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Some time ago, I was asked to read "ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials" and write a review on this book.
The book gives an overview of the most common ASP.net data controls. For a developer like myself (I've been doing ASP.net for 6 years now... I'm getting old, I know), there's not a lot to discover I reckon. However, if you're not very experienced in ASP.net, at the end of the book, you should have seen the most common uses of the various data controls in .net.
The latter is also one of the problems of the book: the writer repeats for every control the basic stuff, along with way to much code that should be omitted in a printed book. Books need code snippets, not code that's irrelevant for the problem at hand. Also, quite a lot of errors, both in the code and in the writing of the text downgraded the overall rating for this book for me.
Overall score: 6/10