Good for upgrading knowledge from 1.1, not so good for testing
This book is great if you're comfortable with 1.1 and want to upgrade your skills to 2.0. However, it is not exam specific when it come to MCTS 70-528. I would suggest the Test Prep book by Johnson and Northrup for that purpose. This book had some cool tricks and tips that will help you in real life web programming.
Good Intro
With the wide acceptance .net 2.0 and visual studio 2005 I have decided it was time to catch up with the new features provided by ASP.net 2.0. After reading Dino Esposito's Programming Asp.net, I was greatly impressed. The book became a core reference when working with ASP.net. I hoped selecting his updated version for the new framework would provide me with the knowledge necessary and was not disappointed. The book gave me a gentle welcome to the platform additions and displayed with examples how they can be deployed in a `code-less' fashion. The coverage of the new features does take knowledge of the past 1.0 platform. Often the author gives prospective on how applications features were achieved in the 1.0 platform and now can much obtained much easier. Data access coverage was well thought and built upon itself to give the user a good introduction. The only thing I can fault this book is being what it claims, an introduction. The details were kept minimal and only provided a basic working understanding of the additions. The author was able to cover many concepts while not losing a casual reader in the details of implementation. Overall this book is an excellent read for any software developer who wishes to quickly access the new functionality provided by ASP.net 2.0 platform. Dino Esposito's organization and writing style is excellent. This book also serves as an excellent gateway into his Programming Microsoft ASP.net 2.0 which covers many of the excluded details. Experienced developers may want to skip directly to this book.
TERRIBLE book
This book is vague, useless and has bugs in it. dont buy it.
Un poco desactualizado
En lineas generales muy bueno, pero hay algunos temas que parece que estaban en los betas pero en la versión final no y estan reseñados en el libro.
Be Careful before buying this book!
This book is written for the BETA version; thus, some of the information in this book cannot be applied to the latest version. Also all the examples are in C# and for SQL Server 2000 not 2005, and if you don't know C# very much or want to use ASP.NET with new SQL server 2005 which is more appropriate to each other, you shouldn't buy this book. Instead there are some newly written books about ASP.NET 2 - look into them.
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