The first edition of asp.net unleashed was a huge success, the second edition with 1.1 coverage was also appreciated. Now the asp.net 2.0 book is much wanted/awaited book today.
Here are few details as mentioned on sams publishing web site. I found it interesting, hence i have placed it here as a quick reference for you all. The best part of the book is .....it comes with Vb and C# codes side by side. The book is huge enough with 1992
pages.
Here is the description of book as mentioned on website...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed is a revision of the best-selling ASP.NET Unleashed,
by Microsoft Software Legend Stephen Walther. Itcovers virtually all features of ASP 2005 including more than 50 new controls, personalization, master pages, and web parts. All code samples are presented in VB and C#. Throughout the
more than 2,000 pages, you will be shown how to develop state-of-the-art Web applications using Microsoft's latest development tools. An included CD will give you a copy of Visual Web Developer 2005, which is the official Microsoft development environment
for ASP 2005. This resource is guaranteed to be used as a reference guide over and over!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The table of contents...
I Building ASP.NET Pages
1 Overview of the ASP.NET Framework
2 Using the Standard Controls
3 Using the Validation Controls
4 Using the Rich Controls
II Designing ASP.NET Websites
5 Designing Websites with Master Pages
6 Designing Websites with Themes
7 Creating Custom Controls with User Controls
III Performing Data Access
8 Overview of Data Access
9 Using the SqlDataSource Control
10 Using List Controls
11 Using the GridView Control
12 Using the DetailsView and FormView Controls
13 Using the Repeater and DataList Controls
IV Building Components
14 Building Components
15 Using the ObjectDataSource Control
16 Building Data Access Components
V Site Navigation
17 Using the Navigation Controls
18 Using Site Maps
19 Advanced Navigation
VI Security
20 Using the Login Controls
21 Using ASP.NET Membership
VII Building ASP.NET Applications
22 Maintaining Application State
23 Caching Application Pages and Data
24 Localizing Applications for Multiple Languages
25 Working with the HTTP Runtime
26 Configuring Applications
VIII Building Applications with Web Parts
27 Introduction to Web Parts
28 Building Web Parts
29 Personalizing Web Parts
30 Extending the Web Part Framework
IX Custom Control Building
31 Building Custom Controls
32 Integrating JavaScript in Custom Controls
33 Building Templated Databound Custom Controls
X Sample Application
34 Building an E-Commerce Application
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The book is coming out on 9th june 2006. Just few days to go.
User-392984398 posted
ebooks.com has it here http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=258884, however you dont get cd content but great for those doing VB, I happened to purcahse only to find out later that it was only in VB and the actual C# content was on the cd which
is not even provided to ebooks, however I am working on being able to download the content.
If you want the book the samspublishing site is the cheapest around.
However from what I have read so far, this seems like a great book and alot better at explaining by example rather then assuming knowledge. While I am totally new to any .net language, I am still finding it easy enough to decifer, although it does say it recomends
people reading either a Vb or C# book first, but if I run into any difficulties coming straight from a php background i will let you guys know.
