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BOOKS - ASP.NET
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BOOKS - ASP.NET
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ASP.NET Components Toolkit
Author(s):Daniel Cazzulino et al.,
ASPNL rating: 6.5
The ASP.NET Components Toolkit shows how to create 15 different controls for
ASP.NET. The usefulness of the different controls varies, but the build up of
every control and the explanation around it does show various aspects of control building.
If you want to learn how to build controls, there are better books on the market however.
This means that this book is mainly interesting if you need exactly the controls covered,
or if you already know how to build controls and want to be inspired by some of the better ideas in it.
One downside is that the code is in VB.NET, which has several bugs (as explained in the book)
and a less appealing event handling system. C# is still the better choice for control building,
and would therefore have been a better choice in the book.
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Debugging ASP.NET
Author(s): J. Goodyear, et al.
ASPNL rating: 5.5
Debugging ASP.NET is nowhere near as detailed as it should be. If you
already have experience with ASP.NET, chances are that you already know a
lot of what's in the book. The book is divided in four parts. Part I is
good, although it starts by telling you about ASP instead of ASP.NET. Part
II is excellent and actually shows debugging very well, along with very
useful tips like writing messages to the Windows Event Log. Parts III and IV
are poor, with much too much code and little explanation, and not adding
much useful information to what ASP.NET programmers already know. Appendix A
is about ASP to ASP.NET migration and is again excellent.
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Presenting C#
Author(s): Christoph Wille
ASPNL rating: 8
Simple, effective explanation of C#. Besides an explanation of C# also
shows what .NET is as a whole and how C# fits into it. Only practical if you want to learn C#.
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Professional ASP.NET
Author(s): Wrox author team
ASPNL rating: 7.5
Professional ASP.NET is not meant for the faint at heart. Good knowledge of ASP,
ADO, COM, MTS among others, is necessary to benefit from this book. Even
though ASP.NET and the .NET Framework are radically different from those
technologies, ASP.NET is constantly compared with its predecessors. If you
have that knowledge, then this book is of great benefit and a good starting
point to learn ASP.NET. Because of the way the book is setup, it is also
good as a reference afterwards. One subject that is sadly missing from this
book is inheritance of objects and server controls. Furthermore the book
contains some minor errors with regard to the final release, because of the
fact that it was written during the development of Beta 2.
You can read a sample chapter here
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Professional ASP.NET Performance
Author(s): Matt Odnher, Doug Thews, et al.
ASPNL cijfer: 7.5
The rating for this book is mainly based on the fact the the information it gives is very useful. It gives a good insight into creating fast and scalable applications. That is also a point of critizism,
as much information is not really related to ASP.NET, but to performance in general. Although that isn't bad by itself, the ratio is about 60/40, with only 40% really about ASP.NET.
Another downside is that it is very clear that the book was written bij several authors. The depth of the different chapters differs a lot, and there is quite a bit of repetitive information,
that also at times is contradictory. A last thing is that in some instances a parallel is drawn with ASP, which is completely unnecessary, but on top of that is inaccurate.
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Programming Data-Driven Web Applications with ASP.NET
Author(s): Donny Mack & Doug Seven
ASPNL cijfer: 7
Mack & Seven have a very catchy writing style, making this book an easy
read. The book contains a lot of useful information for people making
average web applications with ASP.NET. Some topics, such as working with the
DataGrid and DataList, are overly detailed with a lot of information being
repeated. This particularly goes for the code listings, that often don't
change much from listing to listing. Just telling the reader what has
changed would have sufficed. The structure of the book is also lacking a
little. The topics covered are sometimes somewhat out of the scope of
data-driven websites, and some chapters expect the reader to have no
knowledge of ASP.NET whatsoever, whereas others realy require the reader to
have a solid base knowledge. It seems like Mack and Seven were not clear or
in agreement over the intended audience. The result is that you likely will
need a book to learn ASP.NET from, and then read this book for some really
practical information. Both books will have a lot of overlap however.
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Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days
Author(s): Chris Payne
ASPNL rating: 7
Although the author is enthusiastic and really knows what he is talking about, the structure of the book and the choice
of subjects is somewhat unfortunate. The book contains too many subjects and some of those aren't relevant to
somebody just learning ASP.NET, especially somebody not familiar with ASP. Those subjects that are important
could have benefited from a more in depth discussion. However the book is huge (nearly 1000 pages), which makes
it very good if you want to learn a lot about ASP.NET.
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