[AccessD] Visual Basic 2008 Express & VB.NET

...you make my point for me Shamil ...the book is 3 years old now and 
everything is available on-line for free ...plus lots of updates, 
improvements, errors, and user comments

http://www.codeplex.com/TheBeerHouse

...why pay Amazon? ...why a book? ...although I'll allow that having a 12gig 
internet link probably makes it easier for me than you :)

...ps ...I visit his blog sometimes ...the source code is there as well but 
not as well maintained as the codeplex source.

William
"In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their 
careers, and then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers 
to promote change." Gov. Palin

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From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru>
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 3:03 AM
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [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-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [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
>
>
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