Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: Includes Silverlight 2 (Expert's Voice in .NET) [Paperback]

Matthew MacDonald (Author), Mario Szpuszta (Author)

Book Description

Series: Expert's Voice in .NET | Publication Date: December 25, 2008

ASP.NET 3.5 was released in November 2007 and has proven itself a great success within the Microsoft web-development community, as sales of the Second Edition of this book have shown. During the course of 2008 Microsoft is launching a number of upgrades and additions that enhance ASP.NETs functionality.

This Third Edition is a revision of the popular Second Edition text that includes coverage of the Silverlight web-presentation technology, Silverlight ASP.NET controls, ASP.NET MVC, the ASP.NET Extension package and the ADO.NET Entity Framework. These technologies have all been released since ASPs official publication and exte nd its capacities considerably. They will be covered within the third edition without increasing the book’s page-count.

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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 [e-mail].

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1520 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 3rd ed. edition (December 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430215674
• ISBN-13: 978-1430215677
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #424,160 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Patrick, February 17, 2009

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This review is from: Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: Includes Silverlight 2 (Expert's Voice in .NET) (Paperback)

This third edition is yet another outstanding textbook in the first author's collection and his writing skills seem to improve with every book. As the contents can be seen at a glance, it remains to say that each topic is, in fact, dealt with in a most comprehensive manner. In order to remove any ambiguity that might remain from any descriptive passage, there are rich examples that accompany each chapter. In fact, it was the superb set of examples for every chapter that were included with Matthew MacDonald's Pro WPF in C# 2008, second edition, that prompted me to buy this book, for which I have no regrets However, it is perhaps advisable to work through Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008, second edition, especially for the database work, before moving on to this book.

If Matthew MacDonald keeps up this standard of writing and presentation, not only for as ASP.NET, but also for WPF and Silverlight, it is going to be very difficult for any other author to do better. Despite the fact that other viewpoints are, and should be, always welcome, I find myself returning to MacDonald's books for helping me reach a more solid understanding.

I would like to conclude with a message to the publishers: the layout and print for the Beginning... book is excellent, if the heavy content is borne in mind. Unfortunately, there seems to have been some downsizing on the font size in the Pro... book that seems to make it disproportionally harder (for me, at least) to read. Perhaps, when better economic times come, the publishers would consider going to two volumes for Pro... books for what, each time, is a huge amount of reading material.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008, March 24, 2010

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This review is from: Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: Includes Silverlight 2 (Expert's Voice in .NET) (Paperback)

This book is intended as a primer for professional developers who have a reasonable knowledge of server-side web development. This book doesn't provide an exhaustive look at every ingredient in the .NET Framework in fact, such a book would require twice as many pages. Instead, this book aims to provide an intelligent introduction to ASP.NET for professional programmers who don't want to rehash the basics.Along the way youll focus on other corners of the .NET Framework that youll need in order to build professional web applications, including data access and xml. Using these features youll be able to create future generation web sites. To get the most from this book you should be familiar with the syntax of the c# language and with object oriented concepts. You don't need to have experience with a previous version of asp.net. all the fundamentals are covered in this book. If you're an experienced java or c++ developer with no .NET experience, you should consider supplementing this book with an introduction to .NET.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect book for your ASP application..., June 9, 2009

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This review is from: Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: Includes Silverlight 2 (Expert's Voice in .NET) (Paperback)

I can say I actually read most of this book and in every chapter there was something that was useful and the way it laid it out was perfect. I have used several books from Apress but this one was really full of information and it covers so much on ASP that I want to keep it handy. Advanced ASP programmers will find this book handy as it covers the latest in 3.5 and also Silverlight 2.
The topics covered in this book are great for beginners but it also covers some great topics for the more advanced user. If you are looking into learning more about ASP, this is the book to get. Don't be intimidated by the 1300+ pages because every page will sure talk about something that you could use in an ASP application.