.NET 2.0 Wrox Box: Professional ASP.NET 2.0, Professional C# 2005, Professional .NET 2.0 Generics, and Professional .N

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The professional developer''s best buy on .NET 2.0!

Includes

• Professional ASP.NET 2.0
• Professional C# 2005
• Professional .NET Framework 2.0
• Professional .NET 2.0 Generics
• CD-ROM with more than 700 pages of bonus chapters from 10 other .NET 2.0 and SQL Server™ 2005 Wrox books
• DVD with 180-day trial version of Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Professional Edition

Master ASP.NET 2.0''s power and time-saving features

With more than 50 new server controls, the number of classes inside ASP.NET 2.0 has more than doubled and the changes are sometimes dramatic. This book teaches you

• The pivotal role of the server control in ASP.NET development
• How to create templated ASP.NET pages with the master pages feature
• Debugging and error-handling techniques
• Frameworks that help you extract, create, manipulate, and store XML

Revolutionize the way you program

Get the fundamentals of C# plus essential background on the .NET architecture. Here''s what you must know to write dynamic Web pages, an XML Web service, a classic Windows desktop app, and more, including

• Principles of programming in the .NET environment
• How to use existing COM components with .NET applications
• Techniques for manipulating XML using C# 2005
• How to access databases with ADO.NET

Explore underlying platform commonalities you can use

Here''s an in-depth look at Common Language Runtime (CLR) fundamentals, Base Class Libraries (BCL), and the more advanced Framework libraries used in most managed applications. You''ll discover

• Details of the CLR''s architecture
• How assemblies work and options for deployment
• Specific portions of the BCL and advanced Framework libraries, including transaction libraries
• The secure programming model and forms of isolation and concurrency

Examine what you can achieve with generics

Generics bring a new dimension of type-safety, expressiveness, and performance to data types. Here''s comprehensive information on generics and the rules governing them, BCL generic types, the Power Collections library, and more, such as

• How to use generics to improve the type-safety of your code
• Steps for extending classes and introducing derivative generic types
• Guidelines for applying generics
• Ways to achieve runtime efficiencies

"Bill Evjen is an active proponent of .NET technologies and community-based learning initiatives for .NET. He has been involved with .NET since the first bits were released in 2000. That year Bill founded the St. Louis .NET User Group (www.stlnet.org), one of the world's first such groups. Bill is also the founder and executive director of the International .NET Association (www.ineta.org), which represents more than 375,000 members worldwide. Scott Hanselman is the Chief Architect at the Corillian Corporation with more than 13 years' experience developing software in C, C++, VB, COM, and VB.NET and C#. Scott is both a Microsoft RD as well as an MVP for both ASP.NET and Solutions Architecture. Christian Nagel is software architect and developer, associate of Thinktecture. He has written numerous .NET books; is certified as MCT, MCSD, and MCSE; and is Microsoft RD and MVP for Visual C# and is the regional manager of INETAEurope supporting .NET user groups. Joe Duffy is a Program Manager on the CLR Team at Microsoft, where he works on WinFX and the .NET Framework. Prior to joining the team he was a solutions architect at EMC Corporation. Joe has worked professionally with both Java and the .NET Framework and has interests in functional programming, compiler implementation, and complex algorithms. Tod Golding has 20 years of experience as a software developer, lead architect, and development manager for organizations engaged in the delivery of large-scale commercial and internal solutions. He has an extensive background leveraging .NET and J2EE technologies, and is skilled with C#, Java, and C++. Tod has worked and consulted at a variety of companies, including Microsoft and Borland. "