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Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB (Programmer to Programmer)
by Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, Devin Rader
from Wrox

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Awesome
  Simply put, this is the best tech book I've read on a topic in quite a while. The authors do a great job of covering almost all important topics of asp.net. For any given topic, the writing is easily readable, thurough, filled with examples, and a mimimum of full. If you want to learn about asp.net 3.5, start here.

• This one Rocks... er... Wrox!!
  Bill, Scott, and Devin really did a great job pulling together key topics in ASP.NET 3.5.
  This book is huge... weighting in at 1,584 pages not counting the online resources and index.
  It basically covers everything any developer would want to brush up on or learn completely from scratch. I was only looking to learn about caching for scaling issues( and it was a great chapter 23), but I learned about so much more. I recently got a new job as a Lead ASP.NET developer and the site I have to fix is... more info

• Uncharacteristically inadequate for a Wroth book.
  I am about a third into this and have found the book to be somewhat disappointing relatively to other Wrox books. My areas of concern include the following:
  - Lots of editing errors, spelling errors, and references to figures that are not what the descriptions suggest.
  - Wrox book strengths are in their good examples. Most of the examples in this book are so trivial as to not demonstrate anything except perhaps syntax.
  - Some topics are not explained beyond the listing of the features and... more info

• Comprehensive ... maybe, too much so
  I use the Wrox Peer 2 Peer books -- such as this one -- basically as documentation. And in that vein, this is a strong entry. But if you're hoping to use this book to learn how to program, you're probably better off with the For Dummies series.
  My copy of this book came directly from Amazon. Unfortunately, it was misbound, with an extra 150+ pages from Chapter 3 pasted into Chapter 8. It's little more than an annoyance, but keep in mind your copy may too be misbound when you get it.
  Very little of... more info

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