Book Reviews

i need about the asp.net(c#)'s ebook

profyw — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:50:38 GMT

i need about the asp.net(c#)'s ebook,it's free.who help me??

mvcBooks.help to chose

net.pro — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:36:49 GMT

Hi,I am new to asp.net mvc and I need help.

What is best way to learn mvc?

I have these books:

1.Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework

2.ASP.NET MVC in Action

3.ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly

4.Wrox: ASP.NEt MVC 1.0 Website Programming Problem-Design-Solution

5.Wrox: Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0

What to use first? You can also write order how you would rate these books,what is best for mvc begginer?

For example: 5,1,3,4,2 (this means book number 5 is best choise for start and learn mvc,next is book number 1,and so on).

Or is better way to use tutorials online?

Thanks

CSS e-book

Suchi — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:44:01 GMT

Hi,

I want to know the names of good CSS books for learning purpose and whether they contain unsolved problems at the end of each chapter. And also whether they are available in e-book format ? It will be of great help.

videos better than books?

Nelson85 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:53:02 GMT

Do you think videos are better than books?

ASP.NET Theory--Recommend books?

ricksolie — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:46:33 GMT

Can anyone suggest any books to help me understand how ASP.NET works from a a high-level theoretical perspective? I don't need a tutorial or a "Beginning..." or a reference book but I would like to understand how the XHTML I write interacts with the server to produce the HTML I see on the page, how and when postbacks occur, and so forth. I'd like the same for C#, similar to but not as compressed as the official language specification. I've already written a successful (if simple) ASP.NET/SQL Server application but feel as if I'm wandering around in a forest whose dimensions and nature I didn't understand even if I'm able to identify some of the trees. I need the "big picture" and any help would be much appreciated.

Book Recomendations?

silverkm — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:23:46 GMT

Hey,

I have been out of the loop for a while. Last book I read cover to cover was sitepoint build your own asp.net site (the 1.1 version). I really enjoyed this book, and I did read some pro asp.net 2.0 in c#.

I am looking for a book that would be a good starter, geared towards a intermediate / skilled beginner. Would prefer something that is tutorial based (build a site while going through the book).

Any recomendations would be appreciated. Thank You

MVC in Action book

hasselhoss — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:03:44 GMT

Has anyone checked out the ASP.NET MVC In Action book? I know early copies of the book are available. I was hoping someone could give me some feedback about it and how it compares to Steve Sanderson's Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework book.

Suggest me a good ASP.net and C# Book

bhaskar.cool — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:51:37 GMT

hi guys,

can anybody suggest me a good asp.net and c sharp book

thanks,

Bhaskar K

Can anyone recommend a good book for both ".Net Framework" and "WCF"

m111222 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:25:34 GMT

Can anyone recommend a good book for both ".Net Framework" and "WCF"

Ajax Book

wicomm — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:54:23 GMT

I am looking for a good book on Ajax for beginners. Can anyone recommend one that is still pretty in-depth?

Books on ASP.NET 3.5 with VB examples

Thralkin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:45:07 GMT

Does anyone know of any good books on ASP .NET 3.5 with VB examples? I searched a bit on this site and found http://www.wowebook.com/e-book/dot-net/asp-net-3-5-unleashed.html but all the examples are in C#.

Also, I want to get my hands on a good JavaScript book if anyone knows any good ones?

Good VB MVC Book?

igavemybest — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:13:56 GMT

I was looking at getting the following book because it also contains VB code (what I use). But then I read the following review. Is this persons review accurate? What book would you reccomend for MVC VB?

REVIEW

"I was so excited to find a comprehensive book on ASP.NET MVC which included examples in VB, and I dived in eagerly. My hopes soared, but it all came crashing down early in Chapter 2. The author uses a data-access model called "Entity Data Models" or some such. After wasting most of the day trying to figure out why nothing he was describing actually appeared among my VS2008 options, uninstalling and reinstalling half my MS updates, and clicking on dead links at microsoft.com, I've realized that it was all some fly-by-night Microsoft gimmick that they quickly abandoned and are trying to pretend never existed. Since everything else in the book is built from these "entities," the examples in the book are essentially useless. It's too bad, and it marks the end of my dalliance with MVC. Microsoft has wasted enough of my time, and I am way behind schedule with nothing to show."

is there any good book talks about....

nisarkhan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:33:48 GMT

i'm wondering to see is there any realy good book talks about enterprise application like how you go on creating laywers in your app (repos/service/model/etc....)

please let me know - thanks.

video training course

Nelson85 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:51:09 GMT

Which is the best video training course available to learn asp.net?

Review of NHibernate In Action

welzie — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:37:41 GMT

The book "NHibernate In Action" has been out for over 6 months, but I finally got around to reading it. Here my pros & cons, suggestions for who should read this book and helpful nhibernate links. Please let me know what you think about my review and/or nhibernate.

http://blog.codehangover.com/nhibernate-in-action-book-review/

Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework (Apress) by Steve Sanderson

bmains — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:38:07 GMT

Rating: 5 out of 5

I believe Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework is one of the best books on the market about MVC. This book is crammed with a lot of information that you need to know as a developer. While he doesn't cover each subject fully (no book really does that), he does cover the major topic points related to MVC in-depth, and touches upon the other concerts that you need to be aware of to implement or customize MVC for your own purposes. I’ve broken up my review into several major subsections related to the book and analyze each one individually. From an overall level, I think the book really did well in its explanation and examples of MVC.

Book's Knowledge

This book is really crammed with lots of valuable information. I find myself referring back to the book when working with MVC, because it has a lot of various important sections about how to use JQuery to dynamically change MVC partial views within a view, how to customize the creation of a controller, and other important facts. There is so many small or medium details regarding the MVC framework that is important to know about covered in this book, that it does really make it a very beneficial book.

The chapters on each major feature (views, routing, controllers, etc.) are very long, which is great because they contain so much information about each of the subjects. I was really impressed with the information packed into each of these chapters. After reading the book, I felt comfortable enough to work on MVC and understand some of the concerns when implementing MVC for my own applications. I felt there was minimal downtime trying to play with MVC to understand its inner-workings; I really felt confortable jumping in.

Writing Style

I really like Steven's ability to clearly articulate points about MVC. If the writer is not fluent, I tend to lose interest, but I didn't lose interest at all in this book. This book doesn't just talk about the functionality, but actually illustrates its use through examples and theory, which is important for such a big subject. That's not to say he doesn't explain his code, which he does in the right amount of detail.

Content Structure

Though a pro book, the author ensures that he covers the basic prerequisites for the book, to fill in the user how MVC works. The book continues on with three chapters of a sample MVC application, explaining it some as he goes, following up with most of the book detailing each features.

The main complaint of the book that I have is that Chapters 4, 5, and 6 cover the basics of creating an MVC sports store application and tries to get you familiar with MVC by jumping right in without a lot of preliminary discussion. While he does discuss what he’s illustrating, I feel it would have been helpful to cover the documentation of the features first, and then rolled through the example last, with a bigger/more complex example.

The plus to this design is that the sample walks you through the basics, and the subsequent materials enhance your understanding of routing, views, controllers and actions, data entry and model binding, AJAX and client-scripting, and security.

I found much use alone out of the chapters on using AJAX to use an unobtrusive JavaScript approach and the concerns to have with implementing security (since ASP.NET web forms handled certain security features for you automatically and MVC does not).

Implementation

While I do have a deep technical background, the concept of MVC is somewhat foreign to me; I had a familiarity to the pattern, but didn't know anything about the product. After reading this book, I felt very confident about my ability to create an MVC site. There were some curveballs and I had to reference the book again and again, but I felt overall that this book was a fantastic resource to get me going. It's the only book I read on the subject (outside of the NerdDinner resource provided by Scott Guthrie).

ASP.NET WEB Service Related BOOKs

kabir.khan.net — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:06:00 GMT

I have been trying to find the asp.net web service book for framework 2.0 but every book i found on amazon is like either published i 2001 or 2002, so my question is, Is there any good asp.net webservice book pubished recently like say 2006/07 or newer ?????

Any recommendations will be appreciated!

Thanks

Ecommerce books and examples

praveenpatnaikj — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:04:50 GMT

I need E commerce best books and examples to develop e commerce project in asp.net c#

Magazines

Luckbox72 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:35:16 GMT

Does anyone have subscriptions to .net magazines, or do you simply get info from the web. For most cases I have been using the web for articles and new technologies, but I would be willing to subscribe to a magazine if any are any good. Just looking for some recommendation or is it just as easy to search the net?

-Eric

Recommended ASP.net Beginner Reading

Myersra — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:18:23 GMT

I am starting the ASP.net journey. I have an immediate need (by Sept 1) to have a database driven application, but I expect it to be the first of many applications, so I am looking for a good "quick start" kind of book, but one that builds a good foundation to build on. I have some VB knowledge (still consider myself a novice) so I will likely use VB syntax. Site will be hosted with EZ Order Domains so SQL management and server management is relatively easy.

Remember, while your probably a pro, I am a rookie at this, so start me out with easy to understand/follow reading. Tutorials and code samples are a plus.

Search Engine Optimization

sreekanthv56 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:14:23 GMT

Hi ,

I want Search Engine Optimization with asp.net ebook can u tell anybody the link of this ebook.

Books On Reporting

KenMcLean — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:18:19 GMT

What is the best book or article for learning how to create reports that run in local mode using Microsoft Reporting Services and Visual Studio 2008?

Ken McLean

Need a good book on code organization

renasis — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:50:36 GMT

Hello,

I am looking for a good book on how to structure a VB.Net ASP.Net application. In particular, with regards to namespaces, classes, and files in the app_code folder. I would prefer the language be VB.Net, but C# is acceptable to. Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

-renasis

asp.net 4.0, libraries, etc

cdell — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:40:22 GMT

I have a working knowledge of asp.net and C#, self-taught as needed. I'de like more knowledge to be more competitive in job searches. For instance, one job requirement is "intimate knowledge of .net libraries."

Can you suggest a book that has the ins and outs of asp.net, preferably up to date, maybe with 4.0?

Edit: interview questions like these scare me, as I'm inexperienced http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNETInterviewQuestions.aspx

while these I'm semi-competant with: http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/articles/254.aspx

ASP.NET 3.5 book for a beginner

Nelson85 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:39:53 GMT

Can you recommend me the best ASP.NET 3.5 book for a beginner?

Thanks you.