Book Review: Professional ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX
I’ve been knocking together a little hobby project that contains plenty of AJAX, both the ASP.NET and rolled-from-scratch variety, and needed something to act as a bit of a reference to get me through some of the more non-obvious attributes and properties, so I spotted this on Amazon and went for it. I’ve got to say, that when it arrived, it was a bit of a shock. This is the thinnest technical book I’ve ever bought, compared with other Wrox publications it just looks puny!
To be honest, a lot of the content is a bit puny too. Maybe it’s just me being a bit to eager, but i already knew about 75% of the content just from my Internet based studies. The chapter of the AJAX Toolkit is particularly thin and doesn’t cover anywhere near as much functionality as one would expect.
On the other hand, the chapters on debugging and testing, deployment and building AJAX based customer controls are particularly illuminating. To sum up, I’d say this was a decent introduction to the subject, but not something that deserves a ‘Professional’ title added to it. A half decent weekend read, 6 out of 10. More at Amazon.co.uk…
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