this. So I just define the words myself and write the definitions in the book.

But, overall I enjoyed this book very much. It's a smaller size than the rest making it very portable. All the examples are in VB.NET too (in case you're wondering).

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