Introduction to ASP.Net, Second Edition

by Keith Morneau and Kate Kalata

Revolutionizing the way Web applications are developed, ASP.NET is built on Microsoft's .NET framework. Microsoft has added new functionality to ASP to make Web application development easier and tool... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0619216859
• ISBN13: 9780619216856
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Course Technology
• Length: 772 Pages
• Weight: 2.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Good book for a guided class

Someone bought the second edition and gave it a single star after doing the same with the first edition. That seems a bit unclear - I don't think I could purchase the second edition of something that I was unhappy with. The errors are there (as with any text) but when used as a guided classroom text (with someone to point out the issues) it becomes a great asset. It isn't the best text I've seen but it does pass muster when correctly used. My experience is over 30 years in IT business and industry and 12 years in colleges and universities.

Don't pay attention to the feeding frenzy

The book is fine. I would normally rate it at 3 or a little higher but I've bumped it up to 4 to offset the reader who didn't read the book but gave it a single star rating. It has the normal typos and silliness that creep into a first time text; however, it is much better than almost any other asp.net text out there. I have used it in four .NET classes and, with instructor assistance, it comes out smelling much better than the Deitel or other texts. Our students are among the most finicky of people and the average rating for the text - with 45 students replying - was 3 out of 4 points. I recommend augmenting it with the .pdfs from asp.net and using common sense when attempting the projects. These additions are probably what turned the tide in the class from some confusion to acceptance that the text was good enough. Again, there are errors so go to the book's site and download the errata. The next edition (which I am reviewing) is much better and should be on the market very soon.

I need this book

This book is not good in some aspects - but rookie will need it, mainly because there is really no good beginner books out there for us rookies - and I have tried Wrox, MS press, Dummies - plus a host of other books that I eventually give up because - somehow or rather - they get too deep and lost me. Together with Jim Buyens "Web Database Development Step by Step", this book kind of help me build confident. Jim Buyens book try to do everything via hand coding, and this book use an opposite approach - it use a step by step guide you via the GUI to do things whenever possible - nothing wrong with this approach - this is in the right spirit of "Visual", and we non-programmer who has phobia looking at the html code welcome this approach. Oh, it is true that the explanation and discussion in this book is done in a way that if you do not already know them you will be lost - but I have no problem with that since I have struggled with quite a few ASP.NET books in the past year. To be honest, even if you know the subject matter well - sometime you are puzzle at what they are talking about. However, I really don't read this book page to page - I just browse to the step by step portion and go thru the exercise. It doesn't make me expert, but it often teach me simple things that otherwise I will never learn elsewhere.