Reviews for Professional ASP.NET 2.0 (Programmer to Programmer)

1. A useful accompaniment to CS courses

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, March 12th, 2009

   This explains a lot about why ASP.Net is the way it is and how it came to be. Its good if you need to now about the Microsoft way of doing things or as a comparison to the open source way of doing things. Its also good for learning ASP.Net from.

2. Not that Professional

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, June 12th, 2007

   I bought this book hoping it would enhance my final year project in Internet Technology, but I am somewhat disappointed with the overall level of detail covered.
   I ended up searching for most things off the net, more specifically MSDN and that sadly was more helpful. I am an amateur to .net and I would rather call this book for Beginners.

3. Professional Book from Professionals

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, April 12th, 2007

   Professional ASP.NET 2.0 is a 1253 paged book covering everything about ASP.NET 2.0. Reading this book and understanding the concepts and new features has been a wonderful experience who wants to dwelve into asp.net world. This book from 5 authors has everything right from scratch briefing the Visual Studio 2005 features to configuration, application management and deployment issues in developing a web solution.
   
   If you are novice to asp.net development, do not have to worry too much! One could just follow the guidelines and information provided any chapter with little difficulty.
   
   Almost 5 chapters are found dealing with Web pages and variety of asp.net controls that could make the reader a real professional in writing control programming. The chapter 10 on Collections and Lists is a unique one which I don't find in any ASP.NET books. It deals with using collection type of objects in web pages and clearly explain the C# 2.0 features in detail.
   
   The book has two chapters on ADO.NET 2.0 describing binding and managing newly introduced data objects. The chapters 15,16,17 on Personalization, Membership and Role Management and Web Parts are stuffed with lots of examples and walk-throughs.
   
   The chapter 18 on Security is nothing but the same old authentication and authorization features available in aspnet 1.1.
   
   State Management and Caching features described in Chapter 20 and 21 are yet again the same old stuff plus the additional features avaialble in 2.0. But, these topics are all explained and placed in proper manner that reading them won't irk you at any point of time.
   
   To worth to specify here is the chapter on Mobile development and Web services. With the entire architecture changed underneath the device oriented applications, the author(s) has took sincere efforts to gather the right information on technical aspects in device applications.
   
   Most of the miscellaneous features covering File-IO, Debugging and C# and VB.NET language enhancements also found place in this book describing the most valuable changes that a developer using in his applications.
   
   Professionls do like such books for two reasons. One, is that book being authored by experienced developers known for their professional work. And, two, the completeness and coverage of the topics spanning around 30 chapters;if they got to refer for a forgotten topic, this one is a right choice.
   

4. Not so good if moving from .Net 1.0/1.1

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, August 12th, 2006

   I've been using .Net since it was in Beta in 2001, and back then I used the Wrox "Beginning ASP.Net" and "Professional ASP.Net" books, which I found excellent.
   Now I'm moving to .Net 2.0, I thought the "Professional ASP.Net 2.0" book would be a logical first choice, but I found myself skimming through at least two-thirds of this book, as it covered an awful lot of subjects that I alread knew. It wasn't a "step up from 1.1" book that I hoped it might be.
   While I found it gave a useful insight into the new .Net 2.0 features, I felt it didn't go into enough detail at times, and understandably some of the new features probably deserve books of their own. At times I was also left with the feeling that one or two chapters were rushed (e.g. the Web Parts) as though the author himself wasn't up to speed with that subject!
   To summarise - not a bad book to give you an overview of .Net 2.0, or "freshen up" on existing subjects, but a lot of it was wasted on me.
   However I'm still a fan of Wrox, and I suspect I'll end up buying their books on ADO.Net 2.0, Web Parts, and Visual Studio 2005 (when released next month).
   

5. Wrox has done it again!

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, February 12th, 2006

   Although this book tries to cater for all types of developers, I think it is still more suitable for those who has done some .Net programming (especially ASP.Net). I really cannot imagine those without ASP.Net gaining much from this book.

   ASP.Net 2.0 is a big subject and hence the thickness (couldn't fit it into my briefcase). However, the authors have done a great job by explaning the subject matter simply and beautifully. I am a MCAD and I did not feel that they were "talking down" to me nor did I feel that it was too shallow.