Beginning ASP.NET 4.5: in C# and VB

What can I say about this book... it's a pretty good introductory book. I was introduced toit as a text for a Visual Basic course I took. At first, I found it a bit difficult to read becauseback then I didn't have the basics of CSS, SQL, or coding down yet. Now that I have gottenthose skills under my belt, I find this book very informative. I feel it progresses very well.The first twelve chapters are spent introducing you to the Microsoft Visual Studio softwareand the features it contains in the Toolbox section (specifically the Standard section).Chapter 13 was by far the most difficult chapter to read in my opinion because it is denselypacked with information. Chapter 13 is entitled "Displaying and Updating Data" and explainsthe difference between DataSource and Databound objects. Although this chapter isinformative, I found myself having to go back and reread certain sections that weren't clearto me. Nevertheless, this book is good for any entry level programmer (C# or VB) wantingto learn about ASP.NET. But I must warn you, you should have basic knowledge andexperience with CSS, SQL, and some kind of programming language (whether C#, Java,or VB). Having these will greatly determine whether you finish or put it down.

This is a great beginner's guide to ASP.NET though I recommend knowing C# or VB before using this book. Or at least, be familiar with programming in general. It makes connecting .NET to the code behind a lot easier to understand, and may be overwhelming if you are a complete beginner. In my opinion, it will take you a lot longer to understand the examples without being familiar with it, though not impossible to understand.This book is in-depth enough that you can take concepts like AJAX, Content vs. Master Pages, and SQL and know enough to start and complete a project. As someone who already had a few projects for C#/ASP.NET under his belt before buying this book, I still learned some pretty valuable things and ways to approach design.The only thing that you have to know before you buy this book is it pretty much assumes you read it linearly to get the most out of it. Each chapter sequentially adds to an ongoing in-book project and jumping in the middle may reference code or snippets built from previous chapters. Jumping straight to Ch. 9 about AJAX for example may leave you a little lost and confused though there are very detailed code snippets to provide examples. With that said, even though I was familiar with ASP.NET/C# already I still read the book from page one to end and still found it very informative. It just doesn't really serve as a reference book other than "How did they do that again?" type question. However, the book doesn't really advertise itself in this manner so it wouldn't be fair to expect this book to serve as a real reference.One other note about ASP.NET 4.5 and C# / VB in general is that development is starting to trend towards .NET MVC so it may be worth learning that over traditional ASP.NET 4.5 instead. But they both work together so there is still value in this book.

I rented this book for my masters level web programming class. It arrived in very good condition. I like how the book keeps things simple with step-by-step Try It Out activities in each section. This is a great method of instruction for hands-on learners. The concepts behind each activity are fully explained with free access to downloadable files that show the results for each Try It Out. The code is available in free downloadable files if you don't want to type it in yourself, which is convenient for those Try It Outs that require vast amounts of code. Equal emphasis is given on C# and VB, but my class was strictly led using the C# language. I am nearing Chapter 9 and have yet to run into any points of confusion within the material. I do recommend following each Try It Out in the order that it is presented in the chapter, or you risk getting coding errors.

I'm a senior web developer in another language and picked this up in order to learn asp.netSuperb book. Read right through it and understood almost everything without having to read it twice (unusual).This book is just an overview (from a senior coder's point of view) and most subjects are only touched on. Touched on well enough that I can build real projects but I will of course need to study further (I plan on going through the "Pro" book next.If you have never built web sites before and / or have never done any programming it will be very difficult to get through this book. Recommend you read up on HTML and study JavaScript or C# first. The syntax for JavaScript is close enough to C# that you will be able to follow along. IMO you need some background in web development and C# to really benefit from this excellent book.

Not only does Imar Spaanjaars know his subject he's a great writer.This is a step by step book that takes you through creating a web site. He takes his time and does it in small understandable chunks to help you to understand what the code does, and why it does it. He repeats some of the information so that you know what he is saying and so that you can understand it, and so that you don't make common mistakes.I really like that he does one web site through the whole book so that it builds up gradually. You learn the essentials and go up. I feel confident that I could actually create my own web site on my own.Although I didn't get this book to actually create a web site, I got it to learn the nitty-gritty of the process. I have an Arduino project that needs some web code and Ajax that I couldn't figure out on my own. And finally, even though I'm 71 years old and have been a programmer for most of my life, I still learn this stuff and this book was just my speed.Highly recommended. And thanks, Imar.

If you're starting out from scratch - this is the book to help you learn how to build a fully functioning, robust website.You definitely need Microsoft's Visual Studio Express 2012 For Web to get the most from this book...I downloaded the Visual 2013 version at first and found, bit by bit, that what I got on my screen gradually diverged from what the book depicted...So I downloaded Visual 2012 and everything went exactly as it should according to this book.(You can have both versions of Visual on your computer-but only use the 2012 version with this book).The author-Imar Spaanjaars-has a very methodical approach and introduces things in a clear way. He knows all the little quirks of the system that can often throw someone new to website building. As you work your way through the book he guides you neatly through all the tricky hoops and hurdles building a website entails.It's a complicated area that deals with a variety of programming languages and uses a host of different sources to construct the website but hemanages to make it all comprehensible to the beginner. I initially started out learning C++ with Microsoft's Visual Studio Express For Desktop.If that is like drawing up blueprints for a machine, house or whatever, this is the actual on-site building of the machine, house or whatever where you draw together all the materials you need from variety of sources to build what your single blueprint has sketched out.It's worth noting, too, that all the code used in the book is presented in both C# form and Visual Basic. There's not a lot of difference between the two languages but if you know one better than the other it is extremely helpful.The book has great pictures of what your screen should look like at almost every point during the construction of the example website and the downloads of source codes and resources (very easy-just a few clicks on the appropriate bit of the Wrox website) are extremely useful as you can easily see where your own code has gone wrong.One suspects that, if you were building your own website, you wouldn't necessarily use all the ways and means detailed in this book but, that it covers so many, equips you with sufficient tools to decide which are the best ones for building your own, particular, website.Imar Spaanjars has updated this book ('Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1 in C# and VB') and for that you will need to use the 2013 version of Microsoft's Visual Studio Express For Web. The updated book covers the same ground in the same way but makes adjustments for changes since the 2012 version was released.

Excellent book so far - I shall look out for more by this author

Well written book, takes you through the creation of a sample website with easy to follow tutorial sections written for both C# and VB. Easy to follow and should be a good reference.

This book is brilliant, and I already had the previous version, but I wanted to use some of the newer software such as SQL server 2012, and this book allowed me to do so. Brilliant for anyone who is trying to learn ASP.net

Livro para quem não sabe nada de Asp.Net WebForms.Ele explica WebForms implementando um projeto do início ao fim, fazendo isso através de explicação seguido de exemplo prático.Dicas: - não baixe o projeto,implemente-o no decorrer dos exemplos práticos (mesmo que seja copiando do exemplo) - não invente, seja ingênuo até acabar o livro. Depois de acaba-lo, será muito mais fácil criar.