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Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 Databases Beta Preview Review by Leslie Earl Prigmore
This book wasted my time and totally frustrated me!
I have never taken the time to write a review before, but I can't ignore this one! I can't understand how this book got so many 5 star reviews! I can't believe that these reviewers were even familiar with the content of the book and its poor examples! I can only surmise that they might have an agenda of trying to increase sales by misrepresenting the product. I started the book at the beginning and suffered until about page 110. By then I was so frustrated that I couldn't continue. Approximately 20 pages out of 400 cursorily address middle tier business objects which are really the meat of database access. Usually the examples are very simple and will work. But they are so simple that they teach very little. The examples are repetitive in that they direct the reader to recreate a web form that is a minor alteration of the previous example. The learning would go much faster with a lot less text if the reader were simply directed to add the feature to the previously created web form. If the example has any complexity, it probably doesn't work, there are comments in the code that the author apologetically says that he will explain later in the book but without a clue as to where. It is far too much work to publish a book! I am sure that the author put a lot of work into it! His efforts were wasted! It appears that the book was rushed to press without planning the order of topics presented or proof reading. I don't know if this book is a reflection on other WROX books but I will be cautious about procuring another. Sorry guys, this is not meant to flame any entity but to create an awareness or consciousness of accountability for product quality. With some additional effort this could have been a much better book! On a much more positive note, I have now moved on to "ASP.NET 2.0 - A Developer's Notebook" by We-Meng Lee and feel much more productive. I can recommend it!