CoolcAxBoop
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Hey, I was woundering if anyone had any good recommendations for a good ASP.net book, for someone who has never used the original ASP, VB, or VB.net. So, it needs to be a book that starts out on the basics, but it would be nice if it went all the way to some of the more advanced stuff as well.<BR><BR><BR>Also, I have a unix server with ASP, this should support ASP.net as well. Right?>Also, I have a unix server with ASP, this should support ASP.net as well. Right?<BR><BR>Unfortunately not. They are entirely different technologies...Not even Windows NT 4 supports it.<BR>You have to have Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional (Or Home, if you're using the free Microsoft Web Matrix development tool) Or the .Net Server Beta.<BR><BR>As far as books go...I'd say that the best beginning book I've seen is ASP.Net Unleashed, by Stephen Walther...Sam's Teach Yourself ASP.Net in 21 Days, by Chris Payne, is also excellent.Okay, the computer I am going to be developing on is running XP home, but my web server is running Redhat 7.1 and Apache, so I can't use ASP.net on that...is that correct?That is correct, at least for now. There is a team working to port the .Net framework to Linux, but who knows when it'll be ready.And even then they probably will have not gotten to the asp.net portion of the .net framework and emulating the interface with IIS. I would also suggest Programming ASP.net from oreilly.What level is that written at? Is it a beginner book, or for the more advanced ASP.Net programmer? And does it focus on VB.Net, or C#? <BR><BR>Interested for myself...