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Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 3.5 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit
Publisher: Sams - June 27, 2008 ISBN-10: 0672329972, ISBN-13: 9780672329975
Author: Scott Mitchell
628 pages
Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 3.5 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit - book reviews: 19
Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 3.5 in 24 Hours
DVD includes Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with ASP.NET 3.5. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon a real-world foundation forged in both technology and business matters, allowing you to learn the essentials of building dynamic, data-driven web applications from the ground up.
Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common questions, issues, and tasks.
Q&As, quizzes, and exercises at the end of each lesson help you build and test your knowledge.
By the Way, Did You Know?, and Watch Out! boxes point out shortcuts and solutions.
Learn how to…
- Design and create ASP.NET web pages
- Use Microsoft Visual Web Developer to quickly and professionally build ASP.NET websites
- Collect input from users visiting your web pages
- Display database data through a web page
- Edit, insert, delete, sort, and page through database data from an ASP.NET page
- Build a website that supports user accounts
- Use Ajax to design interactive web user interfaces
As editor and main contributor to 4GuysFromRolla.com, a popular ASP.NET resource website, Scott Mitchell has authored more than a thousand articles on Microsoft web technologies since 1998. In addition to his vast collection of online articles, Scott has written six previous books on ASP and ASP.NET: Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days (Sams); Designing Active Server Pages (O’Reilly); ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code (Sams); ASP.NET Data Web Controls Kick Start (Sams); Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 24 Hours (Sams); and Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 2.0 in 24 Hours (Sams). Scott has also written a number of magazine articles and is a regular columnist for Microsoft’s MSDN Magazine.
DVD Includes:
- Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition
On the Web:
- Register your book at informit.com/title/9780672329975 for access to author code, examples, updates and corrections as they become available.
Category: Microsoft Programming/ASP.NET
Covers: ASP.NET 3.5
User Level: Beginning—Intermediate
ASP.NET 3.5
The book is truly for beginners. It steps through web development in the .NET one step at a time. Some sections are too remedial, but they are sectioned in chapters such that it is easy to skip chapters of topics that you already understand.
M. Souza
15 March, 2010
Excellent book!
I'm only about 80 pages in, but finally I found a book where the screen shots actually look like what I'm seeing on my screen, and where the code samples actually work. The author slowly steps you through the development of a web site, but tells you that if you already know html for example where to skip to in the book. I'm a vb 6 programmer transitioning into .net and this is going to make the ride a lot smoother. And it includes free web developer in case you don't have VS 2008.
Ok, I'm 485 pages in now out of 600, and I still love it. Only found one typo so far. Great book!
bds
09 December, 2009
Decent book for beginners
I've only read about half the book but so far, it is well written and definitely geared toward beginners.
J. Storms
14 September, 2009
Ideal for quickly getting up to speed on ASP.Net 3.5
The Sams 'Teach Yourself' range of books are an excellent way to learn new technologies quickly. Whilst they don't give you an in depth understanding of the technologies, they do provide plenty of examples and exercises to help you learn the essentials of a particular IT subject.
In this book, the subject is Microsoft's ASP.Net 3.5. I chose this particular book as I was involved in some web application projects built on ASP.Net and needed a way to quickly get up to speed on ASP.Net. This book is structured in such a way that you are thrown straight into writing code and getting real results on screen. Scott Mitchell is a master at this and has written several other books on the subject, as well as his own blogs. The effect is to immediately capture your interest so that you are keen to press on and complete the full 24 hours, rather than being bogged down reading pages of theory.
The only criticism I have of the book is that it perhaps assumes too much knowledge. The User Level is stated as 'Beginning-Intermediate', which is fairly accurate. However, to fully exploit the power of ASP.Net it is necessary to have a working knowledge of one of the application programming languages like Visual Basic or C#. This is not apparent when starting the exercises, but is quickly realised when dealing with topics on database access and creating classes. Having said that, the book does provide enough knowledge to build a fairly basic ASP.Net web site, and I would recommend it to anyone who needs a cursory understanding of the topic.
Paul Esler
07 July, 2009
Great introductory book to ASP.NET
Great introductory book to ASP.NET for absolute beginner or someone with technical experience that wants to skim across the top and learn quickly.
Matt Duguid
01 July, 2009
