I was looking at ASP.NET books over the weekend, and I found that the majority of books that cover ASP.NET choose to do so using VB.NET rather than the relatively easy and extremely powerful C#. I wonder why this is? Oldskool VB was definately easier than C++. Today VB.NET is almost as (if not just as) complex as C# (IMHO), while C# seems to be more simple and elegant.
I picked up ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials and Code at MicroCenter over the weekend (for $4.99!) and it tries to cover both VB and C#, though it is extremely biased towards VB. I’m really not going to complain for what I paid, but if it had been any more than five bucks, I probably couldn’t justify it.
Doing ASP.NET in VB seems like buying a Bentley with a four-banger.
On a related note, I also picked up Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI for half off at a computer show.
I’ve been doing some skimming of both books, but I’d really like to dive in.