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Title: Poorly written and no examples
Review: I too wish I had spent more time looking at the reviews for this book before I bought it! This book is 98% marketing hype, and 2% useful examples. You don't get into writing a simple program until Chapter 16! Although the basics are in this book for designing an ASP.NET application, the examples waste a lot of time because they don't work and a beginning programmer will have a hard time figuring out why they don't work.The new Visual Studio.NET IDE is not explained at all. Without knowing how it builds projects, are we supposed to only use Notepad to edit the examples?I realize it was written using the Beta version of Visual Studio.NET, but it is definitely is going to make someone believe that Visual Studio.Net is too difficult to use to develop real web applications.
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