NET 2.0 Wrox Box : Professional ASP.NET2.0, Professional C# 2005, Professional .NET 2.0 Generics, and Professional .NET Framework 2.0

This work is the professional developer's best buy on .NET 2.0!

It includes: Professional ASP.NET 2.0; Professional C# 2005; Professional .NET Framework 2.0; Professional .NET 2.0 Generics; a CD-ROM with more than 700 pages of bonus chapters from 10 other .NET 2.0 and SQL Server[trademark] 2005; Wrox books DVD with 180-day trial version of Microsoft[registered] Visual Studio[registered] 2005; and, 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; and, frameworks that help you extract, create, manipulate, and store XML.

It helps you to revolutionize the way you program and 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.It covers: how to use existing COM components with .NET applications; techniques for manipulating XML using C# 2005; how to access databases with ADO.NET; and, 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; and, ways to achieve runtime efficiencies.