BOOK REVIEW
Book Title: Visual Basic.NET Developer's Guide to ASP.NET,XML, and ADO.NET	Publisher: Addison Wesley
Author(s): Jeffrey P. McManus and Chris Kinsman	ISBN: 0672321319

Category					Rating
LEGEND:	5=Excellent	4=Good	3=Standard	2=Fair	1=Poor
Overall recommendation					4
Quality of organization					4
Easy to read and navigate					4
Sufficient quantity of examples					4
Examples are error free					4
Reuse for reference					4
Quality of index					4

Summary Review

This book is very easy to read, and the examples in the book are all easy to follow. It provides enough information for people who are new to .NET and those who need a reference tool. The book has a good background on Visual Basic .NET, ASP.NET, XML, and ADO.NET. Very easy to understand.

Detailed Comments 

Chapter 2 provides good information for migrating from ASP to ASP.NET. It helps ASP 3.0 developers understand the differences between ASP 3.0 and ASP.NET and what needs to be changed. This book also discusses the general idea of Web Services, XML and ADO.NET with very simple examples. Having this makes it very helpful in understanding the corrolation of all the .NET features. You may want to pick up other books if you want to know more about these topics. I was able to use some of the examples in my development work, the examples are very nicely written and very well explained. This book, as is, can be a good tool for both learning .NET and used as a reference in future development work. I recommend the book.

Reviewer:

Annie Wu

Date:

10/3/02