Microsoft ASP.NET Fast & Easy Web Development

by Nitin Pandey and NIIT

Active Server Pages allows programmers to write less code when the need arises to pull and format information from a database. This development guide covers the key uses of ASP especially in Web... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931841462
• ISBN13: 9781931841467
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Course Technology PTR
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Very easy to read, covers all the important details

Ignore the other reviewers, don't know what they're talking about.I'm a professional programmer who selected this book because I was under a deadline for an ASP.NET project and knew nothing about ASP.NET. I bought Sams ASP.NET Unleashed (1200 pages) first, and found it really hard to decipher--as a beginner. For one thing, Walther prefers Web Matrix over Visual Studio, which I found utterly irritating (no VS.Net projects). Finding solutions in this book is a long-term prospect, and I'll admit it's got the details I'll need to learn eventually. But for getting up to speed quickly, this little gem of a book by Pandey does a great job.The author succeeds with simple writing (short sentences that are easy to consume), while still covering "enough" of the technical details to get the job done. There were many things I wish he'd covered in more detail, like how to connect to IIS without FP Server Extensions, and how to debug an ASP.Net app (skips over that subject with barely a mention), but then again, a lot of these things are assumed to be set up already by an ops/lan/sa, so this book doesn't deal with config, which is okay. I don't mind that. If I'd had my system running IIS in the first place, I would have learned much more quickly. I highly recommend that you install IIS5 on your Win2k/XP box while learning, and not try to do remote development while learning.I'm reading this book through a second time before passing it on to a junior member of the team, and will soon dive into the ASP.Net Unleashed book again. I thoroughly enjoyed it and appreciate Pandey's easy writing style. He speaks to you, rather than preaching AT you, and doesn't condescend...he explains stuff patiently and politely with no assumptions.