ASP.NET Book Recommendations
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I am a fairly experienced windows desktop developer with mostly Delphi/C#. I now have to move to the dark side. Web development. Can you guys recommend any decent books that will give me a really good grounding on web development concepts using ASP.NET?
Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008 - From Novice to Professional is pretty good.
rickyjos wrote:
I now have to move to the dark side. Web development.
May I ask why? Is it the same job and you were coerced into doing so? Or you have to as a career move because not much work out there for desk top dev? I was a c++ (desktop/client-server) developer before but there seems to be less remuneration for such. Business/Enterprise/Web seem to be the way to go. One good thing (careerwise) about c++ is it is pretty selective, with web and c# it is easy to pick up.
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Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008 - From Novice to Professional is pretty good.
rickyjos wrote:
I now have to move to the dark side. Web development.
May I ask why? Is it the same job and you were coerced into doing so? Or you have to as a career move because not much work out there for desk top dev? I was a c++ (desktop/client-server) developer before but there seems to be less remuneration for such. Business/Enterprise/Web seem to be the way to go. One good thing (careerwise) about c++ is it is pretty selective, with web and c# it is easy to pick up.
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Thanks for that, I will check it out. Yes it is the same job, we now have the need to "web enable" some parts of our application. I still really enjoy desktop development and we still see strong demand for the things we do, but everybody just seems to want it on the web these days...for better or worse. Still, it is always good to learn something new I guess.
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Thanks for that, I will check it out. Yes it is the same job, we now have the need to "web enable" some parts of our application. I still really enjoy desktop development and we still see strong demand for the things we do, but everybody just seems to want it on the web these days...for better or worse. Still, it is always good to learn something new I guess.
Go for a real challenge - move to Silverlight. While I find the learning curve quite steep and the whole xaml paradigm couter intuitive the end results are much better than asp.net.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Go for a real challenge - move to Silverlight. While I find the learning curve quite steep and the whole xaml paradigm couter intuitive the end results are much better than asp.net.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Thanks for the reply Mycroft. It is actually something that I have been thinking about...the whole ASP.NET/WPF/Silverlight thing. You have obviously chosen to go the Silverlight path and I understand that it is probably "horses for courses" type thing, but what made you go the Silverlight path?
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Thanks for the reply Mycroft. It is actually something that I have been thinking about...the whole ASP.NET/WPF/Silverlight thing. You have obviously chosen to go the Silverlight path and I understand that it is probably "horses for courses" type thing, but what made you go the Silverlight path?
I have this huge dislike for the web user experience, and developing anything web based felt like amputating a decade of functional improvements When the company policy said we needed to move to a service based structure for all new development I could justify the rather substantial investment in learning a new tech. Oh and I do like to take on a challenge regularly. My boss does like shiny and was willing to wear the delivery delays. It was only when we needed to service OS customers that I actually decided to go web. I then read a number of articles on LOB/Silverlight (Pete, Sasha, Josh and a few others) and decided it was viable. We now have our framework and code generator up and running based on Galasoft MVVM Light. I estimate we are about 70% through the learning curve and it's been a tough few months. The REALLY interesting bits are still in front of us.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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I have this huge dislike for the web user experience, and developing anything web based felt like amputating a decade of functional improvements When the company policy said we needed to move to a service based structure for all new development I could justify the rather substantial investment in learning a new tech. Oh and I do like to take on a challenge regularly. My boss does like shiny and was willing to wear the delivery delays. It was only when we needed to service OS customers that I actually decided to go web. I then read a number of articles on LOB/Silverlight (Pete, Sasha, Josh and a few others) and decided it was viable. We now have our framework and code generator up and running based on Galasoft MVVM Light. I estimate we are about 70% through the learning curve and it's been a tough few months. The REALLY interesting bits are still in front of us.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH