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Review title: Horribly out of date
Product review: This book needs a more current edition and fast. Written in 2004, this book covers ASP.NET 1.1 and early ADO technology. Even some of its best advice is no applicable. They actually discourage collections in favor of arrays - something that is inconceivable in .NET 4 with LINQ and Entity Framework.Even forgiving the outdated advice, this book was heavy on the hand waving and there were few concrete examples. It really assumes you already know most everything about the key technologies, so it leaves implementation up to your imagination.An even better idea would be to create a series of books on specific technologies rather than trying to be a catch all for the entire .NET platform.The only reason I didn't give it a single star, was because I managed to get it through a company library for free.
