Matt Crouch has followed up his popular successful (alas, out of print) book based on version 6 of Visual Basic and ASP with this new .NET level book. Matt's personal experience in moving to .NET as an application developer for an internet consulting company clearly shows in a book that covers the things that VB programmers want to learn for web programming.

One way to judge a book is to look for those finishing touches which show that the author really cared about how well you understand his book. In this one, for example, code examples are keyed to the text with numbered icons so you can clearly see what lines of code are being explained. Because the examples and the organization is designed to make it easy to pull off the shelf and refer to, the book serves quite well as a reference as well as a tutorial. Source code is downloadable at the publisher's web site.

If you're looking for a book with a solid overview of ASP.NET web programming, this one is for you. But keep in mind that it is focused on the web, and it's not for people just starting out.

Applications: ASP.NET (heavy!), COM+, ADO.NET

About the Author

Matt J. Crouch works for a software development company in the midwest and his knowledge base comes from that real-world experience. He's written one previous book about ASP at the VB 6 level.