Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB

Having read Imar Spaanjaar's  Beginning ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB , I was expecting a number of good things from this book.Imar's book is really great in that he shows you how to build a Web application with ASP.NET 3.5. However, with Professional ASP.NET 3.5 In C# and VB, you instead get 1500+ page reference book.Now that's not necessarily a bad thing, but that does mean that if you want to get started with ASP.NET, pick up Imar's book first, or better still, too.That said, this also means that if you're the type to read a book from beginning to end, you'll have a real 'joy' reading this book. That's because after a few chapters you'll notice that the author's clearly intended for people to skip around the book. This is evident because they'll discuss something in one chapter, and then reiterate it at the beginning of the next in such a way that suggests they assume you didn't just read this in the last chapter. But, that is good if you consider this as a reference book.The other thing that will strike you is the number of typos in this book. I wasn't keeping track of all of them, such as words melding together, hard returns where there didn't need to be, incorrect figures, etcetera, but I did make note of, and submit, 29 errors in this book (25 of those from page 579 on - I wasn't keeping serious track before then). If you hear that they've done a special edition of this book, or a second edition, just spend the (extra) money and pick it up. Luckily, the code seems pretty clean.Having said all that, I still think Professional ASP.NET 3.5 is an excellent reference book, and one that I'll be keeping on my shelf. Almost every one of the 34 chapters had at least one valuable thing in them, and in most cases, they had many. While some topics are skimmed over, they give a very indepth look to existing and new features, providing sources to further reference as needed (most of which are free Microsoft references online).Together with Imar's Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 In C# and VB, I would definitely recommend this to anyone interested in ASP.NET 3.5. I would also recommend this reference book (last time, I promise :) ) to anyone who's worked with previous versions of .NET, and just needs to know how to advance their skills.

Short commentary: The book is good and worth for your money.Long commentary: The book is good, however, it is not excellent. They have tried to mention all the relevant elements of ASP.NET 3.5, and they have succeeded; never the less, it is more or less just list of an elementary examples.The glue that would put all of them to real world use is not here, for such a book you will have to search other titles. I have also that kind of book, and - it has its own weaknesses. The best would be to have both books. Or one really big and complete book which would be twice thicker and about 4000 pages :-)....Still it is a good read and for lot of people this will be really enough. Anyway, it all depends on how much you work when you put the book aside.

i finished it a while ago, so i cant b very specific(im 4ever reading dev books) i did read it from cover to cover and enjoy it very much. its very comprehensive, with good short 2-the-point examples.many chapters. really covers just about everything. all in all i would recommend it as i learned a lot from t( i give only 4 stars, cause as much-too-many books of this type, it is obvious that it was a .net 2 book, with some added chapters and material for 3.5. sometimes the copy-paste is so obvious that i had to laugh. such as "this-and-this new feature, introduced in .net 3.5 is great...." when everyone knows it was introduced in 2.0. everyone, that is, except for the copy-replace feature of their text editor...")

This is the book that taught me ASP.NET back in the day.

I am about a third into this and have found the book to be somewhat disappointing relatively to other Wrox books. My areas of concern include the following:- Lots of editing errors, spelling errors, and references to figures that are not what the descriptions suggest.- Wrox book strengths are in their good examples. Most of the examples in this book are so trivial as to not demonstrate anything except perhaps syntax.- Some topics are not explained beyond the listing of the features and settings. Could use more explanation of many of these features and settings, and exactly what they effect. (In fairness, its a big subject, and I am only 500 pages in so some topics may be explained in more depth in subsequent chapters.)

This book came in handy while doing some ASP.Net work at work. This is not a book designed to teach you ASP.Net so keep that in mind. It's really a reference more than anything.The way it splits VB/C# is very handy too so if you use either language this book will come in handy (or if you are converting from one language to another).

I've repeatedly turned to this book when trying to do something quickly that I've not done before; it has a great index, working code, and useful explanations. Of the 10 or so ASP.NET books I've purchased, this is one of the better ones for me.

Simply put, this is the best tech book I've read on a topic in quite a while. The authors do a great job of covering almost all important topics of asp.net. For any given topic, the writing is easily readable, thurough, filled with examples, and a mimimum of full. If you want to learn about asp.net 3.5, start here.

Got this through previous job to get up to date in C#ASP.Net. To use it, follow the examples, look on the net & develop deeper in areas you'll find the most useful, a great 'pointer', extra downloads & forum available from publisher website

The book looks good and will help me a lot

Boring and didn't finish it