.NET beginner book?

[schick]

Looking for a good beginner book for .NET. I have coded asp for about 8 months but I'm looking to move up to .NET, any suggestions are appreciated. Also, books to stay away from are also appreciated.

 

[GabeC]

I like O'Reilly's Programming ASP.Net book. It gives code examples in both C# and VB.Net. I feel it is a good book to start with.



Thanks,

Gabe

 

[schick]

I have found three of the O'reilly books
Which one were your refering to?

ASP.NET in a nutshell
ASP.NET
C# & VB.NET Conversion

Are you familiar with the WROX books? If so, what do you think about the quality of information?

 

[Alcar]

Wrox is a great choice.
It also depends on what language you are interested in, but here are some good titles.

Level one books
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"Beginning VB.NET"
"Beginning C#"
"Beginning ASP.NET using VB.NET"
"Beginning ASP.NET using C#"

Level two books
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"Professional VB.NET"
"Professional C#" (I'm currently reading this one)
"Professional ASP.NET"

Reference Books
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"ADO.NET Programmer's Reference"

A book I have read and really loved was from Microsoft Press:
"Building Web Solutions with ASP.NET and ADO.NET"
Author: Dino Esposito

Overall the Wrox books are awsome, and I will try to to write some reviews of come of the above mentioned books in this forum.

Hope this Helps and good luck!

 

[GabeC]

The title is "Programming ASP.Net"

I'm not promoting Amazon.com, just putting this link here to show you exactly which book I am talking about.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...8136231/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-4113355-9700810

Thanks,

Gabe

 

[Isadore]

One of my favorites is "Instant ASP.NET Applications" by Greg Buczek, Pub. Osborne/McGraw Hill. Its chock full of complete sites and has nearly 900 pages of code.

 

[drew10]

Whatever you do, don't buy Microsoft's "ASP.NET step by step". It has nothing about the codebehind or using vs.net, and gives very poor explanations of the sample code.