Win Your Copy: Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Edition in C# and VB
ISBN: 0470478268
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This is the most complete and comprehensive book on ASP.NET 3.5 SP1. Period. Also, the entire book is available in PDF format on the included CD-ROM, along with seven Wrox Blox titles. |
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Chapters 1 through 5 explain the core concepts of the ASP.NET Framework: Application & Page objects, server-side controls vs. client-side scripts, web server control details, validation controls, and master pages. These concepts should be familiar to experience ASP.NET developers.
There are a number of chapters devoted to other ASP.NET specific features. These include:
- Theming/Skinning
- Localization
- Configuration/Personalization
- Membership/Roles
- Navigation
- Data Binding
- User Controls
- Caching & State Management
Other chapters illustrate how to take advantage of core .NET Framework features within your ASP.NET applications:
- LINQ Queries
- Business Objects
- Entity Framework
- ADO.NET Data Services
There is also a detailed explanation of ASP.NET AJAX and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit in chapters 19 and 20.
The four appendices provide background information on migration from previous versions of ASP.NET, working with Silverlight 2 and ASP.NET, how ASP.NET MVC fits into the ASP.NET Framework, and related online resources for developers.
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sfc admin replied on Fri, 2009/05/01 - 9:36am
Bryan Migliorisi replied on Sat, 2009/05/02 - 11:37pm
All of my personal projects, as well as my production sites are powered with ASP.NET via C# and Ive already ordered a few ASP.NET MVC books that havent shown up yet, but I would love to learn more about EF and see how it can impact my data access layers.
Anand Natarajan replied on Sat, 2009/05/09 - 2:00am
The MVC Framework gives developers the flexibility to chose both the view and model engines to suite their needs.
Muhammad Soliman replied on Thu, 2009/05/14 - 5:53am
I've been working with Entity Framework since its release. And first thing I tried to do is to migrate an existing apllication using Linq to Sql to Entity Framework. Both have many things in common. But definatly Linq to Sql has better support for LINQ than Linq to Entites.
Recently I've started to join and open source project to implement EF models and repositories. The project is built using DDD, TDD and MVC. And there was an existing implementation for Linq to Sql. Another limitation I faced was testablity. But I got around this issue.
I wished that EF4 was there, it seems that it would resolve most of the limitations I face. EF is really promissing.
Using DDD with EF and ASP.NET MVC while applying DDD patterns (repositories, unit of work, domain factories, value objects etc...) is really good experiance to have. Both can make good compination together to build application using DDD especally that EF4 has lots to of support to DDD.