User-556181317 posted
Markus, I'll vote for ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed. Stephen Walther's first ASP.NET book was (I *think*) the first "Unleashed" book published by SAMS and was a sensation, spawning an entire line of "Unleashed" titles. I bought it after seeing all the
buzz about it, and it became a bible for months as I learned the new .NET world. He had a remarkable talent for boiling a concept or issue or problem down to a page or three, with code. You could read it end-to-end, but you could also pick it up
again and again to get over a hump and be off and running again within minutes.
I bought the 3.5 edition a couple of months ago. The author's talent for precisely and efficiently nailing issues and challenges you'll bump into regularly in day-to-day development is still there. And virtually ALL of the code in the book
is C# (VB code is on the accompanying CD).
Except for its weight (it's almost 2,000 pages, weighs nearly six POUNDS!) I have no complaints. Well, maybe one. I may be unusually thick but even this book, of the four I have that offer coverage of it, has not yet made me understand LINQ.
However it's the LINQ examples from this book that have let me move forward with my projects, even though I don't know WHY I'm doing what I'm doing.
