Microsoft® ASP.NET 4 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) at Dominant Systems Book Store

Teach yourself the fundamentals of Web development with ASP.NET 4-one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you get the guidance and learn-by-doing examples you need to start building Web applications and Web services in the Microsoft Visual Studio® 2010 environment. The author-a highly regarded programming expert, writer, and instructor-illuminates ASP.NET features through practical examples that help developers quickly grasp concepts and apply techniques to the real world. The book also includes a companion CD with code samples, data sets, and a fully searchable eBook.

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Customer Reviews & Comments
I'm a professional .NET developer who reviewed this book for a colleague as an introductory book. One would assume that the title "Step by Step" would indicate one or more tutorials for building data-driven websites using ASP.NET, but it does not. This book is poorly organized, spends too little time introducing the basic controls, state management, site structure, security and data connectivity. It spends too much time on minutia such as the differences in the pipelines of IIS versions 5 through 7, the low-level request and response architecture of the ASP.NET framework, rendering models, control trees, HttpModules, Silverlight, WCF... all which are important, but not to a developer who has yet to drag his first TextBox and Button controls onto page. And... Enough already on contrasting Classic ASP vs. ASP.NET. Most of the younger developers I work with were in high school when Classic ASP was in its heyday and most of us ASP old-timers already know the difference.

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