Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 (Pro Developer) (Paperback)

by Dino Esposito (Author) "No matter how you design and implement a Web application, at the end of the day it always consists of a number of pages bound..." (more)
Key Phrases: session state module, site map provider, source object model, Visual Studio, Visual Basic, Windows Forms (more...)

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Product Description
Version 2.0 of Microsoft ® ASP.NET will be a major upgrade—and this guide offers an early, detailed look at exactly what’s changing in this powerful tool. The author—a highly regarded expert in the Microsoft .NET development community—guides you through new features, infrastructure changes, enhancements to data access and ASP.NET controls, and other critical insights. As you begin working with the beta release of the technology, this book provides focused, expert guidance—and downloadable code samples—for getting a head start on evaluating, planning for, and exploiting ASP.NET 2.0 capabilities.

About the Author
Trainer and consultant Dino Esposito is Wintellect’s ADO.NET expert. Based in Rome, Italy, he is a frequent speaker at popular industry events such as Microsoft TechEd, DevConnections, and WinSummit. Dino writes the monthly "Cutting Edge" column for MSDN® Magazine and the "Diving into Data Access" column for MSDN Voices. He regularly contributes to DNJ Online, MSDN News, and asp.netPRO magazine.He published Applied XML Programming for Microsoft .NET and Building Web Solutions with ASP.NET and ADO.NET, both from Microsoft Press. He is also the author of related programming books from other publishers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (August 25, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735620245
• ISBN-13: 978-0735620247
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #794,527 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Watch out! This book is out dated - Beta 2 broke most it., July 10, 2005

By	Bruce J. Mack (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book must have been written to ASP.NET beta 2 because a large portion is out right wrong and the companion content online is just as bad. Even worse most of the things that broke are the cool new stuff like themes & the new data view control. I could go on but you get the point. I contacted Microsoft press and got just an auto response. I also went to Wintellect's web site and there is no mention of the book at all. I'm sure Dino could fix up without to much trouble but I don't event know if he is aware of the situation and I haven't found any contact info for him. That was over a month ago a still no contact.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Samples don't work - no recourse, January 24, 2005

By	R. Way (Santa Monica, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Samples don't compile. There are a significant number of errors. I tried to contact MS Press but didn't receive a response. I then tried to contact the author using his "Contact Me" section on his web site. I also received no response (waited 3 weeks).

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Published in August 2004, January 15, 2006

By	J. Barlow (Denver Colorado) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have the Dino Exposito book, Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, and I recommend everyone to stay away from it. The company I work for received 2 of these books from a Microsoft rep and I understand why they are giving them away, it sucks. I do have experience with ASP.NET. I have been working with ASP.NET since the release of Beta 2 of ASP.NET 1.0. I started reading this book today and have realized that the content is based on the Beta. After readng the first chapter I have decided to find another book on ASP.NET 2.0. Based on Amazon's and Microsoft's Web site (http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/6962.asp) this book was published in August of 2004.