The most up-to-date and comprehensive introductory ASP.NET book you'll find on any shelf, Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008 guides you through Microsoft's latest technology for building dynamic web sites. This book will enable you to build dynamic web pages on the fly, and it assumes only the most basic knowledge of C#.

The book provides exhaustive coverage of ASP.NET, guiding you from your first steps right up to the most advanced techniques, such as querying databases from within a web page and tuning your site for optimal performance. Within these pages, you'll find tips for "best practices" and comprehensive discussions of key database and XML principles you need to know in order to be effective with ASP.NET. The book also emphasizes the invaluable coding techniques of object orientation and code behind, which will start you off on the track to building real-world web sites right from the beginning-rather than just faking it with simplified coding practices.

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Worth the money - 2009-05-31
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The book teaches you exactly what it says on the cover. Not only has this book taught me the beginning of Asp.net but it helped me get a job a year later.

Excellent book, truly took me from novice to well, aspiring professional - 2009-05-15
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It's been 10 years since I last programmed, so this book was a perfect level of introduction to C# without getting so basic as to teach all the OO concepts etc, then on to the architecture of an ASP.NET application, the key classes of .NET and then stepping through each level of building an ASP.NET application with just enough detail. Unlike many technical books I didn't find myself asking how they did something because the author skipped it. At 1000 pages I had to be patient and actually read through the whole thing and do the examples, but that has lead to a decent understanding of not only how to do something, but how it works. Highly recommended.

The best technical book I have read - 2009-10-12
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I have read so many technical books over the last 25 years. This book is extremely well organized. Mr. MacDonald really spent time organizing what went into the book and how it is presented. For someone experienced in development but new to ASP.NET, this book is awesome and will get you the foundation you need to be on your own in no time. I would recommend this book over all other intro books I have seen.

Good reading material - 2009-06-18
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If there is such a comprehensive book in the J2EE world, J2EE will be less painful.
Even though I prefer J2EE over .NET, I have to admit that this book ramp up the skill of .NET developers faster than any other J2EE books for J2EE developers.

If you know this stuff, you don't need it, if you don't, it doesn't help - 2009-06-03
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The book assumes you are already a VB or other higher-level language programmer just being retooled and that you are ignorant of HTML. I have 10 years of ColdFusion experience but can't look up such things as how to read a cookie or query string or output data from the master page code behind page in the master page itself. I am online right now to find a better book. I also have the C# book from this series. Same thing.

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