Code samples are full of errors

The authors were apparently faced with an aggressive deadline for this book because it's exceptionally bad, even relative to other MS Press books. Due to the inaccurate writing and poor editing I wasted many late-night hours trying to get the sample code provided for the labs to run properly. Very little of the prescribed code even runs at all, without modification. Corrections for the most obvious errors are published on the MS Press support site but many of the other problems are quite subtle. I'm a decent programmer -- If I do say so myself -- but I had to spend a lot of time on ASP sites researching solutions to all these errors.

The code design recommendations are also surprisingly poor, the type of code one would expect from a very junior developer, possibly someone who's not even cut out for this line of work.

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