Simply Terrible. Did ANYONE edit the exercises in this book

I've been a software developer since 1987. I've been doing .Net work since 2006. Most of the asp.net and C# stuff I picked up by reading books and experimenting. I've read many, many teach yourself type books over the years and this is among the worst. Sure, you will learn some things but you will tear your hair out trying to get through the exercises. It's clear that this book did not get close attention from the editing staff and certainly no one actually worked through these exercises. There are fields and properties that are declared with one name and then used with a different name: Example:

Text{ get... set...} and then used in the methods as PalindromeText.

Fortunately, I had enough experience to figure things like this out but a newbie would be hopelessly misled. The chapter on Webparts doesn't mention ANYTHING about the required infrastructure and configuration that needs to be in place in order to use Webparts. Chapter 8 "A Common Look and Feel" is missing steps in both the master pages and themes section.

This is a very shoddy piece of work and if I were the editor and author I would be totally ashamed of this product. No way would I put my name on this work.

Other Reviews

• Disappointed highly
• Simply Terrible. Did ANYONE edit the exercises in this book
• Run, do not walk, away from this book
• This book is useless!!!!