Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days
Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days by Chris Payne
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Number of Pages:
- 1024
- ISBN:
- 0672321688
- Product Group:
- book
- Publisher:
- Sams
- Publication Date:
- Aug. 1, 2001
- BooksForGeeks.com ID:
- 904
ASP.NET is the part of the new .NET Framework for Web site developers. It's complex but Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days is designed to be accessible to HTML coders so it starts with the basics.
To put ASP.NET into context the author Chris Payne discusses client/server, the Common Language Runtime (CLR), MS Intermediate Language (MSIL) and the .NET Framework classes. He handholds you through installing IIS and the .NET Framework SDK. But by page 21 you're looking at your first ASP.NET page in a browser. Payne goes onto introduce the various languages you can use--C#, C++, VB and others--but his preference is for VB throughout most of the book. You'll learn to validate input, design and access databases, use ADO.NET and get to grips with reading and writing XML via a Web page. By this time you're in week three and your head is beginning to expand. The final third of Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days is full of those dull but necessary skills such as creating and maintaining configuration files, debugging applications and securing your site.
Though the story appears dislocated in places the fairly languid pace makes it easy to work through the examples and explanations--helped by ASP.NET's design. All the code is on the accompanying CD. Existing ASP developers even get a section highlighting differences in each chapter. Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days does what it says without confusing the issue with business processes. --Steve Patient
Reviews for Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days
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An Excellent Pragmatic Approach
Rated out of 5 stars, June 12th, 2009
I used this book after getting my MCP and Chris Payne Ttakse you through the nitty-gritty of the ASP.Net 1.1 like a very gifted teacher; there is no match for the hands-on experience you get from this book.
The applications set out in the book do work, if you have the patience to type things in and the knowledge you gain in is amazing. The brilliant approach gradually evolves into the final application to make you feel like a competent developer.
Well done Chris!
Please write another one on ASP.Net 3.5; I will not hesitate to buy my copy!! -
Appalling
Rated out of 5 stars, July 12th, 2003
I would not advise anybody to purchase this book. It is expensive, inaccurate and incredibly frustrating. Many of the examples either do not work or are for less than useful scenarios.The topic list for the book sounds pretty good but only the surface is scratched on each one.
Very poor indeed, the reason I gave it one star is that Amazon don't allow zero stars :(
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A really excellent introduction
Rated out of 5 stars, October 12nd, 2001
The one thing I hate about IT books is when they loose me. Perhaps I'm easily lost.No such problems with this. A great introduction that takes you pretty deep into this new technology.
The source code doesn't come with the book, but it does carry all the files you need to install ASP.NET locally.
I tried Professional ASP.NET (from Wrox) as well, but much prefer this...
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What a complete waste of paper, let alone money.
Rated out of 5 stars, September 12th, 2001
The examples are inaccurate (see page 66 on arrays), it's the first real meaty example in the book and it's wrong.The cd (with the book I purchased) does not contain the code for the examples in the book, instead it holds .exe's to install heaven knows what.
.Net installs IE 6, the cd with the book tries to install IE5.5 great!There is no assistance with the IDE (integrated environment). There is no assistance with so much about .Net that it is hard to establish just what audience this book is aimed at. The use of DSN's are cited freely throughout the example--- OLD HAT. What about use of the Ole Db comands and SQL command that come built in, or the Data containers, Web form wizards.. all of which are exciting and none of which are explained in teach yourself terms.
Very little about practical applications, project managment, deployment etc etc etc.
Microsft have advanced from Visual Studio's Interdev substantially in .NET. The working examples with all source code is freely available from Microsoft. At least they DO WORK. The 'full application' in this book expects one to type in the source code for the entire application, debug the errors and then eventually get it working.
This book assumes that you are have a great deal of pre knowledge. I work in Cold Fusion, ASP and Interdev environments, I found the guide poor.
Look elsewhere you won't learn anything useful and you most definitely won't learn anything about .NET within 21 days apart from it's difficult and how to debug examples.