Imar's Beginning ASP.NET 4 available now

jminatel · March 16th, 2010, 01:21 PM

For those of you who love Imar's great ASP.NET 3.5 book and his step-by-step style, I'm happy to announce that his Beginning ASP.NET 4 is finished, available, and shipping today. If you've enjoyed his 3.5 book and want to learn ASP.NET 4 the same way, it ready for you. Or if you think your coworkers and friends need an ASP.NET 4 book, please let them know how great you think Imar's book is.

kiwibrit · March 27th, 2010, 07:42 AM

Ooo. I am tempted. I keep coming back to Imar's book for a lot of reference stuff - and I like what I read about .net 4 menu control. Must check when my web host will be running .net4.

hvete · April 13th, 2010, 09:10 AM

If you feel like you've really read an understood Imar's 3.5 book, do you feel like you really need to read the beginning ASP.NET 4.0, or can you go straight to Advanced ASP.NET 4.0 and still follow it?

kiwibrit · April 13th, 2010, 10:42 AM

The odd thing is that, though I have Professional ASP.NET 3.5, I find Imar's book easier to refer back to and understand. Partly because, since it's written for beginners, it is written very clearly, and partly because its index is more helpful. I doubt if I'll buy the book - but I may pay to download the chapter that deals with menus.

Imar · April 13th, 2010, 03:03 PM

Hi hvete,

If "you've really read an understood" my 3.5 book, I think you're better off getting the Pro 4.0 version. The 4.0 book is a major update of the previous version with jQuery and the ADO.NET Entity Framework as two brand new chapters (the latter replacing the LINQ to SQL chapter).

Since ASP.NET 4 is backwards compatible with 3.5, you'll find that the 4.0 version of my book has a lot of stuff that the 3.5 edition had as well. Obviously, I have updated the entire book to take the many, many changes in Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4 into account. So, even if you have read the 3.5 edition, you will find lots of new stuff in the 4.0 edition.

Cheers,

Imar

stormage · May 28th, 2010, 11:56 AM

Hi Imar
I'm in a serious dilemma.
i purchased the 3.5 book short time before the 4 came out.
By googling around i realized that there are some important updates and changes in the dot net 4, and i don't want to read the 3.5 book as good as it might be and feel like I'm missing lots of important info.
I've decided to consider the new book purchase, but your answer here will influence a lot on my final decision.

in the 3.5 book, I'm done with the 7th chapter.
Is there any way to take on the rest of new book from chapter 8, and still understand what is going on....
I mean, its not even the middle of the book, so i was just wondering.
I'm sure there are little things to pay attention to, but in your opinion, is this possible? are there any special notes to take from earlier chapters in the new book before taking on chapter 8 and on? (I have vs 2010, this is not an issue regarding using it)

10x

Best wishes...

Imar · May 28th, 2010, 06:20 PM

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Is there any way to take on the rest of new book from chapter 8, and still understand what is going on....

Yes, you should be able to continue in the new book in the same chapter. The biggest changes are introduced later when jQuery and the Entity Framework are discussed. Here's what I recommend:

1. Grab the source from Chapter 7 of the new book. Don't continue with your own source from the 3.5 version as that's substantially different (different enough to make things confusing).

2. Glance over Chapters 1-7 of the new book, jumping from topic title to topic title, scanning for new stuff. There's certainly a lot of new stuff in there, but I can't point out all the locations. However, glancing over the chapters surely gives you an idea how things are done in .NET 4 now.

3. Enjoy the rest of the 4.0 book. ;-)

Hope this helps,

Imar

janilane · July 13th, 2010, 05:55 PM

Hi Imar, are you coming up also with ASP.NET 4.0 Instant Results? I have you Asp.2.0 Instant results and I was wondering if I should continue with the rest of the chapters since I've just done 2 chapters in the book (focusing mainly on the designs of the Wrox Web Shop (Chapter 9)

Thanks

Imar · July 18th, 2010, 08:21 AM

Hi janilane,

No, there are no plans for an updated 4.0 version of the ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results book.

Cheers,

Imar