Re: Best Asp.net Resources for Newbie

There are basically two types of books for software development: topical and instructional. The instructional are what we can all textbooks like the ones used in a real school. The topical books are better once a person has grasped the fundamentals.

I don't mean to insult anybody by saying so but as a former FoxPro developer such a person knows absolutely nothing about OOP and the way the .NET Framework is put together as a class-based architecture. Therefore as a classroom instructor myself and a perpetual student I recommend textbooks to neophytes as one needs to learn a programming language before using the language with the framework to create applications.

Deitel and Deitel publish the best textbooks while also using the .NET Framework in a topical manner. They're products are more expensive but are worth it and remain useful reference works. I also recommend learning C# as ALL web development requires the use of JavaScript and both languages have been derived from C so punctuation is exactly identical, therefore a student learns two languages for the price of one so to speak.

After learning to use the C# programming language --then-- get into topical books that cover the Object Oriented Programming topics such as Interfaces and so on.

I also recommend a trip to Amazon to purchase a used copy of the now out of print but extremely useful "C# Class Design Handbook" and if you have an extra ten bucks "C# Text Manipulation Handbook." You need to learn the fundamentls of class-based design and that handbook is very very good while text manipulation is going to come in handy too but its classes that are I think it okay to say the fundamentals of OOP.

Finally, remember what the Mad Hatter told Alice when she asked where she should begin her journey to which he replied "At the beginning."

So learn C# first and master the fundamental programming contructs and then get into topics noting the book Nathan recommended is very good but there is little disagreement that Andrew Troelsen has written the seminal topical work "C# and the .NET Platform" which may even be on his 3rd revision as you want to cover C# 3.

Oh yea, note the compiler is currently 2.0, C# at 3.0 and the framework of classes is currently at 3.5.



"Nathan Sokalski" <njsokalski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Oenc5RDVJHA.3908@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Of all the books I have ever read, the best one on ASP.NET is definitely the following:

ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed by Stephen Walther

http://www.amazon.com/ASP-NET-2-0-Unleashed-Stephen-Walther/dp/0672328232/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228190759&sr=1-2

This book taught me everything I needed to know to get started, as well as many details about more advanced topics. Even though I was relatively new to ASP.NET, I had no trouble learning any of the stuff in the book because the author writes in an example-oriented manner with complete examples and explains all of the example. The book and author are very well respected by most people, and I would strongly recommend that any ASP.NET developer have a copy of the book. There is also a version for 3.5 available, and both books have all example code on CD in both VB.NET and C#.
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Nathan Sokalski
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http://www.nathansokalski.com/

"Christian" <foxeverfox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23VN89ECVJHA.4928@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello all,

In past time i develop using Ms Visual Foxpro 9 , It's a great tool for me , now i try to learn Asp.net , Can you help me where i can get best resources ( Article, KB , Ebooks , Sample ) for me to learn ?


Thanks


Christ



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