internet applications

I am an ASP web developer with no knowledge on .Net. With the philosophy of "A job is as difficult as the tool you have to do with", I pick up this book and hoping to learn the tool for .Net Development. Beyond my expectation, this book jump started my .Net development instantly. I was able to explore the power of VS Studio .Net 2003 i.e. the Comment and Uncomment, Server Explorer and the Data Tool features. In addition, Chapter 10, 11, 12 and 13 on ADO.NET, XML, and WEB SERVICES blew me away with the author's examples that exposed the power and ease of development with Visual Studio .Net 2003. Email responded from the author in a day when I ran into a slight problem with the C# code on Chapter 10. This book also came with the author's great web site. In there, I was able to find all the up to date errata and source codes for the book. Plus, the author's website has many valuable resources.

I was intimidated by the .Net Visual Studio IDE, but this book really helped me to understand how to use it. I tried most of the sample code and did not have problems with it. It is a very pratical book. I'm reading it a second time since last year to more fully understand this complex topic. Good job.

I bought this book a while ago but I am now just going through it for my new job. I am about 2/3 of the way thru and while it does have some good information, the code samples are complete and utter TRASH!! My god if one simple application of his actually worked without hours of figuring out what HE DID WRONG I would believe Bush is an intelligent man. Stay away from this garbage -- the authors website doesn't work either so basically you're screwed.