Who this book is for
If you have a core set of Visual Basic programming skills, the kind you should get from any beginning book like our Visual Basic 2008, you're ready for this book. In fact, we're confident that it will teach you ASP.NET faster and better than any competing book. That's true whether you're new to web programming or you're coming to it with a background in ASP.NET, classic ASP, or Java servlets/JSP.
If you have the 2.0 edition of this book...
ASP.NET has matured into a stable platform for web development. So there aren't the major, fundamental changes in 3.5 that there were in 2.0.
Even so, this 3.5 edition offers you:
- a new chapter on the ListView and DataPager controls
- a new chapter on LINQ data sources
- a new chapter on AJAX
- expanded material on object data sources
- coverage of new CSS-related tools
- updated material from start to finish
As a result, we recommend you get a copy of this new edition. It will easily pay for itself, both in training you to take advantage of 3.5 features and in providing you with an up-to-date reference you'll keep close at hand.
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