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I bought this book for an independent study course on ASP.Net 2.0. In order to understand most of what is covered in this book you should be a somewhat experienced programmer. The foreword says that you should know either VBScript or C# before reading this book, and I agree.

The book shows how the new ASP.Net 2.0 is completely object orientated and dissects all of the objects available to you. The book starts off a bit slow giving brief descriptions of all of the objects and then later on comes back to cover them in full detail. While this is an okay layout, it really leaves the reader wondering for the first 6-7 chapters if they will ever understand ASP.Net.

If you are trying to learn ASP.Net and are not an experienced programmer in either C# or VBScript I would not recommend this book as it is very hard to understand why certain things are done. He only explains the ASP code and not so much the strict VB code.

Overall I found this book rather boring and too technical. For my purposes of learning simple things within ASP.Net 2.0 and creating database driven websites within a semester, it is just too much to tackle.
Rating: 2 / 5

BUY THIS BOOK!!! This book is as close to a useful toolbox as you will ever find in ASP.Net 2.0. I was surprised that such a book even existed. It cuts a lot of time by focusing on usability rather than unnecessary rhetoric. It goes over all the server controls and their required configurations. It also includes an interesting chapter on JavaScript. My complements to the chef!!!
Rating: 5 / 5

Since his first book in ASP.NET until this ASP.NET 2.0, Stephen Walther never fails proving that he still deserves chewing the reputation given by Microsoft to him as the Legend in ASP.NET development. (First I thought his reputation was just an overstated response to his book, but since I have used his book, I could not agree more with his reputation)
Rating: 5 / 5