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Imar Spaanjaars, Paul Wilton, and Shawn Livermore
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Product Description ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results helps you quickly create dynamic Web pages with ASP.NET 2.0. The book is centered around a dozen ready-to-use projects with all the code for all the projects included on the books CD-ROM - that you can use immediately. ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results dives into working code so you can learn it rapidly. The book and projects are written for intermediate-level programmers with some .NET experience. The projects and book provide a quick start reference so you can use ASP.NET 2.0 immediately. Each of the 12 project features step-by-step set-up instructions with a description of each project that enables you to understand and then modify it so you can reuse it in different situations. The 12 projects covered in the book with complete source-code on the CD are: - Online diary and organizer
- File share
- Chat server
- Survey engine
- CMS
- Blog
- Photo album
- Customer support site
- WebShop
- Appointment booking system
- Greeting cards
- Bug base
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Featured Customer Reviews  Yuck! Many bad designs,
August 28, 2007
Parameterized sql query and stored procedure are so little talked about. These allow you to avoid SQL injection attacks 100% even you don't validate user inputs! (but you should).
Consideration of performance gains and hits of their designs are not discussed at all. The book says you can spawn this and that in matter of minutes, but it doesn't tell you that you'll pay the cost later to support more visitors.
There're inconsistencies between different chapters and authors. This is trivial though, but they should explain why some use auto-generated INTEGER while some use UniqueIdentifier to store ID values. Why char(1) not bit data type? Why ntext and nvarchar(MAX)? Why varchar and nvarchar?
I don't recommend this book to anyone. Go with ASP.NET Problem - Design - Solution by Marco Bellinaso THIS IS IN VB ONLY, PEOPLE!!,
July 09, 2007Title and Description of this book is misleading,
May 04, 2007 [...] ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results helps you quickly create dynamic Web pages with ASP.NET 2.0." This description made me think this book would offer "step-by-step" examples of how to go about designing and building .net applications from scratch. In fact, the opposite is true.
This book works in reverse, by offering you several already made applications, then the authors discuss how the applications function, the classes, controls and so forth. The only instruction you will get to "quickly create dynamic web pages" is from yourself, after you have studied all the examples and learned enough to do it on your own!
Now, this is good stuff, don't get me wrong. However, the term [...] instant results" is completely misused when refering to this book. You will not get "instant results" in any way, shape or form. If you are new to programming .net, it will take you many hours of studying to understand the concepts of the applications. If you wish to modify the applications for your own use, again, you will need to understand them first, and this will take time.
But again, it is a good reference to study how to design and construct applications based on multi-tier architecture, which is what you want to use. So, I give it high marks for that. It is a good book. I'm glad I bought it and I'm spending a lot of time with it. Just don't think it's an "idiot's guide" kind of thing. It's not.
Buyer beware,
March 20, 2007 This book is absolutely not for beginner. Do not buy this book unless you know how to set up your Database with Sql Server 2005 and work with IIS. The book does not give any instruction on how to do this. Try to use the example and upload to your site and see what happen. I wonder if the author tried their examples online to see if it works before finishing this book. Chapter 5 is a disaster, after you almost complete the examble, you know that the authorization does not work, you have to go to their site and get the fix. There is no instant result at all but instant of frustration and confused.Programming Language,
August 04, 2006 The only reason I give this book a 4-star review is the fact that I wish it said somewhere in the description that the code provided as VB, and that there was no C# examples.
The examples work very good for the most part, with a few corrections and the publisher's forum for this book is a great source of info. Imar, one of the authors, has been very helpful in helping me translate one of the chapters to C#.
Definitively not a beginner's book.
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