The Ultimate VB.NET and ASP.Net Code Book

by Karl Moore

Book Overview

Have you noticed that the majority of .NET books seem intent on hiding you from real-world code? You can buy a 1,500-page draft excluder, study it intensively for a month, and still be none the wiser as to how to write basic programs. This book isn't like that.

You'll discover ways to obtain Microsoft code and save hours of development time; you'll uncover the truth behind creating fast programs that run on anything from PDAs to mobile phones...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590591062
• ISBN13: 9781590591062
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

great book for source code, but not for beginners

You can find great code snippets and how-to's in this book, which will save you time for sure. However, this book is not for beginners.

Understand the meaning of this book.

This is a great book with the intention of showing real world tools and tips to fast track any developer. The emphasis of the material is to help developers looking for those tricks we all spend hours and hours trying to figure out. It's NOT a reference book, it's NOT a step by step book. It's a book for a somewhat experienced programmer looking for quick answers. We always miss our tricks when moving to a new platform...Karl has figured out those asp/vb6 tricks for us in VB.NETGolden!!!

Fantastic Tips, must have for new .net developer

The best thing about this book is that it tells you how to do simple tasks that you WANT to do in .NET. Everytime I think of something, from file uploads in ASP.NET to using the registry or event log, this is your one stop "I do I do this now book.I give it 5 stars and definetly recommend this book.

Buy it even if you are a C# coder!

I'm a Karl Moore fan after reading this book. It contains so many useful code snippets that I didn't want the book to end. While some of the examples can be found online in other people's tutorials, Karl's pellucid explanations and sample code make this publication worth purchasing. The Ultimate VB.NET and ASP.NET Code Book is the only Visual Basic .NET guide I have bought; translating the code into C# is easy and is certainly worthwhile considering the usefulness of the code examples. No matter what your level of .NET proficiency may be, check out this latest work by Karl Moore. I think you will like it!

Fantastic follow-up!!

I've been a fan of Moore since his first book, and this is a fantastic follow-up. This book is a real bible for anyone working with VB .NET and ASP.NET.It starts at the beginning, with a warm introduction to anyone new to the world of .NET. Then it gets down to its no-nonsense method of delivering "secrets". Each chapter is split into two sections... the "Essentials" and the "Secrets".The Essentials briefly clues you up and provides short bullet points to refresh your memory and straighten out any difficult points. Then the Secrets section gets into the real juice, explaining all those real "nuggets" of information that you only find out about once in a blue moon... like how to create programs that automatically update themselves, or where you can download a program to auto-write your code for you, or which parts of the .NET Framework contain bugs and how to work around them.This is SUCH a refreshing change from the usual trashy Wrox publications, which simply seem intent on explaining the theory, or telling you how to install the thing, or how to create simple programs. This provides absolute real-world code to use instantly.It covers everything from Windows development, Web development, Web services, C# - and everything else a developer needs.Plus, make sure you download the source to go with this book. I did and it's got a few extra code chunks.