ASP.NET 2.0 MVP HACKS & TIPS

Microsoft's Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are recognized, credible, and accessible individuals with expertise in Microsoft products that actively participate in online and offline communities to share their knowledge and expertise.

When working to solve a problem with ASP.NET, or debug a troubled application, there's not a better group to turn to than the MVPs. During their many years of working with ASP.NET, Microsoft MVPs have answered thousands of questions, putting them in the distinctive position of knowing exactly what developers need to know. Packed with superlative advice on ASP.NET, Microsoft's popular technology for Web sites, ASP.NET 2.0 MVP HACKS & TIPS (Wiley Publishing; June 2006; $39.99) will help readers become more productive developers, find solutions to problems they thought unsolvable, and develop better applications. This unique book offers readers invaluable information from the cream of the crop, Microsoft MVPs, who are now sharing undocumented hacks for the first time.


As Microsoft MVPs, this team of authors has witnessed first-hand the innumerable problems and challenges that even the most experienced developers regularly encounter. This project survival guide offers little-known solutions, undocumented features, tips, and tricks that readers can use to build and deliver real-life applications using ASP.NET. Written with the seasoned professional in mind, this book is for experienced developers familiar with ASP.NET programming who are looking to take their skills from an "average" to "excellent" level. Inside ASP.NET 2.0 MVP HACKS & TIPS, readers will learn:

Various hacks such as page templates, multiple forms, URL rewriting, and SQL cache dependencies

The many improvements in ASP.NET 2.0 that were originally hacks but are now part of the base product

How the many new built-in functions reduce the amount of code needed for the most common applications

Written with the seasoned professional in mind, readers will benefit from the extensive experience of the authors as they explain how to adapt various hacks to a specific application and business environment. WROX MVP HACKS AND TIPS provides unique and little-known solutions to complex programming challenges.


ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
David Yack is the president of Colorado Technology Consultants, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner based in Colorado. He is a Microsoft Regional Director and a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET. As a senior hands-on technology and business consultant with over 18 years of industry experience, David enjoys developing applications for both the Windows and Unix platforms, specializing in large system architecture and design. David embraced .NET during the final beta days of version 1.0 and has been helping clients migrate and build new applications on the technology, as well as helping to mentor and train their staffs. David is a frequent speaker at user group and industry events and is on the author teams of two NET 2.0–related books. David also founded and is on the leadership team for the South Colorado .NET User Group.

Joe Mayo runs his own company, Mayo Software, and is an author, consultant, and instructor specializing in .NET technologies. He operates the C# Station website (http://www.csharp-station.com) and is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Joe's previous books include C# Unleashed (Sams) and C# Builder Kick Start (Sams).

Scott Hanselman is currently the chief architect at the Corillian Corporation (NASDAQ: CORI), an eFinance enabler. He has over 13 years experience developing software in C, C++, VB, COM, and certainly in VB.NET and C#. Scott is proud to be both a Microsoft RD as well as an MVP for both ASP.NET and Solutions Architecture. Scott has spoken at dozens of conferences worldwide, including three TechEds and the North African DevCon. He is a primary contributor to "newtelligence DasBlog Community Edition 1.8," the most popular open-source ASP.NET blogging software hosted on SourceForge. This is the fourth book Scott has worked on for Wrox.

Fredrik Normén is a consultant who works for Callista Knowledgebase AB. He works mostly as a mentor, solution developer, architect, and instructor. He has worked with the .NET framework since the first bit of .NET 1.0 was released in 2000. He has over 10 years of experience building web applications, started with Perl and moving on to ASP and ASP.NET.

Dan Wahlin (Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET and XMLWeb Services) is the president of Wahlin Consulting LLC, which provides enterprise consulting and training services as well as ASP.NET server controls. He also founded the XML for ASP.NET Developers website (http://www.XMLforASP.net), which focuses on using XML, ADO.NET and Web Services in Microsoft's .NET platform. Dan is a regular speaker at different .NET conferences and is a member of the INETASpeaker's Bureau, which enables him to interact with .NET user groups around the United States. He has also authored/co-authored five books on various .NET technologies and writes for several technical magazines.

J. Ambrose Little is an ASP Insider and Microsoft MVP who works as a senior software engineer for a Tampa-based commercial software company and as the content director for ASPAlliance.com. He's an author of numerous articles, co-author of Professional ADO.NET 2 and ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips, and has spoken at various .NET user groups and events in Florida.

Jonathan D. Goodyear is the president of ASPSOFT, Inc, a software consulting company based out of Orlando, Florida. He is a contributing editor for both Visual Studio Magazine and asp.netPRO Magazine, and frequently speaks at major technology conferences such as VSLive and ASP.NET Connections. Jonathan was a featured speaker at the Visual Studio 2005 Launch Event in Orlando, Florida, and speaks at numerous .NET user groups through the International .NET Association (INETA). He wrote one of the first books about .NET development, Debugging ASP.NET (New Riders Publishing), and appeared in a video, Visual Studio .NET: An Introduction, by WatchIT.com. He is the founder and editor of the online magazine angryCoder.com, and is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for ASP.NET, an ASP Insider, and the Microsoft regional director (RD) for Florida.


ASP.NET 2.0 MVP HACKS AND TIPS
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Publication date: June 5, 2006
$39.99; Paperback; 432 pages; ISBN: 0-7645-9766-3

Wiley books are available at your local bookstore or by calling 1-800-225-5945. In Canada, call 1-800-567-4797.



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