Programming Microsoft ASP.Net 2.0 Core Reference

Even though I haven't finished this book (not enough time in the year), it's a very well written book. Not too hard to read, but complete and covers a ton of information. Highly recommended.

This book lives up to the "core reference" designation. Although I've been developing w/ ASP.NET 2.0 since Beta 2 (and worked with v1.x for 3 years prior), I learned new things from this book. It's a great foundation, even for those who are familiar w/ .NET - but I think it would be accessible even to a newbie. Definitely a book I'll keep hand during dev work. I can't wait unitl the "Advanced Topics" counterpart is ready to ship!

I have been programming ASP.NET for 3 years and my knowledge was increased by Dino's book: Programming ASP.NET (ISBN 0-7356-1903-4). This new book, Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 has a lot of promise of learning what is going on "under the hood". While all this information is good/nice to know, it isn't what an experienced ASP.NET 1.1 developer needs to know day one toward learning what is new in ASP.NET 2.0. I would, rather, recommend Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 upgrader's guide (ISBN 1-890774-35-9) to get you up to speed very quickly to the new features in 2.0. It is like looking at the earth from 50 miles high whereas Dino's new book is at the 1 mile level. It is good, no, very good but when your making a living at laying code you don't have time to stop what you are doing and learn new versions (every year or two). That's why I recommend Murach's book for a first look into 2.0 and then Dino's book to fill-in the details. By the way, excellent work Dino!

Greetings, I'm a ASP.NET 1.X programmer; I used Fritz Onion "Essential ASP.NET with Examples in C#" as a reference. "Programming Microsoft ASP.NET Core Reference" exceeded my expectations; it does explain the main features of ASP.NET Framework, including the compilation model of aspx pages, the HTTP Pipeline, the ASP.NET implementation of the strategy pattern and etc. Explains also the implication of using Master Pages and content Pages in the compilation of a aspx content page. I recommend this book to everyone that works with ASP.NET.