I read the rave reviews and bought the book. I cannot get the Chapter 3 exercise to load despite trying all the obvious permutations. I wonder if this book was sufficiently road tested.

Found the book very easy to read. Book offers clear, concise and exhaustive coverage of all aspects of ASP.NET 3.5. Murach has been my favorite programming book publisher for years.

Over the past couple of years I've become aware of the Murach series of books which fill a definite need for a complete coverage of a subject.

This book, Murach's ASP.NET 3.5 Web Programming with VB 2008, is no exception.

While it would be impossible to cover everything about asp.net in any book (nor should anyone try), this book covers a wide range of topics that will give the reader a very good set of knowledge and tools to develop almost any conceivable website.

It does start from almost the beginning with html and procedes with actual examples and a growing project through the various server controls, navigation, validation, formatting, data access, security, ajax and custom controls.

The reader should have some familiarity with programming and related concepts but beyond that a new person to .net will get a very practical education with this book. There is a lot of information packed into the 1000 pages!

I picked this book up at my local store the price is better than many others on the same scale. The information included is a great start for beginners and will be a nice desk book for people who already know ASP.Net but want to learn 3.5 or need a book that covers a wide array of topics.

I'm my job I review hundreds of books a year. I only publically comment on the really good ones and this one is super !

If I were going to teach a course on ASP.NET Development in VB, this is the book that I would use. It's complete, well written, up to date with all the latest ASP.NET technology, and aesthetically pleasing !

Joe Stagner
www.MisfitGeek.com

Considering 2 of the other 3 reviewers have rated every book they have rated as a 5 star rating and one of those has only rated Murachs books....I would suggest you throw them out.

On top of that, had I caught it before I bought the book, I wouldn't have bought it on principle alone for it appears that Murach is trying to stack the reviews.

As far as the book... Overall, this book has some good information but it is still mediocre at best. I would keep searching....

Outstanding !!
Product was exactly what we expected.
Service was great, we ordered, you responded, Book was delivered (much quicker than we expected).

An innovative and exciting website is a great way to attract customers. "Murach's ASP.NET 3.5: Web Programming with VB 2008" is a highly complete and comprehensive training and reference guide to those seeking to have total mastery over the program to better assist their company. It covers how to create one's own program from scratch using Visual Basic 2008 and using ASP.NET features to enhance one's own programs and how to do it professionally. Enhanced with an index and appendixes which cover the changes Windows Vista brought to the to field, "Murach's ASP.NET 3.5" is a must for community library computer collections.

This is a big book (999 pages) with a lot of technical information. The "paired pages" format is used in this book: how-to on the left page and examples on the right. This style contributes to the effectiveness of the learning process. ASP.NET 3.5 has many new and improved features which contribute to quicker and better web applications. This book starts off showing how to use Visual Studio and ASP.NET (158 pages). The next section (204 pages) covers HTML, managing state, master pages, and other need to know knowledge. Section 3 is devoted to data access including SQL, data controls, object data sources, and LINQ. Security, authentication, personalization, custom error pages, AJAX and much more is in Section 4. Custom user controls, custom server controls, and web services are discussed in Section 5.

There is a lot information in this book. It is well suited for both training and reference. Highly recommended.