I was excited to get this book, since the Wrox books have been going down hill. I was disappointed to see that it teaches you all of the syntax in notepad, which is partly my fault, since I didn't have time to look far enough into the book to see that. I was expecting a book to show me how to develop ASP.NET pages in the Visual Studio .NET environment. Sure, you can code ASP.NET in notepad, but if you have a tool that does the repitious code for you, why use notepad? I work in a place where you have to work efficiently, and notepad is the worst way to create ASP.NET pages. I am hoping to take this back and get my money back, but I don't expect it. Anybody want my copy? I have no use for it.