Building Web Solutions with ASP.Net and ADO.NET [With CDROM]

This is quite a good book on real techniques to solve real problems. It's still going to be useful if you use for you're development third party controls and frameworks, you still will find valuable information inside. I wouldn't recommend it for the very beginner that wants a Learn-This-In-1-Hour book (and keep yourself in the ignorance :-)).For anybody else with certain degree of familiarity with the .Net environment, the book is going to be extremely useful.

If you ever wanted a handsdown, no nonsense approach to ASP.NET then go get this book! It's well worth the money. Dino walks you through most of the major controls e.g Repeaters, DataLists and DataGrids. Particular emphasis is given on how to make use of Databound controls, especially DataGrids.Dino makes learning functionalities like Paging, Editing, ItemCommands, Sorting, plus some extra features thrown in - like the chapter on developing your own super grid a breeze. The super grid that was introduced will surely be the template used by every .NET developer.A whole segment is dedicated to the intracacies of the DataSets and how to maximize its usage and the relationship between DataAdapters and DataSet. Those of you who are taking 70-305 tests might wanna take this book a look as well. As I've just completed the test and this book helped alot!As someone who has been developing ASP for awhile this book is indispensable in exposing new techniques as well as breaking old habits that goes with developing on ASP. For example, the usage of StringBuilders, rather than concatenating strings all over your code.Towards the end, there's some fair bit on WebServices and a final introductory chapter on how to write your own DataAdapters, both these topics by right can be a book in it self. So its definately a bonus.In summary. 5 stars mate!

I'm a ASP.NET database developer and this book is filled will many of the examples that I need.If you read or run the code on the CD while your read the book, you will learn at a very fast rate.Way to go Dino. Thanks for all the help.

ASP .NET introduces a new way of web application development, which may not be very intuitive for traditional web application developers at first glance. It strives to boost developers' productivity by providing providing powerful web controls that hide HTML and HTTP related details. I had developed miscellaneous data-driven web applications in ASP, JSP and PHP before learning ASP .NET. This book was my best resource to learn how to implement typical tasks for such applications in ASP .NET because the examples are very practical. Using ASP .NET controls is simple, but the problem comes when you need to customize them. This book won't show you the typical examples included in the Framework documentation, instead it will show you how to combine and leverage ASP.NET Web controls and data-binding controls. I recommend this book for developers with a basic background of ASP .NET and that wish to learn how to develop data-driven web applications using ADO .NET.The code used in the book is in VB.NET, but the CD includes both C# and VB source files. All of the examples assume you are not using VS .NET (e.g. they don't use code-behind mode).

If you are looking for a book that demonstrates some of the more detailed aspects of how to take advantage of ASP.NET and ADO.NET, then you should buy this book. I couldn't stop reading it after I noticed that many of the details that took me a while to figure out when developing my own apps were clearly explained. There are some great pieces of advice contained in these pages. Also, the examples are actually of scenarios you would implement; not just a bunch of the same tired code samples. Don't be fooled by the number of pages either. Once you start into the book you will notice its presentation is very focused and well thought-out.