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ASP.NET in a Nutshell, Second Edition Review by S. Tang
Fairly good structure; Mostly for VB.NET programmers
I concur with other reviewers on the following points:
1) The organization is good and focuses strictly on the relevant web classes in .NET.
2) The documentation, however, is more or less a repeat of ASP.NET information from MSDN. In a lot of O'Reilly Nutshell books, the authors typically add more insight to the classes they cover that the official documentation does not. With this book, I really did not get that impression.
If you need an offline version of the MSDN documentation, this is great. Another detraction is that the book does not come with a documentation add-in CD like the other .NET in a Nutshell books.
3) The most egregious fault with this book is that the authors do NOT tell you that the book is mostly in VB.NET syntax. I'm trying to learn C# and the book's latter parts is all VB.NET. I really wish the authors were upfront about this, so I could save myself some money. *sigh*
Future ASP.NET Authors: If you're going to write about ASP.NET, please specify, somewhere on the cover or in the introduction, the language you will be using for examples.
C# programmers may be better off reading other ASP.NET books, which usually are in C# (or at least tell you upfront which language is being used).