i want to learn how to create web sites with c# and asp.net: recommend books please!!

[colinear]

i've scoured amazon.com, but after reading most of the reviews for any book that looks promising i get cold feet.

please recommend a book or books that are directed at pure beginners that want to work up to building pro level web sites with visual c# and asp.net

i don't know anything about programming and i really want to learn. where do i start? what would you do?

any and all help would be very much appreciated as i am totally exasperated at trying to figure out where to start.

thanks!!

[buntine]

I will move this to the .NET forum for you.

[colinear]

I will move this to the .NET forum for you.

ok

[screaming_banjo]

Not sure how much you know already, but you will need to learn HTML/XHTML. A book that I used (and still do) is The World Wide Web and how to program from Deitel, Deitel Nieto. If you search Amazon for Deitel you'll get loads back!

I also believe that Wrox do very good books.

HTH

[buntine]

Wrox Beginning ASP.NET And Wrox Professional ASP.NET are both great books.

I own the latter, its a priceless resources. But I recommend Beginning ASP.NET.

[PeOfEo]

I would stay away from anything written by greg buczec. I own one of his books and the code is very buggy and poorly written.

[askohen]

I too would like to try .net. I just got hired for an intranet project (more content side), but I like to understand the backend of what I am doing. I have pretty good HTML/XHTML/CSS experience, and some very basic perl and PHP exposure. A couple questions:

1) What would I need to play around with developing aspx pages on a local machine?

2) What if I wanted to host something on a box in my own house. Would I need to host it on a Windows machine? If so, does it need to be Windows Server? I assume I can't use Linux, correct?

3) What language would you use to play if you were me? Thanks!

[comn8u]

Two good books that I used, and I've read through 6-7:

Beginning Visual Web Programming in C#
(This one is step by step - requires a little knowledge)
by Daniel Cazzulino, Victor Garcia Aprea, James Greenwood, and Chris Hart
APRESS
ISBN - (1-59059-361-8)


and for VB but I used it for C#, since it wasn't much different but helped out:
ASP.NET Tips, Tutorials, and Code
by Scott Mitchell, Steve Walther, Doug Seven, Donny Mack, Chris Payne, Billy Anders, Adam Nathan, Dan Wahlin
SAMS
ISBN - (0-672-32143-2)

I highly recommend these!

[sonicvybe]

1) What would I need to play around with developing aspx pages on a local machine?

microsoft webdeveloper 2005 express edition...i just started using it...i am new to this ASP.NET 2.0 server side stuff...

you can preview the page as it would connect to a database...in IE...and it pretends that it is being hosted by a real host...aka the path looks something like this - http://localhost:1489/SiteName/Default.aspx - i think its a great tool for testing and learning...aside the point...

you can download it for free from the msdn.com website ;)