Pro ASP.NET Core MVC Paperback – 16 Sept. 2016

This is an exceptional book. As a lapsed ASP classic programmer who, after 15+ years of not coding, is trying to pick up ASP.Net Core and C# I have found the current web programming environment confusing. I have purchased and followed a few books, which have not approached the subject with such rigour and clarity. The author takes you step by step through the topics that you need to build on to gain an understanding of how to build structured ASP.Net MVC applications. The author leads you away from drag and drop/scaffolding development, and the refactoring pain that ensues, instead demonstrating how to create concise strongly typed solutions based on standard design patterns resulting in re-useable code and ease of testing. I found the book challenging, encouraging further research into techniques and concepts to fully appreciate the constructs that the author present to the reader. I have been following the exercises in the book, initially using Visual Studio 2015. However, after having to install a later version of PowerScript to complete an exercise a known issue with VS2015 forced me to upgrade to Visual Studio 2017, in itself a painless process. The author has published updates to this edition, available from the website, to accommodate VS 2017 and I have experienced no real issues since the upgrade.

This book is great. Gets you coding straight away no pages of waffle.It explains the concepts clearly. I'm a novice and this books is very easy to follow.

I have wasted money on this book - even though it is very well written. 'Microsoft Stack' software development is just a joke nowadays because as soon as a book is published, it is already out-of-date!

Pre ordered this book of a new and evolving technology. Way out of date before it was even released. Won't buy V2 Unless I get it for half price.