ASP.NET 3.5 Website Programming: Problem – Design – Solution
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* Uses the popular Problem;Design;Solution format to help readers, especially those who know how to code specific ASP.NET features, learn to “put it all together” into a complete Web application
* Emphasizes n-tier ASP.NET Web application architectural design, something intermediate and advanced ASP.NET developers need and can’t find anywhere else
* Current edition is the most popular and discussed book in the p2p.wrox.com reader discussion forums
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ASP.NET 3.5 Website Programming: Problem – Design – Solution
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I am also familiar with the previous edition and this TBH project. The first few chapters of this book are great. The author explains carefully the concepts of the new Entity Framework, LINQ and AJAX very clearly in chapter 3. He also compares his new approach with the previous approach done by Marco Bellinaso, and states that his new approach is a better approach than the previous one (e.g., in page 108 he said “…(the previous technique) is often not done in high-demand production sites and reduces an n-tier architecture to a flat model …”.
Chapter 4 is also good and he introduced AJAX to improve the previous version.
A lot of mistakes & errors start to appear afterward. Chapter 8 (Forums) is deplorable as 80% of the content in this chapter is a direct copy of the previous edition. Even the class diagram in p.402 is totally wrong, with all the functions like “GetForumFromForumDetails()”, which only appears in the previous edition. And the methods in p.405 (strangely in C# instead of vb), GetThreads(), is an exact copy of the previous one, which uses SqlConnection instead of leveraging the entity framework.
I tried to download the C# project code for this book from Wrox’s website, and it is not completed yet, and even with a lot of VB code in it (e.g., Forum.cs)!!!, and it won’t compile.
I hope the author will update this great book and the project code in C# very soon. I also hope that Marco Bellinaso will take over and do it again for asp.net 4.0.
For those who are familiar with the previous edition by Marco Bellinaso, this is a very good book to learn about the new Entity Framework and other things. But if you haven’t read the previous version, you will find it very hard to build the project by just following this book.
Rating: 2 / 5
Because I was familiar with the earlier version of the Beer House project I thought I would take a chance and purchase this book before it had been reviewed. That was a big mistake! Even though the author does a good job of explaining concepts and his design criteria, you can’t build the project from the book alone. Because project details such as what goes where and layout are very vague I found myself getting lost frequently. Anyone trying to follow along and build the project will quickly become frustrated. If you do purchase this book you MUST download the project code if you want to have any hope of building the project.
Rating: 3 / 5
The author of this book came to our town to talk about the lessons learned from developing with the Entity Framework with the Beer House project. It was great, and I had to purchase the book when it became available! He walks you through developing a real-life application in ASP.NET 3.5 using the Entity Framework; no impractical examples here.
Many developers dive into writing an application without giving consideration to the overall architectural concerns that are necessary for a well-designed web application. Chris Love walks you through these concerns from the multiple application tiers to logging, instrumentation, and finally deployment.
I am currently a fan of ASP.NET MVC, but if you’re still programming Web Forms, and many are, this is the book for you.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have been using ASP.NET 3.5 for about a year now and have a few books from Apress and Wrox but was looking to get a more intermediate-advanced book with a real project that could take my skills to the next level. Many of the books that I have found are either pure reference books or they explain different intermediate-advanced topics but hardly give any “real-life” examples that you can really learn from.
This is the only book that I have found that steps you through a real-life ASP.NET Application so that you can learn and implement something similiar at your own work. Of course it is generic, but you can definitely customize it to suit your needs.
I loved the chapter with practical examples with AJAX and seperating your UI from your buisness objects. I never understood those topics until now.
I also teach ASP.NET at a local community college part-time and I definitely am going to inmplement some of these chapters in my classes to my students.
Chapter 1: Introducing the Project: TheBeerHouse.
Chapter 2: Developing the Site Design.
Chapter 3: Planning an Architecture.
Chapter 4: Membership and User Profiling.
Chapter 5: News and Article Management.
Chapter 6: Opinion Polls.
Chapter 7: Newsletters.
Chapter 8: Forums.
Chapter 9: E-Commerce Store.
Chapter 10: Calendar of Events.
Chapter 11: Photo Gallery.
Chapter 12: Localizing the Site.
Chapter 13: Deploying the Site.
A great book on real-life ASP.NET that I highly recommend.
Rating: 5 / 5
I had never used Visual Studio before purchasing this book and it has helped me tremendously! Great purchase.
Rating: 5 / 5