The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology, Essential Tips, Trick and Hacks

This is the book I wish I had when I was starting out with ASP.NET. Now, if you’d be so kind as to hop into a time machine, go back five years, and give me a copy, I’d be eternally grateful.

What’s that? Time machines haven’t been invented yet? Drat. I guess we’re stuck in the here and now.

Many ASP.NET books try to be complete, exhaustive references. They’re dense, fat books with an inflated sense of self-importance—books that take up lots of room on your bookshelf. But who actually reads these giant tomes of universal knowledge? Even if you could read one cover to cover, would it really be complete or exhaustive? The .NET framework is vast. As much as I’ve learned, I still discover new features of ASP.NET and the .NET Framework on a daily basis. And the platform itself is still actively evolving and growing. .NET 3.0 is already here, and .NET 3.5 is on the horizon.

This book is different from the rest. It doesn’t pretend to be a complete reference. It won’t waste your time with hundreds of pages on every obscure feature of ASP.NET. And it won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that it contains every last detail of ASP.NET.