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Pro ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming Review by CindyLu
You've got to get this book!
With all due respect to the reviewer who panned the book because, in his opinion, VB is "not the choice of professionals", may I suggest that if the front cover of the book states that it is written using VB, you would do well to expect that it is indeed written in VB. The subtitle specifies "Learn indispensable tactics for building solid, secure, and maintainable ASP.Net 2.0 web applictions using Visual Basic 2005", and Damon accomplishes this goal admirably.
As one who has been programming for decades, but am new to the .Net world, I'm very grateful to the author for the splendid job he has done getting the reader up to speed on the essentials of developing a ready-for-prime-time web application. I've spent hundreds of dollars on ASP.Net 2.0 VB books, and you would be hard pressed to find any other one that so clearly lays out how to take full advantage of the built-in 2.0 technology for things like building shopping carts with a minimum of code and integrating them with the supported user profile structure. I work for a small company where I am the entire IT department and the work load is staggering. If you're like me and you need to come up to speed quickly using best practices for 2.0 VB, then you've got to get this book.
One more thing I have to say - I was totally amazed by the professionalism of the author. I wrote him with an inquiry, and he obviously spent a chunk of time researching to come up with a same-day gracious response (AND rewrote some of the code in the book, zipped it up, and sent it at 2AM!). Which means that not only is he a first-rate author, but a nice guy as well.