From there you will look at how to restrict authenticated users with authorization rules and the use of role-based security. Next, you will explore the profiles feature which is a prebuilt solution for storing user specific information, and then finally you will see how to protect the data you store in a database and how to design a custom membership provider.
Section 5, "Advanced User Interface," shows you how to extend web pages with advanced techniques like custom controls, the use of GDI+, and the ASP.NET Web Parts features to create web portals.
Section 6, "Client-Side Programming," now gets into some of the newest innovations of web development. You begin by looking at how to use JavaScript and Ajax technologies in your ASP.NET web pages for a more responsive client-side experience. Then you will learn how to make your web pages more dynamic by implementing auto completion, drag and drop, as well as other topics to enhance your user's experience.
Finally you will explore the world of Silverlight, Microsoft's plug-in that gives you the ability to bring rich graphics, animation, sound, and video to your basic web page on a variety of browsers and operating systems.
Once again Pro ASP.NET 3.5 In C# 2008 is an outstanding textbook on working with ASP.NET. Each and every chapter has outstanding examples of the concepts described. In fact the whole layout of the book is equally well done.
Adding to the hefty 1500-plus pages are an additional four chapters that are available online. There is one that examines how to use resources and localization in ASP.NET as well as three chapters on working with web services.
The focus of the book is really on development and not on design so you won't learn XHTML or CSS here, but the author covers the fundamentals of C# along with explaining the basis for ASP.NET and does it very well. It is a book that delves into the meat of the framework and explains the "hows" and "whys" of working with ASP.NET without getting all technical or complex and so it makes it an easy read.
Pro ASP.NET 3.5 In C# 2008 is aimed at professional developers who have a reasonable knowledge of server-side web development and want to get up to speed on ASP.NET. You also need to have a reasonable understanding of the C# language and object-oriented concepts, but if you do then this is a great book for getting to that professional level of ASP.NET. I highly recommend this book.
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