Books by Deitel & Deitel

[borgkling2003]

Does anyone own a "Visual Basic.NET How to Program" by Deitel & Deital?

How does that compare to the wrox release of Beginning/professional Visual Basic.Net?

 

[RichS]

I don't have that particular book. I do have the C# version and a couple of their older VB and Java Books. I find that the Deitals are among the best. The "Demo-ware" examples that they include tend to be more complete and are closer to the code used in the real world than most other publishers. I am a wrox fan also.

 

[borgkling2003]

Do have any WROX books on VB.net? Im a vb/asp programmer and trying to step into .net but having heaps of prob trying to understand terminology of "programming in ASP.net using VB.net" or "Programing in VB.net". Is there a difference?

 

[RichS]

I have ASP.NET 1.0 by Wrox (2002) First listed Author is Richard Anderson. I found it to be very informative; a good book with one huge exeption in my opinion: It has a couple of pages on using the "Code Behind" approach ( as opposed to "Inline&quot. But most the examples in the book use inline. I bought this in March of 2002 so surely there is a better version of it. The book does describe well certain ASP.NET items such as Page Caching, ViewState, Server Controls, PostBack and so on.

Other resources that I have found very useful are MSDN

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...troductiontowebapplicationsinvisualstudio.asp

and of course.. this forum .

Hope this helps
Rich

 

[Turpis]

I have that book. It may just be me, but that book didn't make any sense to me until I had read Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic .NET in 21 Days. After that, I was not so lost and have been able to enjoy it.

Charles
Walden's Machine, Inc.
Quality Assurance/Office Developer