Book recommendation

  • Thread starter Thread starter John Smith Jr.
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my personal favorite is Essential ASP.NET...
excellent book which gives you a lot of behind the scene info on how it
works
 
I tried that book, but the samples appeared broken. For example the
databinding.
There wasn't even a web.config in the directory like the docs said, and when
you looked in the source code (ones that had two connect string calls) one
call tried to use web.config, the 2nd call was typed out and you had to edit
it.

It also looked like the version changed dramatically at some point as the
sample docs looked out of date.
 
Actually never tried the code samples.... the book by itself has code
snippets and for my purpose a snippet serves the purpose...

Plus if you know the basics... you just need pointer innit...
 
Well, I didn't get many recommendations, but I ended up going with O'Reilly
Programming ASP.NET. So far seems to be a good book, I like the bug
database example they have for database access and controls. Looking
forward to going through the examples. Although I already did some db work
with asp.net, still trying to get a handle on datalist/datagrid/repeaters.
 
datagrid/datalists are covered in sufficient detail by scott mitchel in his
book on datagrids. His book came from his site so you can browse his site
first
 
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