A Call For Help
I have been thinking about learning ASP.NET for a while now, but everytime I start to think about it I am turned off by the huge amount of config files to navigate through along with the huge library of methos and classes. So, I figure I would ask for a point in the right direction for a book or site that can give me some good insight into the .NET world. I want to know why there are Master Pages, Themes, and Web Parts…why so many different types of skin config types? Why ARE there so many config files to set? I don’t understand the bloat and I would like to learn the need for all this stuff. Does anyone have a good book or site I can buy or go to and learn these types of things? Thanks!
Last year I had to learn ASP.NET relatively quickly and used the Wrox Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 as well as the Microsoft Press ASP.NET Step by Step. Both are good books. I felt the Wrox book was slightly more complete on explaining the items you are looking at understanding. I would recommend going with them, your choice now would be more the 2.0 or 3.5 books, depending on the environment you have. Also, don’t forget about the website http://www.asp.net, it has a wealth of tutorials (a little hard to navigate though) and I used that quite a bit to do some more advanced things not covered in the basic books (like modifying the DataGrid). Those are just my thoughts.
Thanks Phil, I appreciate it. I am going to see if those books are available on Safari. I did check out asp.net, but on my first pass I got annoyed with the site. I will have to revisit it.