My latest bookwas just released new and improved and with a fresh mint taste! Last month my AJAX bookcame out and this month is it a book that is a continuation of a great series of ASP.NET books. This is an update to the best-selling Professional ASP.NET 3.5 book that the three of us put out about one year ago (time flies).
If you are an ASP.NET developer, I (no doubt) advise you to get this book as there has been plenty added to it to bring it up with the latest release of ASP.NET. This service pack (SP) release of ASP.NET is not a bug fix SP – but it is a release that include a lot of new features! So for us in doing this book, it wasn’t simple a matter of going back and making some corrections – but this was release of the book that covered all the new and exciting features that got packed into this service release. I have to say that this is an exciting release of ASP.NET and you will find some powerful items included in this version of ASP.NET.
This new edition of the book is more than 1800 pages – enough to knock you out if it falls off the shelf and hits you in the head! Because of the size – the book is available as a hard cover edition. You’ll find new chapter on the ADO.NET Entity Framework, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, and ADO.NET Data Services. There is also a new appendix on Silverlight 2.0 as well as an ‘ASP.NET Is Greater Than ASP.NET MVC’ appendix. You will also find that many of the chapters have been expended in one way or another to include new controls or capabilities.
Something different than my previous books is the inclusion of a CD-ROM that includes the entire book in PDF format. You will also find 7 (seven) complete PDF Wrox Blox books that normally sell for $6.99 (US) each. Currently, this book is only around 44 dollars on Amazon, so this is a great deal all around. Enjoy and happy coding!