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Title: Building an ASP.NET Intranet : by Kourosh Ardestani, Brian Boyce, Chad Hutchinson, Saurabh Nandu, John C. Roth, Chandu Thota, Karli Watson ISBN: 1-59059-256-5 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 14 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.27 (11 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Fair review
Comment: In order to use this book effectively, you really need a good understanding of SQL and SQL stored procedures. The book isn't for SQL Beginners. The tables come from WROX without the identities being set, so you will need to know how to do that. The book also requires a good understanding of stored procedures, you will need to know how to fix the stored procedure if it isn't working correctly. The easy way to work with the stored procedures and all of the changes the WROX programmers made to IBUYSPY is to load their backup database onto your server using a different database name, then import the tables and stored procedures you need into your Portal database. There are some problems with the code that requires revising the name spaces and assembly references to get them to work with the ASPNET Portal, but once modified the code does work well for the most part. I really wish the WROX programmers had spent more time on the RTF piece. I eventually replaced the RTF functionality with someone else's software, but I have to admit that I learned alot about ASP.NET controls by examining the WROX RTF code. The document management piece is worth the price of the book. The documentation really is not very good but if you study the code, you'll learn alot. I disagree strongly with the reviewer who stated this is for people who want code but don't want to learn what it does. If you can make the WROX code work, you're doing pretty well.
Rating: 3
Summary: No CD, broken promise of downloadable code
Comment: I bought this book for 62 Euros (75 USD) in Lisbon that is too much for 450 pages (with promos, content, indexes, images from internet) book without any CD and with broken promise of the downloadable code!
IMHO, there was no need to bloat the volume of a book and reader's tiredness reprinting from internet the lengthy code examples just for the sake of a few modifications and after that again printing, again, the resulting snippets (it is proper only for e-books)
Since the book is oriented for working with codes, the absence of electronic version is also the great drawback.
The book seems to be the monopolist on IBuySpy Portal (the only one available) , but I wouldn't have bought it, had I known about mentioned above.
While the book is useful (in abscence of any other choice, esp. in electronic version), I estimate the ratio "price/worthyness" as extremely high
PS
I was also more interested in C# and/or Visual Studio .NET versions of IBuySpy Portal, and I think VB.NET is just inappropriate language for the middle-, like IBuySpy Portal,
and large-size projects)
Rating: 1
Summary: Another "let's get it published asap" book.
Comment: If you wish to understand the IBUY Portal, don't count on this book to help you. I didn't like the style and structure of this book. I got the sense that this book was just another rush publication with a group of programmers getting together, assigning chapters with desired content and then got down to pulling and writing code.
WROX needs to do a better job of controlling quality and up front planning for their books. Sorry, but this book shows none of that. The design of the existing site was mostly crammed into a single chapter. A decent database diagram was not included and no UML or other diagrams were presented so we could easily understand the Object architecture. Instead, the documentation was simply a straight lift from sql server table descriptions. I found myself drawing my own diagrams as I went through the book. An architect's perspective was desparately needed in this first chapter.
I won't be buying any more WROX books if things don't improve by enforcing good technical writing standards for their publications.
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Title: ASP.NET Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution C# Edition by Marco Bellinaso, Kevin Hoffman ISBN: 1861006934 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: ASP.NET Data Web Controls Kick Start by Scott Mitchell ISBN: 0672325012 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 12 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce by Cristian Darie, Karli Watson ISBN: 1861007507 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 17 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Professional ASP.NET Web Forms Techniques by Alex Homer ISBN: 1861007868 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: ASP.NET Unleashed, Second Edition by Stephen Walther ISBN: 067232542X Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 18 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
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