ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer`s Notebook for any programmer that wants to jump right in and discover what v2.0 has to offer. For anyone that is looking for an ASP.NET 2.0 reference book, this isn`t what you are looking for. If you want a guide that will give you and overview of all the neat new features of what MSFT`s newest set of toys gives you, this is a great guide. The Author breaks the book into the major new parts of what ASP.NET brings to the table, highlighting the following topics: Improved posting to self pages and other pages Improved validation routines in 2.0 Creating image maps with ADO.NET Creating master pages for a web site (very cool) Using TreeView controls on your page Adding dropdown menus to your site Using Web Parts to separate content on your pages Learning how GridView replaces DataGrid for viewing data Improved data caching with 2.0 XML communication all throughout ASP.NET (howto) Improved security in 2.0 These are just the major points that I have gotten out of this book, and it`s quite a bit. Again, if you are looking at this book as a reference, this isn`t what you are looking for. There are examples of all these topics, but the Author expects that you have some ASP and/or ASP.NET experience if you are using this book. This book is meant to be a notebook where it quickly gets to the heart of the matter, instead of dragging on and on and that`s exactly what the user does. For existing ASP.NET developers or any web developer who wants to learn why .NET is the present and future of web development, this is a great guide to learning all the new tricks that the wizards at Microsoft have come up with. I recommend this book to all web developers and I think you will find it extremely useful in your web careers.
