Published in August 2004
I have the Dino Exposito book, Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, and I recommend everyone to stay away from it. The company I work for received 2 of these books from a Microsoft rep and I understand why they are giving them away, it sucks. I do have experience with ASP.NET. I have been working with ASP.NET since the release of Beta 2 of ASP.NET 1.0. I started reading this book today and have realized that the content is based on the Beta. After readng the first chapter I have decided to find another book on ASP.NET 2.0. Based on Amazon's and Microsoft's Web site (http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/6962.asp) this book was published in August of 2004.
Wow is this bad!!!
Forget it.
The five star review is clearly written by Dino himself.
Incomprehensible. Doesn't follow any rational order to explain things. Maybe it covers all the new features but you'll never figure out how to use them from this book
A great source for learning about the beta
I found this book very useful in writing my asp.net apps on the beta software.
I plan on buying the other books by this author when they are are released.
If you can read swahili buy this book
If you are a Master of ASP.net you may get something out of this book otherwise, don't waste your money.
Nice first try. Wait for the finished product.
Folks, Use some common sense.
Beta code=Beta book. P.T. Barnum would be proud.
There isn't anything in here that you cannot get in more detail and more up-to-date informationally on gotdotnet.com. I commend the author for trying to make sense out of a product that (at the time of this printing) did not have a lock-down feature set, had clear compatibility problems, and an incomplete functional UI and features list, and was no where near code complete. He (and others) have taken a subject that will have reams of paper dedicated to it (and hundreds of websites and thousands of KB's and articles) and have compressed it into a book that you will toss as soon as the code IS complete, and everyone and their brother starts creating books with the final specifications and documentation. All that has been accomplished is that they (sic.) managed to get you to buy the book before the software is even complete. Kudos. I have an unfinished bridge that needs funding also.
That being said, don't be an idiot and think that using this as a reference material will make you .NET 2.0 code guru. Half the stuff in here is non-working because IT IS BETA CODE. Therefore the book has about as much value as the code.
Next victim please.
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