Found a great ASP.NET book

gushing with praise

[txbakers]

For all those interested, I found the Murach ASP.NeT web programming with VB.NET book to be fabulous. Within the first few chapters many of issues were addressed and I was able to actually start thinking about a real project.

I highly recommend the book.

[mrMister]

Perefect. I'm on a massive ASP.Net book buying expedition at the moment. I'll add that to my list.

I have discovered a nice book the other day as well:

Object Oriented Programming with Visual Basic .NET (O'Reilly) (ISBN: 0596001460).

I have had some experience with Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in the past. However most of my programming in the last 7 years or so has been with VB5, VB6 & VBScript.

I find it quite hard to force myself in to the OOP mindset when progra,ming with VB.NEt in ASP.

This book is ideal to help get you programming "properly" with VB.Net. It explains the OOP concepts and how they apply in VB.Net. It's a great eye-opener and by the time you've finished reading it, you'll be awash with new ideas!

Anyone else know of any great ASP.Net books they want to share?

[mrMister]

I had a look at the review on Amazon and it says:

"The first 5 chapters show you how to use Microsoft Visual Studio to design, code, and test multi-page web applications"

I've never been a fan of Visual Studio. I used to use it for VB6 and I still use it when writing command line applications but I wouldn't use it for .NET apps because I feel the visual programming model distances a programmer from his code and makes it far too easy to produce bloated, inefficient applications without realising it.

Do you think this book would still be useful for a non-VS programmer?

[txbakers]

Yes, because the code examples are in the book. You can use a text editor to write the code.

I've never been a fan of GUIs for web development either, but I like VS.NET.

And it's true about the first five chapters getting you up and running. I developed my own ideas from using the default example. Very clean book.