Rampidbyter Rampid byter: A byte of my .Net developing life.

I’ve been studying for the MCAD upgrade to the MCTS examination for the last few months. I’m reading through the MCTS training exam books that I purchased through Amazon.com. I’ve particularly been studying up from the .Net Framework 2.0 Web-Based Client Development book from the series. I can’t tell you how wonderfully the writers present the information. I’ve long been a fan of the authors of the Wrox publishing technical books, but I can’t express how fantastic the material that authors Glenn Johnson and Tony Northrup has presented the features of ASP.Net 2.0 in the Microsoft Press publication. Cheers to these two for some of the best, down to earth, and moderately comprehensive material. I’ve never once read a technical book where the authors actually touched on the related technology.

In the first chapter of this book the authors take the user through a background on how the ASP.Net framework handles web server content interactions. They actually step the user through using Telenet of all things to see what is really being presented to the browsers. Wow, I was blown away. Most every other book, including the MCAD study guide books only touched on the high level view of the interactions. Never once before has an author given the user the ability to SEE what is going on behind the scenes. Talk about starting the book off with a bang, four chapters into the book, and I still feel like the material being presented to me is done in such a way to promote learning. While I may not ever remember every single base class name, nor concern myself with it until when I need to build a custom implementation, the authors present the material in a way we can both learn and understand from. I can’t wait to read the other two books in the series, and take the new certification.