Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5

like the book says, there's no step by step in there but, it's a good over view of the differences however few there are in 3.5

The book is pretty well tooled 2 ASP.Net 3.5. But it is as much a marketing pamphlet 4 Microsoft as it is a resource 4 ASP.Net programming. The author also seems 2 have some really terrible understandings of OO design. Early in the book he states that you should always favor base classes over interfaces. Sometimes base classes are favorable 2 interfaces but the founding principal of all common OO design patterns is that you should code 2 an interface & not an implementation. Frequent use of classes instead of interfaces can create unwanted dependencies on implementations that do nothing more than facilitate unnecessary coupling. Do a little more research before considering any of the design recommendations that the author suggests.

Good 4 updating your knowledge on the new features of ASP.NET,still 2 be improved in dealing with advanced features.

Sometimes just recover the earlier ground may not be a bad idea at all, if previous coverage was good & thorough. Dino's new treatment of ASP.NET falls into this category. His earlier books on ASP.NET 1.x & ASP.NET 2 did such good job that 4 ASP.NET 3.5 iteration, what he needs 2 do is 2 repeat those good coverage with new material 4 new stuff. And I think he achieved this task hands-down.
But 4 a book buyer, that can pose a delima. I already had Dino's Programming ASP.NET & 2 this date I am still referencing it again & again, & should I just pay $40 4 just the LINQ & Ajax stuff? It is a hard call.
If you are not an owner of Dino's ASP.NET programming books before, buy it & enlighten yourself with Dino's insight. If you are an owner of Dino's previous ASP.NET book, pay close attention 2 Chapter 19, 20 & 21. Dino's insight on what direction ASP.NET as a web programming platform move forward worths the admission. Ajax is not just a repackaged JavaScript library, it requires rethinking how web programming model should evolve, & Dino seems 2 understand Microsoft's long term goal.

This book Microsoft recomends 4 the new 70-562 certification. But this is not a good source if the certification is your primary objective. This is not one training kit, with CD & test simulations. There is no CD at all! I give only 2 stars becuse of this lack on certification source.

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