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ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed is the most comprehensive book available on the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Framework, covering all aspects of the ASP.NET 3.5 Framework--no matter how advanced.

This edition covers all the new features of ASP.NET 3.5. It explains Microsoft LINQ to SQL in detail. It includes a chapter on the two new data access controls introduced with the ASP.NET 3.5 Framework: ListView and DataPager. With its coverage of ASP.NET AJAX, this book shows you how to take advantage of Microsoft’s server-side AJAX framework to retrofit existing ASP.NET applications with AJAX functionality. It also demonstrates how to use Microsoft’s client-side AJAX framework to build the web applications of the future: pure client-side AJAX applications. All code samples are written in the C# programming language. (Visual Basic versions of all code samples are included on the CD-ROM that accompanies this book.)

• Take advantage of Microsoft’s new database query language, LINQ to SQL, to easily build database-driven web applications
• Learn how to use the new ListView and DataPager data access controls to build flexible user interfaces
• Take advantage of ASP.NET AJAX when building both server-side and client-side web applications
• Use the AJAX Control Toolkit to create auto-complete text fields, draggable panels, masked edit fields, and complex animations
• Design ASP.NET websites
• Secure your ASP.NET applications
• Create custom components
• Build highly interactive websites that can scale to handle thousands of simultaneous users
• Learn to build a complete ASP.NET 3.5 website from start to finish–the last chapter of the book includes a sample ASP.NET 3.5 web application written with LINQ to SQL and ASP.NET AJAX

CD-ROM includes all examples and source code presented in this book in both C# and Visual Basic.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part I Building ASP.NET Pages

1 Overview of the ASP.NET Framework 7

2 Using the Standard Controls 61

3 Using the Validation Controls 123

4 Using the Rich Controls 181

Part II Designing ASP.NET Websites

5 Designing Websites with Master Pages 237

6 Designing Websites with Themes 269

7 Creating Custom Controls with User Controls 297

Part III Performing Data Access

8 Overview of Data Access 337

9 Using the SqlDataSource Control 379

10 Using List Controls 437

11 Using the GridView Control 481

12 Using the DetailsView and FormView Controls 563

13 Using the Repeater and DataList Controls 619

14 Using the ListView and DataPager Controls 657

Part IV Building Components

15 Building Components 687

16 Using the ObjectDataSource Control 737

17 Building Data Access Components with ADO.NET 809

18 Data Access with LINQ to SQL 901

Part V Site Navigation

19 Using the Navigation Controls 971

20 Using Site Maps 1041

21 Advanced Navigation 1081

Part VI Security

22 Using the Login Controls 1103

23 Using ASP.NET Membership 1161

Part VII Building ASP.NET Applications

24 Maintaining Application State 1221

25 Caching Application Pages and Data 1289

26 Localizing Applications for Multiple Languages 1369

27 Working with the HTTP Runtime 1403

28 Configuring Applications 1443

Part VIII Custom Control Building

29 Building Custom Controls 1499

30 Building Templated Databound Controls 1569

Part IX ASP.NET AJAX

31 Using Server-Side ASP.NET AJAX 1597

32 Using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit 1657

33 Using Client-Side ASP.NET AJAX 1695

Part X Sample Application

34 Building a Code Sample Website 1773

Index 1797

Jul 14, 2008     Techie Evan
Thumbs Way Up!!!
This book is best suited for those already with a basic knowledge of C# and ASP.Net who just want to dive in and quickly get exposed to the vast array of features available in ASP.Net 3.5 for web application development. There are lots of things one can learn from this book. For example, do you know that the ASP.Net Visual Page Designer in Visual Studio 2008 now supports nested Master Pages, or that one can now build pages containing more than one logical forms (say, a Login and a Register form) courtesy of validation group magic? Even the author's discussion of LINQ to SQL contain some materials I have not seen covered in other introductory books dedicated solely to LINQ. Although some chapters contain forward references to future chapters, each chapter is mostly self-contained and therefore, in my opinion, the chapters can be read in arbitrary order, which makes this book a really good reference book.

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