Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Step by Step (Step by Step Developer) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

This book did help me initially as I studied through the book. There is a lot of unnecessary detail however. My disappointment with the book concerns the latter chapters which deal with HTTP Handlers, Dynamic Data, WPF, MVC and a few others. The chapters fail to explain the concepts clearly. You are basically reading language which is pitched at an advanced level and asked to perform examples without understanding what the examples truly do. All you really end up knowing is that there is a certain feature and this is what it looks like when it is working, rather than "This is how to do this". So you would basically be clueless if you wanted to implement the feature in an application. I think the book would be good if it stopped at the end of Part II. So I can definitely say I did learn from the book, but it failed in the more advanced topics since it was more like 'show-and-tell' and less like teaching.

This book was OK and I did learn a few things, but then in chapter 22 (on MVC) the author leaves a number of key steps out, and the screenshots don't match the content. It means you can't do the rest of the tutorial as everything is based around the GetAllReferences() method. While the text says to put the method inside the DotNetReferencesDataContext class, the screenshot shows the method inside the DotNetReferencesManager class, and all the method is doing in the screenshot is `getting` a property inside the DotNetReferencesDataContext named DotNetReferences. I am assuming there is logic inside the `get` accessor of this property to construct the IQueryable collection, but this property is never discussed. Very confusing for a beginner. Expected better from Microsoft.

Having studied with or recommended over 20+ Microsoft Press Step-by-Step books I can wholeheartedly say that this is quite possibly the worst one.Insufficient and minimal guidance on setting up and testing your training environment, constant generalised steps that describe rather than show you the task to complete within the step and countless errors make this unusable.Check the comments for this book over at amazon.com.Avoid at all cost!!!

This is a good book for anyone with little or no experience of ASP.NET. It does assume some familiarity with web development - or at least, that experience would be useful - but the biggest problem is the number of typographical errors. There are also inconsistencies between the book (written whilst using a pre-release version of Visual Studio) and what you will see on the screen. Often this can be confusing and especially so for a novice.Overall, not bad as an introduction to ASP.NET programming but only scores three stars due to the poor quality of the proof-reading.

I was expecting this book to be like the one that is named C# step by step... This book is not in order and the author did not explain the examples clear so I don't recommend this book. So sorry, I just bought this because I have the c# step by step book and that one is very nice. I thought the book's structure was the same.

This is really a bad step by step microsoft book, MSoft should be ashamed for publishing a book on this important topic.The author does not really have a step by step, and skips over many of the details which are necessary.

The text and examples were very clear and easy to understand. You can follow the instruction when doing the examples yourself and learn in the process.

I'm a professional .NET developer who reviewed this book for a colleague as an introductory book. One would assume that the title "Step by Step" would indicate one or more tutorials for building data-driven websites using ASP.NET, but it does not. This book is poorly organized, spends too little time introducing the basic controls, state management, site structure, security and data connectivity.It spends too much time on minutia such as the differences in the pipelines of IIS versions 5 through 7, the low-level request and response architecture of the ASP.NET framework, rendering models, control trees, HttpModules, Silverlight, WCF... all which are important, but not to a developer who has yet to drag his first TextBox and Button controls onto page.And... Enough already on contrasting Classic ASP vs. ASP.NET. Most of the younger developers I work with were in high school when Classic ASP was in its heyday and most of us ASP old-timers already know the difference.

That's what this thing should be called.It's difficult enough to pick up new programming skills without having to stop and figure out what steps are left out of EVERY exercise.I just finished chapter seven, covering Master Pages, Themes and Skins. The "Quick Reference" section at the end of the chapter, which is supposed to quickly recap doing the things covered in the chapter, is all about WebParts and WebPart controls, whatever those are. I don't know because the book hasn't covered them yet.This thing is egregiously badly done, somewhere between incompetent and fraudulent. I'm doubly disappointed as I've had good experiences with other books in the "Step By Step" series.I'm done with it. I'll try one of the other books suggested in one of these reviews.I fervently suggest you do the same.