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by Jason N. Gaylord
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To sum up this book (some may call it a novel or encyclopedia), it contains lots and lots of content. Stephen Walther has followed up on his best selling "ASP.NET Unleashed" book with this release. The original "ASP.NET Unleashed" book was an excellent example of a book that developers could work up from installing and configuring ASP.NET to building enterprise applications. Much like the original, this book starts off by covering the basics and then details how ASP.NET 2.0 works. It covers each of the new additions to ASP.NET 2.0 including, but not limited to, the new data objects, web parts, navigation controls, authentication controls, master pages and themes. Unlike most ASP.NET 2.0 books, this book continues to mention and explain how to accomplish many of the new features in ASP.NET 1.x. For instance, Chapter 20 discusses how to use the new login controls in ASP.NET 2.0 for forms authentication. In Chapter 21 there are multiple examples detailing how to create a login control for forms authentication in ASP.NET 1.x. This book also contains some topics similar books do not including, such as creating your own provider, creating your own custom controls and building AJAX controls.

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Title: Instant Host
Name: seowebmaster5@yahoo.in
Date: 5/18/2009 5:36:04 AM
Comment:
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Title: What?
Name: Guru
Date: 8/28/2007 5:27:30 AM
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Dont do timepass here! ok

Title: Code Slut
Name: Mike
Date: 8/9/2007 4:00:32 PM
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Title: well indeed
Name: Patrick
Date: 7/2/2007 10:02:52 AM
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I think the reviewer was pointing out that for those of us that know C# syntax, it would be nice to have the source in C#. I am unfamiliar with VB.NET and find the syntax for most code very strange. I am NOT saying that one is better than the other, just that I can understand C# syntax. Most modern text actual provide both -- I would not buy this book for that reason.

Title: well?
Name: mark
Date: 10/17/2006 9:38:58 PM
Comment:
c3? VB? this is not the place! is anyone gonna talk about the book??

Title: Re: Jon Nemesis
Name: Jason N. Gaylord
Date: 9/11/2006 11:33:09 AM
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Jon's Nemesis, I think you've been taking some C# pills lately. Don't start any language wars. There will always be a place for each language.

Title: To Jon
Name: Jon's Nemesis
Date: 9/2/2006 9:08:40 PM
Comment:
Lay off the space cake. C# owns VB and day of the week. C# is for real programmers, just wait until 3.0 gets lamdba expressions, something which very few imperative programming languages (save python and ruby) have. Or did you not notice that VB is always lagging behind C# in terms of feature development? Get real.

Title: C# code
Name: Jason N. Gaylord
Date: 8/7/2006 12:01:33 PM
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Mike is correct. The C# examples are on CD. However, CDs can be lost or destroyed so it would be nice if the examples could be downloaded (which Stephen has made available) or shown in the book. I was merely pointing out that if I had to force myself to find a flaw, that would be the only one. :)

Jon, I'd stay away from comments like that. C# does have a purpose and place. If it didn't, it wouldn't exist. Notice that many of the source downloads from Microsoft are still in C# only. The only thing I can add to your comment is the fact that Microsoft has mandated that their examples be written in VB. This is most likely due to their desire to have VB 6 developers switch to .NET (Just my opinion and speculation).

Title: C# code
Name: Jon
Date: 8/3/2006 12:46:43 PM
Comment:
All .net books should be only in VB.

Stick all that C# crap where it belongs, buried on some CD

Title: C# code
Name: Mike
Date: 8/2/2006 6:31:58 PM
Comment:
At the begining of the book Stephen mentions that every code sample is provided in c# on the accompanying CD.

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