Product Description

ASP.NET 3.5 is Microsoft’s next generation web-development technology building upon the successful ASP.NET 2.0 platform and augmenting it with a number of key new features. The most prominent of these are ASP.NET AJAX (formerly code-named Atlas) for improving user-interface design and Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for revolutionizing the way .NET code interacts with database information. This book is the second edition of Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta’s well-regarded title. It has been comprehensively updated to provide detailed coverage of all.NET 3.5’s new features within the same framework and writing style that made the previous editions so successful.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #205229 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1498 pages

About the Author
Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he's the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET Distributed Applications. In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics. Send e-mail to him with praise, condemnation, and everything in between, to p2p@prosetech.com.

Mario Szpuszta is working in the Developer and Platform Group of Microsoft Austria. Before he started working for Microsoft, Mario was involved in several projects based on COM+ and DCOM with Visual Basic and Visual C++ as well as projects based on Java and J2SE. With Beta 2 of the .NET Framework, he started developing Web applications with ASP.NET. Right now, as developer evangelist for Microsoft Austria, he is doing workshops, trainings, and proof-of-concept projects together with independent software vendors in Austria based on .NET, Web Services, and Office 2003 technologies.

Customer Reviews

Very very good
I have a lot of asp.net books but this is the best by far. It's clear, well written and the examples are relevant. I've been programming .net since version 1.1, and its nice that I'm bumping into stuff that I just didn't know before. Anyway, to put it simply, I can't recommend this book enough, I've packed all my others away :)

Coverage and depth
What more can I say? Its all in here and with plenty of examples to show how it all works too. Nice writing style makes for easy reading - but at 1498 pages you ain't going to get through it in a day. Its great for dipping in and out of and for looking up the specifics of C#/ASP topics - or pick a chapter and enhance your knowledge.

Very, very impressed by this - its my first APress book, but it won't be my last.

Excellent book about newest technology!
This is excellent book for all people who's interesting learn about ASP.NET 3.5. It also serves as a great reference.
In this book You can find all interesting important information about creating powerful web application in Microsoft Technology with C#. Interesting chapters have a lot of examples,

charts, and pictures illustrated all topics in this book. I think this is the best resource about the newest web technology.

This book is good for all developers, from people who's create first application on NET Framework and for experts and professional developers. Matthew MacDonald and Mario

Szpuszta prepare book, where You can easly find everything information about development with ASP.NET, from core concepts (NET Framework strategy, working with Visual

Studio 2008) to advanced security sections and building custom controls and weparts with ASP.NET technology. Additional, writers add to book some special chapters about Linq,

AJAX and Silverlight. This is good introduction to these technology, too.

Everyday I work with building internet application and websites, and I using this book in my work. It's incredibly source of examples, best practices and information about my

favourite web technology. I have a two, the best chapters,and I like read this two, three ... and when I read this I always found new features in ASP.NET.
I like chapters about advanced user interface techniques where developers can learn about user controls, customer server controls, using JavaScript in client-side features and

GDI+ with ASP.NET applications, and chapter about development applications with Internet Information Services 7, Microsoft's premier web hosting platform.

Mathew and Mario does a great job relating everything to real world scenarios. He also provides very usable code samples.

If you are developing in ASP.NET 3.5, this is a must have book. I recommend this book for everythink who thinking about creating good and professional applications for web.