I bought this book and have spent time skimming most of it and reading a few select chapters. In my opinion, it is an awsome resource for someone that wants to jump right in to ASP.NET with some greate code examples. The books structure is very useful for developers as each chapters follows an Overview, Design, Code and Explaination, and Setting Up the Project flow. The book and accompanying examples do a good job of using nicely tiered architecture, however, datasets where used (at least in the examples I delved into) more than I would have preferred. I'm not big on datasets and tend to avoid them whenever possible. I highly recommend this book to and developer new to ASP.NET 2.0 looking for some example applications to get them up and running.