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Reviewed: September, 2009 |
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Reviewer:
Will Blacklock
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Murach’s new book covering ASP.NET 3.5 with C# 2008 is an excellent resource
for newcomers to ASP.net and a nice quick reference for junior ASP.net
programmers, but it won’t satisfy midlevel or experienced programmers.
The book is a perfect introduction to ASP.NET and
provides an extensive foundation for aspiring ASP.NET developers, but they
will quickly find themselves moving beyond the examples offered in the book.
I wouldn’t recommend the book for programmers moving from ASP.NET 2.0 to
3.5, because it doesn’t point out new features and a ton of the material
will be old news for those programmers already familiar with ASP.NET.
Murach has a unique style of dividing tasks over two
pages with the first page a text description while the facing page shows
examples and code implementing the task. The technique offers a great
reference, but it is restrictive in providing only a shallow introduction to
many complex topics.
Of course, with the overwhelming amount of material the
book has to cover it simply can’t offer more than an introduction to ASP.NET.
For that task, it does an excellent job and will get any newcomer or
beginning programmer up and running quickly with a solid foundation of
knowledge.
It also shows newcomers how to maneuver around Visual
Studio and set up webs sites, giving them a solid foundation of best
practices to build their skills. Within the first 100 pages, the book has
the reader set up a basic web site with core features like forms with
validation controls and session state. It gives the reader solid examples
and practical information, while rewarding the reader with measurable
progress. Other massive introductory books don’t give the reader the
immediate, practical results that Murach provides.
It does cover a huge swath of ASP.NET technology
including securing, deploying and configuring a web site, as well as AJAX,
developing custom server controls, LINQ and web services. With so much
ground to cover, it can only skim most of the topics even with 970 pages of
content.
It does carry you through building a web site with
session state and a shopping cart, so a newcomer to ASP.NET will find this
an invaluable resource that offers the fastest way to get started, but a
seasoned programmer will only find a few pages of the massive book
worthwhile.
It should be pointed out that Murach has the exact same
book for Visual Basic programmers and back-end developers will find
“Murach’s ADO.NET 3.5 Linq and the Entity Framework” books a much more
in-depth resource. They also come in separate versions for C# and VB. |
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