A review today on amazon:

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Trying to work my way though the book now. It is very clear that the editing team either didn't exist or only spell checked things. The entire book focuses on teaching you how to create a web site and yet the set up instructions are incorrect. I checked the forum on the books site and someone had asked about this.

The author said it was an error that got past the editing team.

How is that possible? A single attempt to go though the book would show that the project is literally impossible to create if you follow the instructions given inside. Heck you don't even need to go all the way through, just like 5-6 chapters (out of 18ish) before you hit an impossible wall.
My book is now filling with notes where the instructions are incorrect. I literally have found parts where the screenshots in the book do not match the given source code that you can download from the site.

Truly this was a mistake to buy. I am going to try an get as much out of it as I can but to everyone else: Stay away! This is not what you want
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It may not be a good review but im sorry to say it is accurate , this book feels like it was rushed , i waited for this book for so long and im totally disappointed . Everything that review says is true and i am not sure what to do with it now .

I was thinking about this book as an alternative:
Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1: in C# and VB

But my issue is that it is older and deals with Visual Studio 2013. I really wanted a more updated book. But it uses BOTH C# AND VB. And it got pretty good reviews on amazon.

that is also the book i am getting as the 2nd hand versions are like 4 dollars so if it doesnt work out i have not wasted 45 dollars again

Where do you see it for 4 dollars? Can you please post a link? Thanks.

Oh. But that one is MUCH older - March 2010.

Well, let me start by saying I totally agree with you N_B. I haven't read the entire book yet , I have only finished the first 6 chapters but I ran through the rest very fast to have an idea. The project cannot be completed as it is. You will have to "figure out" some things.

When I first saw this book I was intrigued. I thought this will be an interesting approach, to see both frameworks in comparison. The implementation was bad though. Imagine that I am already familiar with both frameworks and still I don't enjoy the pace of this book. It should have been 200 pages longer to have more room to analyze different aspects of both frameworks.

I also own the "Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1" and I must say that book is/was amazing. I suggest you buy it. You will completely understand everything about web forms (at least from a beginner perspective) , be able to create a working website and also use it as a teaching tool to teach others (extremely important for me and a reason this book is amazing!).

So to summarize, if you are a tech/web freak proceed as below:
[1] Start with "Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1 in C# and VB" (web forms)
[2] Continue in parallel : Professional ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB (most chapters cover web forms) and Beginning ASP.NET for Visual Studio 2015 (this one. It'll help you figure out the differences easier)
[3] Finish with Professional MVC 5 (this one is actually easier to follow than the "beginner" book)

All in all I have bought most wrox books (that apply to Microsoft technologies) and I'm satisfied. This book needed a lot more work but its not useless. Oh, consider buying books from www.bookdepository.com. In my experience it has the lowest prices, delivers in time, have excellent customer support etc.)

PS: About your concern that Beg ASP.NET 4.5.1 is older: Both the book in question and Beg ASP 4.5.1 are beginner books. Beginners books don't cover the latest technology changes for apparent reasons (unless its something trivial).

Joakeim, thanks so much for your input!

Question regarding "Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1" .... I believe that deals with Visual Studio 2013 and I have Visual Studio 2015. Do you think that will cause me trouble?

Again, thanks for your post. Very helpful!

Although the author (Imar) said that its best to use VS 2013 to complete all exercises in the book, I found out that all of them are working without any modifications in VS 2015.

The only problem I had was with WSAT. But this problem is present in VS 2013 as well. I believe there wasn't a problem with WSAT in VS 2012. But, again if I remember correctly, Imar posts the solution to it. If not the forum there is very active and you ll find a solution or you can always check the internet.

So again, you should be able to complete everything you see in the book with VS 2015 having no problems at all. If you have any more questions feel free to ask.