ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed is the most comprehensive book available on the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Framework, covering all aspects of the ASP.NET 3.5 Framework--no matter how advanced.
This edition covers all the new features of ASP.NET 3.5. It explains Microsoft LINQ to SQL in detail. It includes a chapter on the two new data access controls introduced with the ASP.NET 3.5 Framework: ListView and DataPager. With its coverage of ASP.NET AJAX, this book shows you how to take advantage of Microsoft’s server-side AJAX framework to retrofit existing ASP.NET applications with AJAX functionality. It also demonstrates how to use Microsoft’s client-side AJAX framework to build the web applications of the future: pure client-side AJAX applications. All code samples are written in the C# programming language. (Visual Basic versions of all code samples are included on the CD-ROM that accompanies this book.)
Take advantage of Microsoft’s new database query language, LINQ to SQL, to easily build database-driven web applications
Learn how to use the new ListView and DataPager data access controls to build flexible user interfaces
Take advantage of ASP.NET AJAX when building both server-side and client-side web applications
Use the AJAX Control Toolkit to create auto-complete text fields, draggable panels, masked edit fields, and complex animations
Design ASP.NET websites
Secure your ASP.NET applications
Create custom components
Build highly interactive websites that can scale to handle thousands of simultaneous users
Learn to build a complete ASP.NET 3.5 website from start to finish–the last chapter of the book includes a sample ASP.NET 3.5 web application written with LINQ to SQL and ASP.NET AJAX
CD-ROM includes all examples and source code presented in this book in both C# and Visual Basic.
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Rating: - Best book on ASP.Net
I am pretty new to .net and I brought several books on the subject, I have to say this book is very detailed and very easy to follow. If anyone is looking to buy a book on this subject, I would totally recommend this one. I did go through Apress books on ASP.net for novice to beginners, which I thought was not that easy to follow. I would ask anyone who is looking to buy a book on ASP.Net to invest in this one, the size of the book can make you think twice but you will be surprised how easy it is ... Read More
Rating: - Thumbs Way Up!!!
This book is best suited for those already with a basic knowledge of C# and ASP.Net who just want to dive in and quickly get exposed to the vast array of features available in ASP.Net 3.5 for web application development. There are lots of things one can learn from this book. For example, do you know that the ASP.Net Visual Page Designer in Visual Studio 2008 now supports nested Master Pages, or that one can now build pages containing more than one logical forms (say, a Login and a Register form) ... Read More
Rating: - Good book but...
This is a good book. The reason for my 3 stars, is excessive forward references in this book. Basically you have to read this book backwards in some arbitrary order. If Ajax is one of the last sections of this book, there should be no Ajax discussion prior to its introduction. The book has also less than optimal editing. Almost every discussion has a full short example. It would have been nice to highlight the relevant parts of the example so that people didn't have to read the code line by line to ... Read More
Rating: - Best ASP.NET Reference Out There
This book is not a "How-To" book by any means. There aren't any projects that are built in stages, the chapters don't build on each other and there isn't a tutorial attitude in the writing. What it is though is a great reference work, with examples and tips for every facet of ASP.NET 3.5. By nature, ASP.NET 3.5 includes ASP.NET 2.0 and this book has a solid rework of the author's ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed content to match the 3.5 framework additions. As others have mentioned, it's a shame there wasn't ... Read More
Rating: - Ohhhhh yeah!
Stephen Walther's earlier book on ASP.NET was a well-worn bible, used pretty much daily for months as I learned about the new .NET world. I especially appreciated his tight focus. Almost any topic seemed to be brilliantly simplified and explained with just enough words and code to get me on my way quickly.
Five years later, Mr. Walther has not lost his touch. I've spent much of the day with this book and hope I can remember even half of the new insights I've gained. It's a good, measured ... Read More
- Best book on ASP.Net
- Good book but...
