Building on the revolutionary ASP.NET 2.0 release, ASP.NET 3.5 adds several key new developer features including AJAX, LINQ, and a new CSS designer in Visual Web Developer 2008. The dramatic reduction in code that developers realized from the more than 50 new server controls in ASP.NET 2.0 now allows developers the time to make their applications more interactive with AJAX, to work with data in their preferred language with LINQ, and to build visually attractive and consistent standards-based sites with CSS.
Professional ASP.NET 3.5 helps the experienced programmer put these new technologies into action. Greatly expanded from the original best-selling Professional ASP.NET 2.0, Professional ASP.NET 3.5 covers all the key technologies retained from 2.0 in new depth alongside the hundreds of pages of coverage of the important new 3.5 features. Written by 3 of the most well-known and influential ASP.NET developers who were highly praised by ASP.NET creator Scott Guthrie for their ASP.NET 2.0 books, Professional ASP.NET 3.5 is the book you'll learn the language from and turn to day after day as you write web applications. And as always, Professional ASP.NET 3.5 features language examples in the book and in the code download in both C# and VB!
Key new coverage for ASP.NET 3.5 includes:
Thorough coverage of how to implement ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX and the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit
An introduction to LINQ and many LINQ examples throughout the book side-by-side with the related SQL example to show you the differences between the two
Enhanced coverage of XML use in ASP.NET including the new XML Schema Designer Add-on, LINQ to XML, LINQ for XML examples, and XSLTC.exe, a command-line XSLT compiler
A new chapter on CSS design for ASP.NET and the Visual Web Developer CSS design tools
A new chapter on the ASP.NET lifecycle and architecture best-practices
Increased coverage of ASP.NET with SQL Server 2005 and Oracle as the databases
Coverage of enhancing your ASP.NET applications with Microsoft's new Silverlight for stunning video and animation uses
Coverage of Scott Hanselman's famous productivity tool picks for developers to help make you a more productive ASP.NET developer
Updated coverage of migrating applications for previous ASP.NET versions
Key coverage retained and improved from the ASP.NET 2.0 book:
The idea of the server control and its pivotal role in ASP.NET development
How to create templated ASP.NET pages using the master page feature
Techniques for debugging and handling errors
Ways to package and deploy ASP.NET applications
How to retrieve, update, and delete data quickly and logically
How to implement the cultures and regions features to localize your web site into multiple languages for different visitors
An understanding of how to use and extend the provider model for accessing data stores, processes, and more
How to keep track of your application's performance and health with monitoring tools
Who this book is for
This book is for experienced programmers and developers who are looking to make the transition to ASP.NET 3.5.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Awesome:
Simply put, this is the best tech book I've read on a topic in quite a while. The authors do a great job of covering almost all important topics of asp.net. For any given topic, the writing is easily readable, thurough, filled with examples, and a mimimum of full. If you want to learn about asp.net 3.5, start here.
This one Rocks... er... Wrox!!:
Bill, Scott, and Devin really did a great job pulling together key topics in ASP.NET 3.5.
This book is huge... weighting in at 1,584 pages not counting the online resources and index.
It basically covers everything any developer would want to brush up on or learn completely from scratch. I was only looking to learn about caching for scaling issues( and it was a great chapter 23), but I learned about so much more. I recently got a new job as a Lead ASP.NET developer and the site I have to fix is... more info
Uncharacteristically inadequate for a Wroth book.:
I am about a third into this and have found the book to be somewhat disappointing relatively to other Wrox books. My areas of concern include the following:
- Lots of editing errors, spelling errors, and references to figures that are not what the descriptions suggest.
- Wrox book strengths are in their good examples. Most of the examples in this book are so trivial as to not demonstrate anything except perhaps syntax.
- Some topics are not explained beyond the listing of the features and... more info
Comprehensive ... maybe, too much so:
I use the Wrox Peer 2 Peer books -- such as this one -- basically as documentation. And in that vein, this is a strong entry. But if you're hoping to use this book to learn how to program, you're probably better off with the For Dummies series. My copy of this book came directly from Amazon. Unfortunately, it was misbound, with an extra 150+ pages from Chapter 3 pasted into Chapter 8. It's little more than an annoyance, but keep in mind your copy may too be misbound when you get it. Very little of... more info
