ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code

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ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code

Of thethree ASP.NET books SAMS Publishing had on the market at the time of thisreview, ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code is by far the best.

Spreadacross 19 chapters and three appendices, you'll find more new material - andmore interesting discussions of .NET concepts - than in any other SAMS book.From concepts like ASP.NET coding and page techniques, to debugging, caching,state management, and even mobile controls, Tips, Tutorials, and Code isa good overall reference. I especially liked Scott Mitchell's contributions.Among them are sections that explain the generation of on-the-fly graphics,reading and writing to the Windows event log, and reading and displayingvarious Windows performance counters in an ASP.NET page.

If youfind yourself scratching your head about the caching options available to speedup an ASP.NET site I recommend taking a look at Donny Mack's coverage of thistopic found in Chapter 15. It's one of the most thorough discussions of thetopic I have seen anywhere (including the Internet).

I expecta book on ASP.NET to go further than the quick-start tutorials shipping withthe .NET Framework SDK and to not contain a lot of useless filler material. Tips,Tutorials, and Code is such a book.

- ThomasWagner

ASP.NET:Tips, Tutorials, and Code by Scott Mitchell, Steve Walther, Doug Seven, Donny Mack, ChrisPayne, Billy Anders, Adam Nathan, Dan Wahlin, SAMS Publishing, http://www.samspublishing.com.

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ISBN:0-672-32143-2

CoverPrice: US$49.95

(878Pages, CD-ROM)