Beginning Visual Web Developer 2005 Express: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional)

by Richard Delorme, Paul Sarknas

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The primary goal of this book is to demonstrate Visual Web Developer 2005 Expresss effectiveness when developing applications. The secondary goal is to examine how coding best-practices can be applied with this new product. Beginning Visual Web Developer 2005 Express provides a rigorous overview of the application: how it operates, how it compares to the other versions of Visual Studio .NET 2005 now available, and the best way to use it.

The authors demonstrate techniques and concepts that you need to build working ASP.NET 2.0 applications. They use real applications based on VWDs Personal Web Starter Kit. They also compare and contrast VWD and VS .NET, and discuss how to overcome difficulties when moving from one to the other. The books practical and goal-oriented discussion helps you maximize VWD Express as quickly as possible. This book does not assume any prior coding knowledge, so hobbyists and students alike will be able to glean valuable information from it.

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Average Customer Review: 2 out of 5 stars

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1 out of 5 stars

Level Beginner - Intermediate ?!, 2007-04-16
I realize how difficult it is to cover a sofware package like Visual Web Developer in just 300 pages. Nevertheless this is not a book for beginners. Understanding of HTML, Visual Basic, SQL and OOP is a must if you want to get something out of this book.
I have found the book to be dissorganized and jumping from topic to topic; at least I can not follow the logic from the authors. For instance out of the blue on page 8 a code example of a class is given. The example is explained in just one page.
Also the needed software to get started is not clearly pointed out from the beginning; more downloads are mentioned as needed. A CD would definetely have been handy.
Chapter 2 covers the graphical interface in detail; I would have preferred this to be condensed to make room for more critical information.
The code in the book is hardly explained and essential commands and topics are not explained at all; for instance 'handles', 'events', 'runat' just to name a few.
Overall very dissapointing and I would rank this zero stars if I could.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2 out of 5 stars

Rush job, LOTS of mistakes, 2006-12-10
Originally, I had purchased a WROX book of the same subject matter. It was horribly painful to read. So, I made sure that I spent time reading some of this book prior to buying it.

The good news is that Sarknas does a really great job at explaining the high-level theoretical concepts and gives a great walking tour of VWD. However, when it comes to the details and the tutorials, this book breaks down. I found a dozen errors in the few few pages, some crucial errors. I wrote to the publisher listing a lot of the errors and asked if there was an online update. Their reply was basically to wait for the 2007 edition.

I think Apress rushed this book out before Microsoft even finished delivering the product because some features of the software don't even exist - Microsoft changed direction and does not support SQL Server Express Manager, for example. So, I'm stuck trying to figure out alternative techniques and procedures to accomplish certain tasks so I can stay up with the tutorials.

I think by the time I'm finished I could probably write my own tutorial. I've found myself going back and forth between the Wrox book and the Apress book in an attempt to piece things together. Rick Delorme, the technical reviewer, obviously didn't go through the tutorials.

Very disappointing. My two star rating is generous.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

3 out of 5 stars

Good Starter Book..., 2006-08-19
A little basic, but as usual with Microsoft related books, goes over the IDE in minute detail with naming conventions, but not really explaining what it can do for you. It goes on to explain the basics of form programming, but be sure to add a book to add database capabilities.

14 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1 out of 5 stars

INCORRECT DIAGRAMS & NO SCRIPTS ON WEB SITE, 2005-12-20
THIS IS BAD NEWS!!!! LOTS OF INFO LEFT OUT, PICS IN BOOK DO NOT CORRESPOND TO SCREENS OF VWD, BOOK SAYS DATABASE SCRIPTS ON WEB SITE, BUT NOT THERE. APRESS IS STARTING TO LOOK LIKE "WROX" AND THAT AIN'T GOOD!!!!!

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