Before purchasing this book, you should know that the author expects you to have been exposed to the skills taught in Murach's Beginning Visual Basic.Net.



Having said that, this book is written in an easy-to-follow format that led me step-by-step toward the skills needed to become the most knowledgeable ASP.Net developer on my team. It hits every subject I've been exposed to at work, making it an excellent reference as well. This book also helped me to strengthen my object-oriented development knowledge.



One of the biggest advantages of this book over others is that it taught me how to develop using Microsoft Visual Studio ("VS"). Unfortunately, learning ASP.Net using Notepad instead of VS is like learning to drive using a go-cart instead of a car. Almost all employers expect their .Net developers to know their way around VS. With this book, you're covered.

Before purchasing this book, you should know that the author expects you to have been exposed to the skills taught in Murach's Beginning Visual Basic.Net.

Having said that, this book is written in an easy-to-follow format that led me step-by-step toward the skills needed to become the most knowledgeable ASP.Net developer on my team. It hits every subject I've been exposed to at work, making it an excellent reference as well. This book also helped me to strengthen my object-oriented development knowledge.

One of the biggest advantages of this book over others is that it taught me how to develop using Microsoft Visual Studio ("VS"). Unfortunately, learning ASP.Net using Notepad instead of VS is like learning to drive using a go-cart instead of a car. Almost all employers expect their .Net developers to know their way around VS. With this book, you're covered.

Before purchasing this book, you should know that the author expects you to have been exposed to the skills taught in Murach's Beginning Visual Basic.Net.

Having said that, this book is written in an easy-to-follow format that led me step-by-step toward the skills needed to become the most knowledgeable ASP.Net developer on my team. It hits every subject I've been exposed to at work, making it an excellent reference as well. This book also helped me to strengthen my object-oriented development knowledge.

One of the biggest advantages of this book over others is that it taught me how to develop using Microsoft Visual Studio ("VS"). Unfortunately, learning ASP.Net using Notepad instead of VS is like learning to drive using a go-cart instead of a car. Almost all employers expect their .Net developers to know their way around VS. With this book, you're covered.

I recently got hold of a copy of this book (full title: "Murach's ASP.Net Web Programming with VB.Net") and it is terrific. In particular, it includes the best walkthrough and problem solver of using IIS I've yet seen - and I know from the Forums that this very early step causes a lot of people a heap of problems. (Me included at one time! )

The book uses a technique of having the main narrative on the left hand page, backed up by important summaries and/or diagrams on the right hand page. This can be quite useful for reinforcing those particularly tricky areas and is handy for flipping back to when you need to recheck something. Overall, I think it works great.

I recently got hold of a copy of this book (full title: "Murach's ASP.Net Web Programming with VB.Net") and it is terrific. In particular, it includes the best walkthrough and problem solver of using IIS I've yet seen - and I know from the Forums that this very early step causes a lot of people a heap of problems. (Me included at one time! )

The book uses a technique of having the main narrative on the left hand page, backed up by important summaries and/or diagrams on the right hand page. This can be quite useful for reinforcing those particularly tricky areas and is handy for flipping back to when you need to recheck something. Overall, I think it works great.

I bought this book in hopes that the author would clearly explain building the halloween shop sample application from the ground up, but after chapter 1, the author totally loses you as far as next steps are concerned.
The first chapter has actual "excercises" which get you started in building the sample application. After that, most chapters don't contain these exercises, therefore you have to build the rest of the application based on the screen shots/code snippet's in the chapter.

I bought this book in hopes that the author would clearly explain building the halloween shop sample application from the ground up, but after chapter 1, the author totally loses you as far as next steps are concerned.
The first chapter has actual "excercises" which get you started in building the sample application. After that, most chapters don't contain these exercises, therefore you have to build the rest of the application based on the screen shots/code snippet's in the chapter.

Simply said: One of the best books I have ever bought!

I needed to dive into ASP.NET pretty fast because I had a project running to its deadline. I was a programmer who knew Visual Basic and Delphi pretty well. I did know the theory of ASP.NET but had no practical experience. This book teached me in a record time how to build and get my first web application up and running.

The best starter's book you can imagine. The second book I bought on the subject was ASP.NET Unleashed, which is a marvellous book if you have some ASP.NET experience.

For a beginner Murach's book is simply a dream, and although I have written a couple of web applications now, I still use it as a quick reference. WORTH EVERY PENNY IN GOLD.

Simply said: One of the best books I have ever bought!

I needed to dive into ASP.NET pretty fast because I had a project running to its deadline. I was a programmer who knew Visual Basic and Delphi pretty well. I did know the theory of ASP.NET but had no practical experience. This book teached me in a record time how to build and get my first web application up and running.

The best starter's book you can imagine. The second book I bought on the subject was ASP.NET Unleashed, which is a marvellous book if you have some ASP.NET experience.

For a beginner Murach's book is simply a dream, and although I have written a couple of web applications now, I still use it as a quick reference. WORTH EVERY PENNY IN GOLD.

I have never been so irritated and frustrated by a book in terms of its presentation and format. If any newcomer is able to follow along with the tutorial application and actually build it, I'd be very, very surprised.

I just do not see the point of having the book's text on even pages and a bulleted review of that same text (along with code) on odd pages. There's no mention of how to code the HTML portions, you have to already know how by looking at some screen shots. There's just no follow-through from chapter to chapter as the author grows the application.

I'm still searching for a book on ASP.NET that walks the reader through the construction of an actual, useful application from A to Z.

As a teacher of ASP.NET, I have tried several textbooks. I always like a textbook that supplements my teaching rather than dictates it. Murach's ASP.NET does just that and is an excellent book for teaching web programming because of its format.

The left-hand page explains a particular concept while the right-hand page illustrates the concept with code snippets that are easy to understand. My students get frustrated trying to sift through long sample programs to find the few lines of code that illustrate a given point. With Murach's code snippets, the code is easy to understand.

The authors also use code-behind instead of embedding code via the ASP.OLD style. Not many books do that, thus giving this book a rich, more modern approach to the way ASP.NET programming should be done.

The more I read this book, the better it gets.

The book is a good reference for either beginnner or expert ASP.NET developer. It has the depth and provides a very detailed description of several aspects of ASP.NET, covers all major topics - controls, validators, state management, session, security, ADO.NET programming and simple HTML tutorial. The weakness is not a deep presentation of VB.NET, web services, XML, .NET framework in general.

I am a Jr. level programmer with 3 years experience with developing web apps in ASP 3.0. My skills are strong with ASP 3.0, mostly because of Wrox Beginning ASP 3.0 book. Sure, I have read a bunch of books and have gotten into COM, etcetera... The Wrox book gave me an excellent description of low to mid level abilities of ASP 3.0 and gave me nice examples for which to begin my education. I was hoping for the same with the Murach's book, unfortunately that is not the case. They market it as saying, "no other book teaches you some much so fast." Well, that is not the case, the 688 page book has a few paragraph's on the left page and a picture, or a couple line code snippet with a brief bulleted list summarizing the following page. So I would have to say I learned absolutely nothing with this book.

My hope was that these authors could provide me with strong solid basis so I could get in to developing. Eventually, I purchased the Microsoft press book for the 70-305 exam, and to tell you the truth, that book was magic compared to this book. The Murach ASP.net book doesn't even have general examples, it has code snippets and coding from an e-commerce site which you can download from them. Well there isn't any commenting, so for a Jr. level developer it ain't easy!

This book is for a mid-senior level VB developer that needs to learn ASP.net in a weekend. For beginners of programming, no way, for junior programmers, not worth you time or your $40. I know I spent 2 days trying to connect to my SQL Server to read an SP and it shouldn't be so tough. Yes, I did get it to work, but only after reading an example from the Microsoft book. As for the sections, the form validation section wasn't horrible, but the rest of the book was. I kind of think of this book as a PowerPoint presentation, not a reference or a tutorial.

I imagine my situation is a bit different from most other reviewers. I teach a Web programming course at Indiana University. I have always employed some form of Visual Basic, but it has varied over the past few years as new Microsoft technology has become available. Now that we can use Visual Studio .NET, Web development with ASP.NET has become much easier to teach. Still, a good textbook is a must, and a great one is that much better -- for me and for the students.

With this relatively new addition to the Murach series, I think I've found the best book out there. Granted, there are some worthy competitors, including the two ASP.NET books by Stephen Walther I've use in the past, but this book by Prince and Lowe is just what I've been looking for. It is written extremely clearly, it covers all of the basics and then some (plenty for an introductory course in Web development), all of the source code is downloadable and serves as a model of clean coding, and it comes with an instructor's guide (in complete contrast to most of the "trade" books on ASP.NET). If you've ever taught university courses and have been evaluated by your students, you realize that they almost always never give a very good rating to the required textbook. I'm confident that this not be the case with this book. I think the students will love it.

This book does presume knowledge of VB.NET, more than my students are likely to have. Therefore, I am also requiring Anne Prince's companion VB.NET book. Packaged together, they should provide my students with loads of practical reference material.

As good as this book is, I hope the authors will revise it appropriately when ASP.NET 2.0 comes out officially. From what I've seen, this new version will introduce rapid development tools that are just too good to ignore. I know I'll eventually incorporate them in my course.

I am very experienced with VB.NET and other programming languages, but new to any form of ASP. I didn't like this book very much. There is nothing wrong with the information, but it is not very well organized.

The early chapters mix basic and more advanced information in the paragraph. He often presents stuff that I am in no postion to understand until more basic concepts have been covered. He also introduces concepts that I will not use until much later. I would rather learn about something and use it immediately. Other topics can wait until I have to use them.

I can learn ASP.Net from this book, but it seems like a lot more work than it should be.

Also, his habit of repeating the same thing on the left and right page annoys me. I suppose some people like the instant review