I managed to finish reading Essential ASP.Net. I received the book on Tuesday and read it cover to cover.

I found the book to be very informative, covering a few things that I was not familliar with and expanded my knowledge on things that I was somewhat familiar with. One of my favorite tips from the book was the Response.Output.Write method.

With classic ASP and even the ASP.NET that I had done, I have been using Response.Write and string concatentation to write text to the client.

Using the Response.Output TextWriter, I gain the capability to use String.Format equivalents.

For example:

Response.Output.Write("Line1: {0}<br>", line1);

I understand that this is a very simple example, but Im sure you get the idea.

I found a few spelling and grammatical errors in the book, which are really not that big of a deal, just a minor annoyance. Lastly, I found a few errors. The biggest one I found was that the DataGrid does not support AlternatingItemStyles. Last I checked, it did.

All in all, I think this a great book. I learned a lot from it and will gladly recommend it to anyone looking to expand their knowledge of ASP.NET.