ASP.NET 3.5 is the latest version of Microsoft’s revolutionary ASP.NET technology. It is the principal standard for creating dynamic web pages on the Windows platform. Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008 raises the bar for high–quality, practical advice on learning and deploying Microsoft’s dynamic web solution.

Seasoned .NET professionals Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta explain how you can get the most from this groundbreaking new technology. They cover ASP.NET 3.5 as a whole, illustrating both the brand–new features and the functionality carried over from previous versions of ASP. This book will give you the knowledge you need to code real ASP.NET 3.5 applications in the best possible style.

The book will teach you ASP.NET 3.5 starting with core concepts to more advanced topics. You will learn

• Core concepts of ASP.NET 3.5. Why it’s special. What it’s fundamental principals are. The basics of Visual Studio. How ASP.NET 3.5 controls are created, and how they fit into ASP.NET 3.5 pages, ultimately creating full applications
• Data access details. The intricacies of ADO.NET and how to perform data binding to many sources from databases to file streams to XML. We include LINQ coverage so you’re on the bleeding edge
• Security. Once considered the Achilles heel of all Windows web applications, security has vastly improved and is a cornerstone of ASP.NET 3.5. This section explains the various forms of available security, and how to best apply them
• Taking things further using advanced user interface techniques. This includes user controls, customer server controls, client–side JavaScript, and GDI+.
• Web services. In an increasingly connected world, working with web services grows in importance. This book will show you how to work with them.
• ASP.NET AJAX, with an emphasis on comtemporary web development techniques
• Development using Internet Information Services 7, Microsoft’s premier web hosting platform.
• And much more.

Related Titles

• Pro ASP.NET 3.5 Server Controls with AJAX Components
• Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET 3.5, Second Edition
• Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition
• Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Book, lot of material on asp.net
Comment: This a great book, with lot of information. it starts from basics and gives every details a new asp.net developer needs to know..

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Customer Rating:
Summary: book review from AskBargains.com
Comment: very nice book, easy to follow. include almost all the details of the ASP.NET 3.5

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Customer Rating:
Summary: For anyone new to ASP.NET
Comment: I've been a professional software engineer for seven years with a background in .NET Windows development. I have no prior experience with web development and found this book to be a fantastic introduction to ASP.NET. Though it may not give you all the details, it's aptly titled, "Beginning ASP.NET..." and provides a strong understanding of ASP.NET concepts.

This is the third book I've purchased in order to learn ASP.NET and it is by far the best.

Though I wouldn't likely recommend this book to any seasoned ASP.NET developer looking to brush up on the new 3.5 features (that's not what this book is for) I would highly recommend it to anyone new to ASP.NET. After my misadventures with other ASP.NET books, I am thrilled with this one.

(A note to some of those giving low marks to the book: judge the book for what it is, not for what you want it to be. Buying a book titled "Beginning ASP.NET 3.5" and complaining that it doesn't have enough useful information for a professional ASP.NET developer is silly. I could just as easily give this book low marks for not going into enough detail on the C# language - but that's not what the book is for!)

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent: better than others
Comment: This was a breath of fresh air, and restored my hopes that some authors do care about training, really teaching, really conveying meaning -not just padding pages. This book gives excellent overviews of web development, of web-development with ASP.NET, and of Visual Studio. All topics thereafter are properly introduced, the big picture conveyed, before details explored. Code dumps are sparse and pertinent, not filler fluff. Writing style is of the highest quality: rich, correct, to the point, but interesting. The author makes the topic very exciting, and seems to know you, seems to know your level, what you need explained.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great book
Comment: This book is the best so far that I've read on ASP.NET. I will list the good points.

1. Explains the internal workings of ASP.NET and what goes on behind the scenes unlike other books who just teach you the syntax.

2. Explains the pros and cons of using different but related controls/classes so that we can make an intelligent choice.

3. Explains the properties of classes concisely and with simple examples.

4. Explains the history of Internet server, visual studio IDE, asp.net.

This is really an excellent, nearly comprehensive book touching on nearly all aspect of asp.net. However, it doesn't teach you C#, the programming language which is found on another book.

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