Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB (Programmer to Programmer) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, Devin Rader
Publisher: Wrox
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Edition: Pap/Onl
Pages: 1704
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ISBN: 0470187573
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.276
EAN: 9780470187579
ASIN: 0470187573
Publication Date: March 4, 2008
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Product Description
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.
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 Get a phonebook instead; it's free July 18, 2008
Concerned Citizen
I find it hard to believe the other reviews aren't plants by the publisher, or by people accidentally reviewing a similarly titled book. The introduction is full of documentation probably dumped from MSDN about obscure directives and their obscurer attributes. It reads like a phonebook. Writing the samples in both C# and VB is just another tactic to fill up 1600+ pages; here's one of the "gems" from the first chapter:
VB
If Page.IsPostBack = True Then
'Do Processing
End If
C#
if (Page.IsPostBack == true)
{
//Do Processing
}
As if the " == true" is not enough of a WTF, the book then goes on to say "In addition to checking for a true or false value, you can also handle postbacks like this," and gives the following example code:
VB
If Not Page.IsPostBack Then
'Do Processing
End If
C#
if (!Page.IsPostBack)
{
//Do Processing
}
So the target audience of this book is interested in reading a list of the public key tokens of the assemblies referenced by default in a "web.config" file, but they don't know how to negate a boolean value without someone holding their hand?
Excellent reference book for ASP.NET 3.5 (despite typos) July 12, 2008
James Skemp (Madison, WI United States)
Having read Imar Spaanjaar's Beginning ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB, I was expecting a number of good things from this book.
Imar's book is really great in that he shows you how to build a Web application with ASP.NET 3.5. However, with Professional ASP.NET 3.5 In C# and VB, you instead get 1500+ page reference book.
Now that's not necessarily a bad thing, but that does mean that if you want to get started with ASP.NET, pick up Imar's book first, or better still, too.
That said, this also means that if you're the type to read a book from beginning to end, you'll have a real 'joy' reading this book. That's because after a few chapters you'll notice that the author's clearly intended for people to skip around the book. This is evident because they'll discuss something in one chapter, and then reiterate it at the beginning of the next in such a way that suggests they assume you didn't just read this in the last chapter. But, that is good if you consider this as a reference book.
The other thing that will strike you is the number of typos in this book. I wasn't keeping track of all of them, such as words melding together, hard returns where there didn't need to be, incorrect figures, etcetera, but I did make note of, and submit, 29 errors in this book (25 of those from page 579 on - I wasn't keeping serious track before then). If you hear that they've done a special edition of this book, or a second edition, just spend the (extra) money and pick it up. Luckily, the code seems pretty clean.
Having said all that, I still think Professional ASP.NET 3.5 is an excellent reference book, and one that I'll be keeping on my shelf. Almost every one of the 34 chapters had at least one valuable thing in them, and in most cases, they had many. While some topics are skimmed over, they give a very indepth look to existing and new features, providing sources to further reference as needed (most of which are free Microsoft references online).
Together with Imar's Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 In C# and VB, I would definitely recommend this to anyone interested in ASP.NET 3.5. I would also recommend this reference book (last time, I promise :) ) to anyone who's worked with previous versions of .NET, and just needs to know how to advance their skills.
Encyclopedic about elements, but not enough substance July 6, 2008
Kanaifu (Redmond, WA USA)
Short commentary: The book is good and worth for your money.
Long commentary: The book is good, however, it is not excellent. They have tried to mention all the relevant elements of ASP.NET 3.5, and they have succeeded; never the less, it is more or less just list of an elementary examples.
The glue that would put all of them to real world use is not here, for such a book you will have to search other titles. I have also that kind of book, and - it has its own weaknesses. The best would be to have both books. Or one really big and complete book which would be twice thicker and about 4000 pages :-)....
Still it is a good read and for lot of people this will be really enough. Anyway, it all depends on how much you work when you put the book aside.
 Web Developer July 3, 2008
J. Gonzalez (USA)
Recieved book in excellent condition! The book is very organized and very constructive in teaching me what I need to learn in a step-by-step manner. I very much recommend this book!
For Managers June 26, 2008
Binoy Yonzon (USA)
There probably are less intensive .net books out there, but if you want a comprehensive treatment, this book is the way to go.
In my experience, .NET seems to be gaining grounds on J2EE in past few years, probably because of comparatively ease on implementation. While Java boasts one language that can run on multiple platforms, ASP.NET proves its worth the reverse way - multiple languages that can converge on one platform.
Each has its own strengths and weaknesses. In my opinion, if you have legacy applications based in VB or Visual C++ or COM technology that need to be ported or integrated into new system, ASP.NET will be your obvious choice. And if that is the case, this book will help.
My 2-Yen.
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