Asp.Net 3.5 Unleashed

This book is arriving right in Time. Much faster than the last release.

It is scheduled to be on the bookstands on 28th December.

Here is the link to know more.

 
More info:-

• Copyright 2008
• Dimensions 7x9-1/8
• Pages: 1900
• Edition: 1st.
• ISBN-10: 0-672-33011-3
• ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33011-7

Here is the list of Contents.

Table of Contents

PART I : Building ASP.NET Pages

Chapter 1 -- Overview of the ASP.NET Framework

Chapter 2 -- Using the Standard Controls

Chapter 3 -- Using the Validation Controls

Chapter 4 -- Using the Rich Controls

PART II: Designing ASP.NET Websites

Chapter 5 -- Designing Websites with Master Pages

Chapter 6 -- Designing Websites with Themes

Chapter 7 -- Creating Custom Controls with User Controls

PART III: Performing Data Access

Chapter 8 -- Overview of Data Access

Chapter 9 -- Using the SqlDataSource Control

Chapter 10 -- Using List Controls

Chapter 11 -- Using the GridView Control

Chapter 12 -- Using the DetailsView and FormView Controls

Chapter 13 -- Using the Repeater and DataList Controls

Chapter 14 -- Using the ListView and DataPager Controls

PART IV: Building Components

Chapter 15 -- Building Components

Chapter 16 -- Using the ObjectDataSource Control

Chapter 17 -- Building Data Access Components with ADO.NET

Chapter 18 -- Data Access with LINQ to SQL

PART V: Site Navigation

Chapter 19 -- Using the Navigation Controls

Chapter 20 -- Using Site Maps

Chapter 21 -- Advanced Navigation

PART VI: Security

Chapter 22 -- Using the Login Controls

Chapter 23 -- Using ASP.NET Membership

PART VII: Building ASP.NET Applications

Chapter 24 -- Maintaining Application State

Chapter 25 -- Caching Application Pages and Data

Chapter 26 -- Localizing Applications for Multiple Languages

Chapter 27 -- Working with the HTTP Runtime

Chapter 28 -- Configuring Applications

PART VIII: Custom Control Building  

Chapter 29 -- Building Custom Controls

Chapter 30 -- Building Templated Databound Controls

PART IX: ASP.NET AJAX

Chapter 31 -- Using Server-Side ASP.NET AJAX

Chapter 32 -- Using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

Chapter 33 -- Using Client-Side ASP.NET AJAX

PART X: Sample Application

Chapter 34 -- Building a Code Sample Website

Wrox's Professional ASP.NET 3.5 is publishing soon too (again by Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, and Devin Rader), but not before it's been completely, thoroughly checked against the RTM which is available today. So, all of the authors and editors will spend the next 6 weeks or so rechecking every line of code and then when it's completely verified to be working with the RTM, we'll ship it to the printer in mid-January and it will be available on store shelves around the end of February. We'd love to have it sooner but we just couldn't justify printing a book without checking it versus the RTM which is what it would have taken to have it available in December, we hope most ASP.NET developers can afford the wait.

The specs for it are:

• Copyright 2008
• pages: ~1800
• cost: $54.99 list price US
• ISBN-10: 0470187573
• ISBN-13: 978-0470187579

The table of contents is below, with some highlights on some of the completely new chapters and topics for 3.5.

1 Application and Page Frameworks
2 ASP.NET Server Controls and Client Side Scripts
3 ASP.NET Web Server Controls
4 Validation Server Controls
5 Working With Master Pages
6 Themes and Skins
7 Data Binding in ASP.NET 2.0
8 Data Management with ADO.NET
9 Querying with LINQ
10 Working with XML and LINQ to XML
11 IIS 7.0 Development
12 Introduction to the Provider Model
13 Extending the Provider Model
14 Site Navigation
15 Personalization
16 Membership and Role Management
17 Portal Frameworks and Web Parts
18 HTML and CSS Design with ASP.NET
19 ASP.NET Ajax
20 ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit
21 Security
22 State Management
23 Caching
24 Debugging and Error Handling
25 File I/O and Sharing
26 User and Server Controls
27 Modules and Handlers
28 Using Business Objects
29 Building and Consuming Services
30 Localization
31 Configuration
32 Instrumentation
33 Administration and Managament
34 The ASP.NET Project Lifecycle
35 Packaging and Deloying ASP.NET Applications
Appendix A Migrating Older ASP.NET Projects
Appendix B Tools of ASP.NET Developers
Appendix C Silverlight
Appendix D ASP.NET Resources

We've made room for all of this new material (more than 500 pages of new coverage compared to the original 2.0 book) by condensing some of the early coverage and deleting the mobile development chapter which will be posted for free download from Wrox.com instead.

Hello Jim,

Thanks for the information on Wrox Book.

It would be nice if you can add one single chapter on MVC, since the first CTP bits would be around in few weeks time. MVC is the most demanded solution by asp.net community and deserves a full book on its own.

Since Scott Hanselman one of your author has already worked a lot on this and it would be nice enough to have one chapter in this great book specially devoted to professionals.

I am sure you must be considering a full book on the subject of MVC as well.

Thanks for the suggestion. We've discussed MVC and yes, Scott knows a ton about it, but with MVC still in alpha or CTP (or something way less than release), one of the decisions we made in the book was to only cover items that have been released. This is a book that will be around for 18-24 months probably covering something that isn't released and will change a lot a few months after the book publishes doesn't make sense for most readers.

I expect the first thing we'll have on ASP.NET MVC is a Wrox Blox (http://www.wrox.com/go/blox) a 20-30 page inexpensive electronic download. And yes, a book is on the way too. :)

I there a link to download the free Asp.Net 3.5 Unleashed pdf book?