Good starter book?

[Just Me]

I am an intermediate ASP programmer looking to start learning .NET and am
looking for a good book to start learning from. Anyone have any
recommendations on a good book to get me started?

TIA!!!




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[Ray at]

I've always like Wrox books. Of course, they're now bankrupt, but I think
you can probably still find the books places. O'Reilly is my second choice.
SAMS is my last choice.

Ray at work

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> looking for a good book to start learning from. Anyone have any
> recommendations on a good book to get me started?
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> TIA!!!
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[Tom B]

I've been impressed with the Microsoft books. The Step by step series are
particularly good.



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>
> TIA!!!
>
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[atoi]

i'll second the wrox opinion. while they can be a little
dense, they make great references when you're tired of
google'ing for your answers.

and personally, i don't like any MS books... except maybe
petzolds programming windows book...

sams are great for beginners though, but don't go into
much detail, so you're still forced to buy other books to
server as references.

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>I've always like Wrox books. Of course, they're now

bankrupt, but I think

>you can probably still find the books places. O'Reilly

is my second choice.

>SAMS is my last choice.
>
>Ray at work
>
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>> looking for a good book to start learning from. Anyone

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[Ray at]

I agree about the MS books. I find that MS books are too focused on
covering every single possible topic that may come up instead of focussing
on what 95% of people in the real world use. Like, an MS ASP book may spend
50 pages on the ad rotator component and then just spend 20 pages on
connecting to databases or something. This is just an exagerated
theoretical example.

Ray at work

"atoi" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> i'll second the wrox opinion. while they can be a little
> dense, they make great references when you're tired of
> google'ing for your answers.
>
> and personally, i don't like any MS books... except maybe
> petzolds programming windows book...
>
> sams are great for beginners though, but don't go into
> much detail, so you're still forced to buy other books to
> server as references.
>

[Tom B]

I'll agree with the ad rotator comment -- I have that book;)
However, I do find the "step by step" books to be pretty good.

I also find the SAMS books to be too "beginner"



"Ray at <%=sLocation%>" <myfirstname at lane34 dot com> wrote in message
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> I agree about the MS books. I find that MS books are too focused on
> covering every single possible topic that may come up instead of focussing
> on what 95% of people in the real world use. Like, an MS ASP book may

spend

> 50 pages on the ad rotator component and then just spend 20 pages on
> connecting to databases or something. This is just an exagerated
> theoretical example.
>
> Ray at work
>
> "atoi" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:032b01c39416$a98605b0$a301280a@phx.gbl...

> > i'll second the wrox opinion. while they can be a little
> > dense, they make great references when you're tired of
> > google'ing for your answers.
> >
> > and personally, i don't like any MS books... except maybe
> > petzolds programming windows book...
> >
> > sams are great for beginners though, but don't go into
> > much detail, so you're still forced to buy other books to
> > server as references.
> >

>
>