Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB

Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB

Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB

This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to build rich and interactive web sites that run on the Microsoft platform. With the knowledge you gain from this book, you create a great foundation to build any type of web site, ranging from simple hobby-related web sites to sites you may be creating for commercial purposes.Anyone new to web programming should be able to follow along because no prior background in web development is assumed although it helps if you do have a basic understanding o

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  1. James Skemp "JamesRSkemp.com" Avatar
    James Skemp “JamesRSkemp.com”
    73 of 77 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Imar does it again, March 28, 2010
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    James Skemp “JamesRSkemp.com” (Madison, WI United States) –
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    This review is from: Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB (Paperback)
    While I’ve already read Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 by Imar Spaanjaars and moved rather far beyond it, when I had the opportunity to recieve his new book on ASP.NET 4 for review, I took it.

    Would I still feel strongly about recommending his work as *the* #1 choice for those new (or relatively new) to ASP.NET? Would it offer enough new content over the previous iteration that I’d recommend a new purchase if someone had the first?

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    First, if you’re just getting started with ASP.NET, this is once again *the* book to start with. The way the book reads makes it extremely easy to keep up with where he’s at, and why. At the end you’ll end up with a functional site, having built it yourself, using a good deal of ASP.NET functionality.

    The book also assumes little experience with HTML and CSS, which makes this book a fairly good start for anyone who wants to get started with creating Web sites (using ASP.NET), even going into the developer tool Visual Web Developer 2010.

    The book itself is a *vast* improvement over previous iterations, with a much more solid wrap and softer (but still thick) pages. (Although the pages must be somewhat thinner, since the previous iteration of this book is about the same depth as this one, even though this has ~70 more pages.)

    The guitar on the cover has left me guessing a bit, all the way from ‘rock star’ to ‘hero’ to ‘he creates a music-related site’ but if you don’t get stuck on such things, you’ll be fine.

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    If you’ve purchased and read the previous iteration of this book, Beginning ASP.NET 3.5, you might be wondering if it makes sense to pick this up.

    The only new chapter is one on jQuery (although Microsoft AJAX is still covered and used as before), and it’s primarily an introduction, which fits within the context of this book. Crawling the jQuery site for a little while will probably get you up to speed just as well. Otherwise, the rest has been updated to ASP.NET 4 and the current versions of software; little else has changed.

    If you picked up the previous iteration and couldn’t get through it, then don’t bother with this, as it’s quite similar. Likewise for if you’ve moved beyond Beginning ASP.NET 3.5, and feel comfortable with the technology; ASP.NET 4 isn’t dug into so much here that you can’t get the information elsewhere with some basic searching.

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    To conclude, Beginning ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB is *the* book I *highly* recommend to get started with ASP.NET (3.5 or 4). Imar knows the technology as well as how to teach it, from beginning to Web site created. 5 of 5 stars.

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  2. Sébastien G. Avatar
    Sébastien G.
    29 of 32 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Amazing book if you want to start learning ASP.NET 4! A must have!, May 21, 2010
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    Sébastien G. (Canada, QC) –

    This review is from: Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB (Paperback)
    I really loved this book! This book is so amazing, i don’t know where to start!

    You actually learn a LOTS in the book even if its a starting book for ASP.NET.
    Actually, ive learned more than expected! This is the first time i buy a WROX book and
    i am impressed!

    I am a PHP web developper that wanted to learn ASP.NET so i already have a background
    in web programming but you do not need to have a background in order to read this book!

    It is so easy to read and the information is so interesting that each time you turn a page
    you want to learn and know more !

    Here, a list of the positive things i found about the book :

    – Lots of great examples step by step with a section that explain you the whole process each time.
    – Code are written in both C# and VB.NET.
    – Very comprehensive writting. The author explain everything and make things clear!
    – Very informative even if you are an advanced user in ASP.NET.
    – The book cover a nice project which go from a subject to another easily.
    – The book refers others book in the WROX collection which is useful if you wanna extend your knowledge later and
    i really appreciate this cause sometime you never know where to look at after you’ve read a book! It refer to others place
    if you want to dig into advanced subject later which is really great!
    – After you’ve read the book you know how to make complete website using AJAX and JQUERY along with databases!
    – Cover LOTS of subject, even cover AJAX and JQUERY.

    Since nothing is perfect, i have only one constructive remark about the book :

    – I know that this book is not intended to be a reference book but this still would be interessting
    to have some reference section somewhere. This reference section could hold the important informations in a chapter so you
    don’t have to dig inside each page in order to get some important stuff that have been mentionned. But well this is not really
    a problem but that would help from memorizing everything. But since its not a reference book this is not a problem at all!

    Overall :

    If you looking to learn ASP.NET 4 and don’t know where to start, get this book! Do not look anywhere else.. just GET this book!
    I really recommand it !

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  3. Douglas A. Drake Avatar
    Douglas A. Drake
    26 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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    Easy to understand and incredible customer service, May 4, 2010
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    Douglas A. Drake (San Antonio, TX United States) –
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    This review is from: Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB (Paperback)
    First off, this is one of the best instructional books I’ve ever read. Imar has a way with explaining things that makes it easy to follow and understand. But it gets even better. I had a question on something that was related to one of the topics in the book, but it wasn’t covered specifically. Imar’s email address is in the book so I thought, well maybe, if I emailed him, there was a slim possiblity that in a few days he might answer the question. Less then 10 minutes after I sent the email I got a return email with the answer to the question. I was amazed!

    He did ask that I post my questions to the forum in the future so that if others had similar questions he could just point them to the forum instead of answering the same question over and over. The forum also gives other readers a chance to learn from each others questions. So that’s the way I’ll address any questions in the future, but I have to say I am very impressed.

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