Special Features: Previous version is the #1 best-selling ASP.NET 3.5 book (ISBN: 0470187573)" Stellar author team of Bill Evjen (INETA Founder and former president), Scott Hanselman (one of the top 2 ASP.NET bloggers and now Microsoft PM), and Devin Rader" 250 pages of new and revised content compared to the original Professional ASP.NET 3.5 (0470187573) adds hefty SP1 coverage of data access features for Entity Framework and dynamic data as well as ASP.Net Ajax Updates" Continues to include both C# and VB examples in the printed book as readers are evenly split between these 2 languages -- a feature not matched by ANY competitor

About The Book: Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 continues to set the standard for ASP.NET established by the earlier 2.0 and 3.5 versions of this book. Updated for ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 the author team of Bill Evjen (INETA Founder and former president), Scott Hanselman (well known for his www.computerzen.com blog and now a Microsoft ASP.NET PM), and Devin Rader (a well known technology evangelist and developer speaker) add 250 pages of great new and updated content compared to the original 3.5 version of the book.This edition retains many great features from previous versions, including both printed and downloadable VB and C# code examples and great feature coverage of core ASP.NET. The 3.5 versions focus even more on experienced programmers and advanced web development.The more than 250 pages of new and updated coverage for this edition includes:" New ASP.NET AJAX Back Button History / Script Combining" New ADO.NET Entity Framework" New ADO.NET Dynamic Data" New New WCF capabilities including changes to DataContractSerializer, new Atom and RSS outputs" New ADO.NET Data Services