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Building an Asp.Net Intranet
by Kourosh Ardestani, Brian Boyce, Chad Hutchinson, Saurabh Nandu, John C. Roth
List Price: $49.99
Our Price: $34.99
ISBN: 1590592565
Publisher: APress (September, 2003)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 72,783
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 out of 5
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Rating: 1 out of 5
Another "let's get it published asap" book.
If you wish to understand the IBUY Portal, don't count on this book to help you. I didn't like the style and structure of this book. I got the sense that this book was just another rush publication with a group of programmers getting together, assigning chapters with desired content and then got down to pulling and writing code. WROX needs to do a better job of controlling quality and up front planning for their books. Sorry, but this book shows none of that. The design of the existing site was mostly crammed into a single chapter. A decent database diagram was not included and no UML or other diagrams were presented so we could easily understand the Object architecture. Instead, the documentation was simply a straight lift from sql server table descriptions. I found myself drawing my own diagrams as I went through the book. An architect's perspective was desparately needed in this first chapter. I won't be buying any more WROX books if things don't improve by enforcing good technical writing standards for their publications.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Good blueprint; confusing target audience.
I bought this book because I have been thrust into the Intranet development world, and I really don't have a lot of experience building multi-functional web pages. I bought this book to really help me understand the IBuySpy portal, and I have used it to customize that package for a couple of different web sites now.The Good:
The book is very good at explaining the various components of the IBuySpy Portal. It's a lot like a tourist map; highlighting certain pieces (while complete overlooking other aspects). The Bad:
As others have noted, this book doesn't go deep into explaining ASP.NET, or how to use classes in the .NET architecture. It merely allows you to copy a lot of code, cross your fingers, and see something work. The Ugly:
As with most "best-of-breed" solutions from Microsoft, stuff breaks. While this particular manual does point out why some stuff doesn't work as well as intended, it doesn't go into a lot of detail (and don't expect it to catch everything). In Sum: Buy this book if you have a need to get an intranet up and running quickly, and want to impress your non-developer friends. Don't buy it if you're expecting to use it to learn ASP.NET.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Mostly just code listings
I didn't much care for this book. It never really explains the how or why, it just lists code. "Now we'll add an edit button: Now we'll add a delete button: ". There's no explanation of what the code means, how the ASP pages link to the code-behind pages, etc.I'm not sure who the target audience is. It's not technical enough for geeky types, but too technical for administrative types. I guess it's aimed at script kiddy types who want to copy code without really understanding how it works.
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