Jeff, I feel your pain, although I've not had a question list quite lke that one. You're right though, you do feel guilty when the recommended solution is ''buy my book''. If the solution is too complex to get over in a simple email I tend to try and give some pointers, list a few sites wth help and solutions and recommend the book. ...

Marcie is talking about multi-author books, with a particularly extreme case. I was never really a fan of large multi-author books, even though I've participated in a few. 4 to 6 authors is manageable if you can work well together. Wrox Professional ASP.NET is a good example, 5 authors, but we spent a day all locked in a room together (one of the ...

Code in books has always been a dilema; what language should we use? For books targetted at a aspecific language it's no problem, but what of books aimed at a technology, such as ASP.NET books. The general consensus is that C# programmers can generally read VB better than VB programmers can read C#. It's a catch-all statement, and obviously ...

There are a couple of Amazon reviews of Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 querying the use of Web Matrix as the tool in the book. I thought I'd use that as an excuse to explain some of the choices we have to make when writing books The issue of the development tool was a tough one for us, that perhaps in hindsight we didn't get quite right. I quite freely ...