With this lively, eye-opening, and hands-on book, all you need is a computer and the desire to learn how to create Web pages now using Visual Web Developer Express Edition! Featuring a full working edition of the software, this fun and highly visual guide walks you through a complete Web page project from set-up to launch. You’ll get an introduction to the Microsoft Visual Studio® environment and learn how to put the lightweight, easy-to-use tools in Visual Web Developer Express to work right away--building your first, dynamic Web pages with Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0. You’ll get expert tips, coaching, and visual examples at each step of the way, along with pointers to additional learning resources.

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All right for some things, but overall useless-get the free version - 2006-07-03
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What some people seem to fail to mention is that there is a free version of this available from Microsoft. All you need to do is register your copy of Visual Web Developer (Express Edition is free). However, this book's title suggests that it will walk you through the process of Building a Website in a short amount of time. Instead of Enabaling the reader to build the site, this book shows some tips. However, the book never really claims to be anything more. In fact, in the "Wbo Is This Book For" section, the book says it is for people who have used the program to build a few websites, but found it difficult. It is not for absolute beginners, and does not touch on VB or C#, but it never claims to. Because both this and the similar Visual Basic: Build a Program Now! are free, and with extra content as an e-book, I reccommend getting those versions, and not buying this. Download this book, and use it to learn a little while you wait for your copy of some other VWD book (I reccommend VWD for Dummies, one of the few good For Dummies books in my opinion).

How NOT to write a beginners book - 2006-07-01
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This book is a disgrace. It is a mish mash of information which is all probably ONLY useful to those who have experience in creating websites using this tool. As a beginner to Visual Studio this is an absolute disappointment. Despite the fact it purports to take you through the entire process it does NONE of this, merely giving you the completed site and letting you work it out on your own. In the front of the book I read that the execises would lead you through the process..WHAT A JOKE!

Dont buy this book, unless its a going away present for someone you have fired or your ex!

Build a website NOW! - 2009-06-04
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The book is great. Just what I needed to get started in web development. The book is easy to read, the examples are easy to understand and follow, and the tone is fun. The ad for the book was accurate. The price was well below the value, a great deal. The service was excellent.

Not like the other "Build it NOW! books. . . - 2007-09-08
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I'm sorry to say that this book is the weakest in the "Build it NOW!" series. A few weaks ago, I worked my way thru an excellent book titled, Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition: Build a Program Now! (Pro-Developer), which teaches concepts as you build several projects in a very hands-on step-by-step tutorial. I was expecting a similar experience from this book, Microsoft Visual Web Developer(TM) 2005 Express Edition: Build a Web Site Now! (Build a Web Page Now). I was disappointed. I just finished the book last night. It left me feeling like the author was rushed to get the book to press, only led me thru the general concepts of implementation, but didn't complete my experience by walking me thru specific steps to build a finished working project. The back cover on the book misleads the purchaser into believing it is the same as the other "Build it NOW!" books - IT IS NOT!!

On the positive side, this book is a pretty good introduction and overview to the features of the tool Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. There are several examples in the book which are a high-level overview of "how to" perform general tasks in the tool...but as I previously stated, this book will not lead you step-by-step to build a final working project. This is sad, because there is a sample web site included with the book, called ContosoMagic, which is a Magician's Web Store. Unfortunately, the book makes little reference to this sample code and not until half-way thru the book is it mentioned at all. As a purchaser of the book, I expected the book to walk me thru step-by-step building the ContosoMagic web site, similar to the other "Build it NOW!" books. I was disappointed.

My opinion - the book is a good first draft of what could be an excellent tutorial if it was edited to the completion of the other "Build it NOW!" books. As currently published, the book may leave you feeling empty.

Don't judge a book by it's cover - 2007-07-29
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The cover looks great, that's why I bought this book. I was thinking of publishing a book and really liked the form factor of this book.
-Don't judge a book by it's cover.--
Yeah I knew that, and I actually read this book after reading an O'Reilly book on ASP.NET and a Wrox book on ASP.NET. In essence the MS book covers the same topics as those other two books with much less detail and more colorful pages. The section on data bases is not very helpful for an independent web developer. The MS Now! book on C# has a great introduction to databases if you are interested in that.
Also my printing was missing at least two chapters, and it didn't look like a printing blunder.
Ok, don't buy this book if you want a good ref, but if you are not into books get this one, and look up everything online.

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