Customer Review: I find it hard to believe the other reviews aren't plants by the publisher, or by people accidentally reviewing a similarly titled book. The introduction is full of documentation probably dumped from MSDN about obscure directives and their obscurer attributes. It reads like a phonebook. Writing the... more info
Customer Review: As context, I programmed in classic ASP and had experience with Java and VB.NET prior to purchasing this book, but I had not really worked with ASP.NET. I found this book an easy read, very clear, and broken up nicely to that I can use it as a reference. The examples are especially helpful, as they... more info
Customer Review: This is a nice book for people who have the basic idea of ASP.NET. This Book covers almost all topics for .Net2.0 . It is a very good reference book for newbie.
Unfortunately, this book isn't in-depth for lots of topics, basically it just introduces most common cases, and you probably can't... more info
Customer Review: Being a novice programmer, I found Silverlight 1.0 a great overview of the functionality of Silverlight. I especially liked the code details and visual examples the authors used to illustrate key features using multiple methods from a basic text editor to the Expression Blend application as well as... more info