Trying to teach myself ASP.Net. Looking for a good up-to-date book.

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User1070744538 posted

Hello all,

So I am currently a relatively fresh out of college job seeker and have chosen to pursue a career harnessing C#. The main thing I often see paired though with C# on job application is ASP.Net.

So far I have attempted to use Udemy and follow along the videos but I regularly run into two common issues.

1. The videos are far out of date and the methods they teach are impossible to use with Visual Studio 

2. The instruction starts to jump, assuming a certain amount of understanding of the code, saying just to look at the given sample code for details.

So I tried a text book. I got really excited when I found Beginning ASP.Net for Visual Studio 2015 (published last month) since it seemed that it would be perfect for my needs. Sadly, it is absolutely FULL of errors. I literally had to go to the publisher's site's forum and request help only to find out that the instructions for creating the main project that the rest of the book is based on are incorrect.

So here I am looking to you all for any tips, books, or tutorials on teaching myself ASP.Net. If any of you have good suggestions for a complete newbie. I would really appreciate it. 

Thanks for your time.

P.S. My Uncle is in the business but works more with SQL. He doesn't know exactly what it is (and so I have no idea), but Web Services are currently the latest and greatest method of harnessing ASP.Net (He was vague on this. Not sure if he knew what he was talking about). So if any of you have any suggestions on pursuing this and what it exactly is in comparison to Web Forms or MVC, both of which I have gained some understanding of from my prior attempts at teaching myself, I would also be interested in hearing them.

Answer 1

User-821857111 posted

Imar Spaanjaars Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 is as good a beginners guide to Web Forms as you can get. Professional ASP.NET MVC 5 is (despite its title) also a good guide for beginning with MVC.

Answer 2

User1070744538 posted

As a freshly graduated CS student looking to find a good job, which method would you suggest? I was under the impression that MVC is the more recent method and is slowly replacing Web Forms. It that the case?

Answer 3

User-821857111 posted

Check with specialist recruitment agencies. I can only guess that they will say that you should definitely learn MVC, and they will also be able to tell you about the current demand for Web Forms skills.

I get the impression that most new development is done with MVC these days, but there are still a lot of Web Forms sites that need maintaining and expanding.