I am pretty familiar with ASP.....but I do not know where to start with

ASP.Net



Any suggestions..(Books or Sites)...other than the quick start?



-Scott



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Well, when Adeel Amad asked this question a day or so ago, Fredrik Normen

was kind enough to recommend our (Wrox's) "Preview of ASP+". he also

recommended "Introducing .NET" which (ironically) he's seen and I -

working for Wrox as I do - haven't! (he was a reviewer on it during its

edit :) ). The Microsoft site gotdotnet.com has a good many links to

resources, and my own links list has relevant specific articles on many

sites listed article by article -

http://p2p.wrox.com/topics/ASPlinks/ASPlinks.htm (although I'll have to

find some time to update the content available at Steve Schofield's site,

ASPFree... it might be worth going along there and just having a look at

what he's put up lately). There are also these lists, Charles Carroll's,

and the messageboards at places like 4guys.



It also depends which language you'd like to code in. I've got a copy of

our "C# Programming on the Public Beta" here with me, and it's looking

pretty good. I might start digging into this over the weekend. It's not an

ASP-specific book, of course, but I think this will be a good language to

learn. Why? Well, only a blind man would fail to recognise that the .NET

framework is going to throw Sun and Microsoft head to head into a final

battle to the death for supremacy over the eventual future of the web. The

loser will probably suffer a long and dwindling death, but the winner's

technology will reign supreme. Think about what this means for VB-coders.

If you know C#, then learning Java would be a doddle, but what if you've

placed all your hopes on VB? VB is so useful it will never go away,

whatever happens, but its implementation on the web might not be so easy,

if Java wins.



You've got to hedge your bets in this game. My suspicion is that .NET will

blow Java out of the water, but I don't _know_ that yet, do I? There's

nothing less useful than a coder with a headful of obsolete knowledge:

knowing how to work with the kernel of a PDP-10, or write card-reader

programs for a Sperry Univac is great for impressing the boys at a Linux

conference, or something, but it won't get you a job.



Daniel Walker

Wrox Press



> I am pretty familiar with ASP.....but I do not know where to start with

> ASP.Net

> 

> Any suggestions..(Books or Sites)...other than the quick start?

> 

> -Scott

> 



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> You've got to hedge your bets in this game. My suspicion is that .NET will

> blow Java out of the water, but I don't _know_ that yet, do I?



I'd be really interested on the reasons for your comment...I've recently

been watching a thread from an Internet Network List [FirstTuesdayClub UK]

which extoled the virutes of ASP/SQL with Linux/JSP etc... Basically ASP

lost due to cost, mostly, and the belief that Linux is more stable, secure

etc...



We're hedging our bets on ASP/SQL but would be interested in knowing more as

to why this platform is better? Perhaps I need a confidence booster that

we're doing the right thing, to young to retire  :))



any thoughts, links to reports etc welcome, if anything some amo to fire

back ..



cheers



peter





----- Original Message -----

From: Daniel Walker <danielw@w...>

To: aspx_beginners <aspx_beginners@p...>

Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 8:58 PM

Subject: [aspx_beginners] Re: Where to start





> Well, when Adeel Amad asked this question a day or so ago, Fredrik Normen

> was kind enough to recommend our (Wrox's) "Preview of ASP+". he also

> recommended "Introducing .NET" which (ironically) he's seen and I -

> working for Wrox as I do - haven't! (he was a reviewer on it during its

> edit :) ). The Microsoft site gotdotnet.com has a good many links to

> resources, and my own links list has relevant specific articles on many

> sites listed article by article -

> http://p2p.wrox.com/topics/ASPlinks/ASPlinks.htm (although I'll have to

> find some time to update the content available at Steve Schofield's site,

> ASPFree... it might be worth going along there and just having a look at

> what he's put up lately). There are also these lists, Charles Carroll's,

> and the messageboards at places like 4guys.

>

> It also depends which language you'd like to code in. I've got a copy of

> our "C# Programming on the Public Beta" here with me, and it's looking

> pretty good. I might start digging into this over the weekend. It's not an

> ASP-specific book, of course, but I think this will be a good language to

> learn. Why? Well, only a blind man would fail to recognise that the .NET

> framework is going to throw Sun and Microsoft head to head into a final

> battle to the death for supremacy over the eventual future of the web. The

> loser will probably suffer a long and dwindling death, but the winner's

> technology will reign supreme. Think about what this means for VB-coders.

> If you know C#, then learning Java would be a doddle, but what if you've

> placed all your hopes on VB? VB is so useful it will never go away,

> whatever happens, but its implementation on the web might not be so easy,

> if Java wins.

>

> You've got to hedge your bets in this game. My suspicion is that .NET will

> blow Java out of the water, but I don't _know_ that yet, do I? There's

> nothing less useful than a coder with a headful of obsolete knowledge:

> knowing how to work with the kernel of a PDP-10, or write card-reader

> programs for a Sperry Univac is great for impressing the boys at a Linux

> conference, or something, but it won't get you a job.

>

> Daniel Walker

> Wrox Press

>

> > I am pretty familiar with ASP.....but I do not know where to start with

> > ASP.Net

> >

> > Any suggestions..(Books or Sites)...other than the quick start?

> >

> > -Scott

> >



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