BOOK REVIEW
Book Title: C# Developer’s Guide to ASP.NET, XML, and ADO.NET	Addison Wesley
Authors: Jeffrey P. McManus and Chris Kinsman	ISBN 0672321556

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

Summary Review

This book is an excellent reference to C# programmers to tackle web development. It covers the most cutting-edge topics in .NET technology, in particular Web Services and Security. As it is mentioned in the title, this book is not C# tutorial from scratch, but to use C# programming language for web applications.

Detailed Comments 

It is clear that this book is for the C# audience to use ASP.NET, XML and ADO.NET. It covers enough topics with excellent examples. Although, it is a good reference for C# developers with hands on .NET framework and not a C# programming language tutorial.

The book includes 11 chapters covered in 590 pages. The introduction chapter describes ASP from the scripting languages to ASP.NET. Chapter 2 is devoted to page framework. Chapter 3, 4, and 5 focus more deeper on ASP and configuration. Chapter 6 is devoted to Web Services. Chapter 7 point out the Security topic. HTTP containers are reported in chapter 8. Chapter 9 covers user controls and server controls. Chapter 10 is devoted to XML, and the last chapter is devoted to ADO.NET. An outstanding index section covered in 60 pages that include the most searched keywords and subtitles.

The authors share in this book their strong knowledge of .NET framework, with very interesting comments and examples. I recommend strongly this book for C# community to use it as a reference for .NET platform.

Reviewer:

Abder Boukour

Date:

10/7/02