ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code Book

Web developers using Microsoft server platforms will migrate to ASP.NET for its combination of greater functionality combined with greater ease of use.ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials and Code is intended to provide a complete tutorial and reference for existing ASP developers. The book is laid out in roughly the order you'd want. It starts with the vast difference between the procedural script approach to page creation in classic ASP and the Web control based approach in ASP.NET. You then go on to ASP.NET code techniques, field validation and so on taking in XML usage, error handling, security, browser support and even backward compatibility along the way. It's all extremely thorough with plenty of coded examples. The emphasis on real-world Web-development issues rather than theory is welcome. As is the workshop section at the end of each chapter which gives you a chance to try the material and check your understanding of it. On the downside, the large number of authors--clearly assigned different sections--result in a book which lacks the continuity you get from a single viewpoint. This occasionally makes it hard to follow. It would have benefited from a more consistently structured approach to topics. However, the technical editing is good.In many ways ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials and Code is a book ASP.NET developers will want to dip into for information on specific areas rather than to read end to end. New users will do better with Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET In 24 Hours. --Steve PatientRead More