I was going through my programming reference books the other day and it surprised me how many books I own published by Wrox. As I thumbed through several of the older ASP books, now
commonly referred to as Classic ASP, and progressed through the most
recent addition to my collection Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 it became obvious how influential Wrox has been in my career. I have books with subjects ranging from Search Engine Optimization with ASP.NET (SEO) to Professional DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals. I even have A Preview of Active Server Pages+ (which was the name for ASP.NET before it was ASP.NET).
In my opinion, Wrox's books give the reader a nice overview of their respective subjects with just enough
detail to convey a clear understanding. And
they are full of examples. Better yet, many times ASP.NET examples have both VB.NET and C# snippets. Entire applications, snippets, you name
it.
The stack of books is a real testament to how much
things have changed since I began
programming websites more than a decade ago. Through incessant
cyclical of client to server side programming emphasis-es this
publisher has altered their subject matter in like fashion and if you
are even remotely interested in web programming, I think Wrox is a
great place to start.
Oh, and my personal favorite is: ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming - Problem - Design - Solution, by Marco Bellinsaso.
