[AccessD] Visual Basic 2008 Express & VB.NET

William,

I'd propose that to not collect dust, to preserve environment, to save one's
time from Internet browsing and to save some money one can use e-books these
days: good books (which are a few) unlike Internet usually serve for very
quick "jump-start" with guaranteed good final result.

For example, for ASP.NET programming such "jump-start with guaranteed good
final results book" is IMO:

ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution 

http://www.amazon.com/ASP-NET-2-0-Website-Programming-Programmer/dp/07645846
42 

That one helped me personally to program an advanced ASP.NET application
starting from a very basic level of ASP.NET programming experience. The
application I programmed has 50,000+ page hits some days with million+
records in some MS SQL 2005 back-end tables... (Well, as far as I see now
that's only the beginning of this story of advanced Internet applications
programming but without reading the referred above book I could have
ended-up in a disastrous solution without any future...)

Proposal: it would be useful if here we can collectively build a list of
"recommended to read books" and other sources and publish this list on
Access-D web site?

The above book is the one I'd recommend to put as the first one in "ASP.NET
recommended reading" list...

Thank you.

--
Shamil


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Hindman
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 8:09 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Visual Basic 2008 Express & VB.NET

Paul

...before you buy a book (Susan will kill me for this) try the MS dotnet 
learning site first ...they have literally dozens of free walk though videos

with downloadable code ...a step above the normal quality for MS ...I've got

hundreds of books collecting dust from other products over the years but not

one on VS2008 so far even though its now my full time development 
environment (with the exception of legacy Access dbs that I still support 
and am working on converting) ...point being that imnsho, the quality and 
accessibility of free and low cost on-line learning resources now makes most

tech books obsolete ...and I'd be the first to admit I love books.

William