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    ASP > ASP.NET Reference Books?

    I've got a fair working knowledge of ASP, but for a new project I need to get up to speed on asp.net asap, hopefully I'll be doing an asp.net conversion course in the near future, but I'd like to get a bit of a head-start on it.

    Does anyone know of any good reference books on the subject?

    I did try to order ASP.NET by Example (Steven Smith/Gregg Stark) from Amazon, but they started messing about with slipping delivery dates..
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    I'm not an ASP person but the Sitepoint books are always excellent. Might not be quite what you're after though as it's more of a start from the beginning than a conversion

    http://www.sitepoint.com/books/aspnet1/

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    Just doing exactly the same thing...Picked up Professional ASP.Net 2.0 from Wrox, but it's a little theoretical, and I'm looking for more of an explanation of some of the basic errors I'm likely to encounter being a VBScripter....so I ordered Beginning ASP.Net 2.0 which hasn't arrived yet, but I'll let you know if you're interested.

    Another Wrox book on a similar theme to your ASP.Net by Example was 'ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming Problem, Design, Solution' by Marco Bellinaso, but I haven't got a release date for it yet.

    Let me know if you find anything, I'll be interested to see what else is decent out there...
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    Are you intending to be working on anything in particular in .NET?
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    In a nutshell?

    Redeveloping a commercial website that currently turns over several million pounds worth of business per year, making it it far more manageable in terms of maintainance and code versioning, making it fully dynamic with SQL Server, introducing XML/RSS, utilising new technologies such as AJAX (possibly via ATLAS) where needed, making it more useable (both in terms of DDA/WC3 compliance and the general user experience), and improving conversion..

    The company wants it as future-proofed as possible, and to be up and running in about 6 months, so anything that can save time is a must (such as ASP.NET's automatic handling of paging).

    PHP/MySQL wasn't an option due to the fact that I'm the only person here with any experience of it, so it was either stick with straight ASP and bodge parts of it together, or use ASP.NET..
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    At the moment i'd recommend 'ASP.NET in a nutshell' (don't be put off by the title) published by o'reilly.

    Might be helpful if you can say whether there is going to be a lot of backend, not just scripted pages? Will you be wanting to use C#? SOAP?
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    Especially if future proofing is important, make sure your books are for .NET 2 (a-la VisStudio 2005). It's rolling out as we speak, and while 90-95% the same as .net 1.1 (plus some nice extra bits I gather), you don't want to shell out another £30 per book in a few months time.

    VS 2005 is also much kinder to your html, so lovely compliant code doesn't get re-written by a blind gremlin with one arm and bad breath, just because you accidently hit the "design view" button.

    As for books themselves, I've got the two O'reily books, 'programming C#', and 'programming ASP.NET', I quite like both of them, but obviously can't vouch for the VB equivalent of 'programming C#'. If you already know old asp with VB script, you might be able to skip the VB book, and make do with the asp.net book, all examples are in both C# and vb and you can probably pick up most of the syntax changes from old style vb.
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    Okay, Beginning ASP.NET 2 seems a good book, if you're beginning ASP.NET 2 that is....for someone with a background knowledge of ASP, XHTML, CSS etc it's more than a little simplistic....it actually provides a description of what HTML is and the more common tags.

    It's not a reference book, but I've found the description of the technology to be informative. It's a good place to start if you're afraid of missing out on some of the basic essentials, but I'm sure that you'll quickly outgrow it at which point it'll sit on the shelf gathering dust.
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    Could you maybe look into php? its such a powerful language.. and IMO would rival ASP.NET..

    I use ASP at work but have a little php knowledge and its very easy to pick up with the vast array of sites out there..

    and its available in Linux or Windows platforms as you might already know...

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    Quote Originally Posted by dom_xbox
    Could you maybe look into php? its such a powerful language.. and IMO would rival ASP.NET..

    I use ASP at work but have a little php knowledge and its very easy to pick up with the vast array of sites out there..

    and its available in Linux or Windows platforms as you might already know...
    If you actually read the thread properly you'll know that wasn't an option..
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