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Beginning ASP .NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005: From Novice to Professional

Format: Paperback
Author: Cristian Darie
ReleaseDate: 17 October, 2005
Publisher: Apress
Rating:

Magnum Opus
The title is a little misleading (in a good sense) as the book not only covers ASP. This book is a masterpiece.NET but also the basics of SQL Server and ADO. NET programming. This book is not for a novice though. You need a good grasp of the fundamentals of . NET Framework, ADO. NET and ASP. NET. A lot of areas are touched upon including T-SQL programming, ADO. NET programming, Serialization, Cryptography, Credit card payment integration, Web Services and ofcourse ASP. NET. As suggested by one of the reviewers, there is tons of code to write but when you complete the book you would have gained a lot of knowledge and surely be pleased. Easily one of the best books that I've read. Deserves more than a 5 star.

Best code you'll ever find.
The thing I can add about this book, and all of the other ones Cristian has written is this: When ever you look through his errata sections for any corrections to the books, you'll mostly just find corrections to the paragraphs with descriptions, and not the code. There's not much more I could add to these reviews, because they are the exact same thing that I have been telling every one concerning this book. It's as solid as it gets, solid as it gets. Most books that I own have at least two very garish errors, or typos in the code examples it's self.

In all his books you'll find the best practices you could ever find, so it's almost recomended to pick up this book (or the PHP version of the same book) when initially learning ASP. net 2. 0, because you'll learn a lot more in a lot less time than reading tomes on the details and theory that a lot of the other books offer.

The man is better than a master of his craft, and his books are some of the best books you'll ever read world wide. He makes even the hardest technical chalanges fun and friendly, and in the end, you'll feel encoraged to want more.

Good comprehensible book
I am a Java programmer and to me all that was the same idea with different syntax. The book is truly for a novice, but only newbies to C# and not, say, Java, will survive chapter 3 of the book. In order not to get lost in varioius detailes of different C# object, the reader must be well familliar with OOP principles. Experience with other OO programming languages will undoubtedly help.
Other than that, which is typical of any programming book, the book is very informative and well organized. The author does a good job explaining various possibilities for working with databases in C#. I really like it. Recommended.