Should be called "Teach Yourself Visual Web Developer"

I'm only about 1/3 of the way through this book (I just finished hour 8) and am already frustrated with it. It seems to be a book all about how to use Visual Web Developer, not about how to program for ASP.NET. It relies completely on the tool to generate all your code, and rarely shows you the resulting VB.NET code, only the HTML that gets generated once you execute it. If you want to learn how to program in the ASP.NET world, you're better off with a book on VB.NET or C#.NET, as this book doesn't cover it well.

UPDATE 7/23/08 - I'm now finished with the book, and my opinion hasn't changed. This book tells you what ASP.NET is capable of doing (and it's capable of a lot of nice things), but if you don't plan on using MS Visual Web Developer, this book will do you no good. It does not show the code that it generates, only the resulting HTML. Also, I tried using several of the programs the MSVWD created, and they were incompatible with our web server configuration. This code appears to be highly configuration dependent, so if you can't control the configuration of your web server (and I can't for the class I'm taking), this book will help you even less.

Other Reviews

• Very good "pre-intro" book on ASP.NET
• the book review from AskBargains.com
• Should be called "Teach Yourself Visual Web Developer"
• Perfect How To Book