Good Book/Training Material To Learn ASP.NET 2.0+

Question

Hello all can you suggest a book/s or training material (APPDEV, LearnKey etc.) that is very thorough in learning ASP.NET 2.0 and better?

I am going to start the SAMS ASP.NET Unleashed Book since a know of a few training classes that uses this book as a textbook.

Let me know of that book/site/training material that really helped you in learning asp.net 2.0

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Microsoft's Quickstart is where I learned about 2.0, and I still highly recommend it for getting started.

Answer 2

I purchased Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C#. It was pretty good. I also frequent .NET-centric forums like http://channel9.msdn.com where I can speak with C#/VB.NET/ASP.NET developers easily. I didn't find Stack Overflow until recently, but I'm certain it would have been an extremely good help also.

If you're a visual person, you could check out the videos at http://www.LearnVisualStudio.net too. They have tutorials in both C# and VB.NET.

Answer 3

The best way to learn ASP.NET is to find a mentor. Otherwise you are going to stumble on some the qurks like state management, control lifecycle and authentication/authorzation.

With that said, I started with SAMS ASP.NET Unleashed Book also, however it was far from the correct way to architect applications. That's why a good mentor would boost your career 10 fold.