Beginning ASP.NET 4.0 in VB 2010 (Expert's Voice in .NET) Review

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(More customer reviews)As an Open source enthusiast, I never thought I would look back and grab a ASP.NET book or at least be interested in one, but recently a friend of mine asked me to help him to set up a Share Point server so I had to look for all the information available in internet, sooner than later, I asked him if he wanted a different approach to his needs, meaning I could help him out putting together some Open source solutions, but nope, he did stick to his guns.
So I had to tell him that if he wanted my help he would have to buy me some books: Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005 and / or Beginning ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010, anyway, he ended buying me both and it's been kind of hard to drop them, specially the second.
I titled this review "A bearer of good news" for a reason: Matthew MacDonald delivers an excellent and thorough compilation of the basics and middle level of the ASP.NET language leaving almost no space covered (he would have to write another volume for that matter) and the good news are that there's another world besides the Open source(d) one, it has improved to the point of (at least) changing some people's mind about it.
There are plenty of topics that I enjoyed reading this book but the ones that I found to be really useful are: Security and Caching, I know, we'll never know for sure if there's some hacker out there who already has the code and knowledge to break the first and I also know we'll never have applications that are fast enough, but I'm obliged to say that if we follow Matthew MacDonald's advice and handy examples, we'll be set to go.
And just to assist my comments, if you have the chance to see the performance of a Liferay portal (Open source under LGPL) against a Share Point's (Microsoft), you'll see what I mean.


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Beginning ASP.NET 4.0 in VB 2010 follows in the footsteps of the highly successful .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.5 editions, teaching novice users how to use ASP.NET by gradually building their knowledge of the technology up in a pyramidal fashion chapter by chapter.Comprehensively revised for both ASP.NET 4.0 and the new Visual Basic 2010 language this book presents the easiest path to ASP.NET 4.0 mastery.

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