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Beginning Visual Web Developer 2005 Express: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional) Review by Filiep Samyn
Level Beginner - Intermediate ?!
I realize how difficult it is to cover a sofware package like Visual Web Developer in just 300 pages. Nevertheless this is not a book for beginners. Understanding of HTML, Visual Basic, SQL and OOP is a must if you want to get something out of this book.
I have found the book to be dissorganized and jumping from topic to topic; at least I can not follow the logic from the authors. For instance out of the blue on page 8 a code example of a class is given. The example is explained in just one page.
Also the needed software to get started is not clearly pointed out from the beginning; more downloads are mentioned as needed. A CD would definetely have been handy.
Chapter 2 covers the graphical interface in detail; I would have preferred this to be condensed to make room for more critical information.
The code in the book is hardly explained and essential commands and topics are not explained at all; for instance 'handles', 'events', 'runat' just to name a few.
Overall very dissapointing and I would rank this zero stars if I could.