This is the eBook version of the printed book.

ASP 3.5 Unleashed is the most comprehensive book on the Microsoft ASP 3.5 Framework, covering all aspects of the ASP 3.5 Framework -- no matter how advanced.

This edition covers all the new features of ASP 3.5. It explains Microsoft LINQ to SQL in detail. It includes a chapter on the two new data access controls introduced with the ASP 3.5 Framework: the ListView and DataPager controls. The author thoroughly covers ASP Ajax. Learn how to take advantage of Microsoft’s server-side Ajax framework to retrofit existing ASP applications with Ajax functionality. He also shows how to take advantage of Microsoft’s client-side Ajax framework to build the web applications of the future: pure client-side Ajax applications. All of the hundreds of code samples are written in C#. (If your preference is Visual Basic, Visual Basic 2008 versions of all of the code samples are included on the accompanying CD.)

• Take advantage of Microsoft’s new database query language, LINQ to SQL, to easily build database driven web applications.
• Learn how to use the new ListView and DataPager data access controls to build flexible user interfaces.
• Take advantage of Microsoft AJAX when building both server-side and client-side web applications.
• Use the AJAX Control Toolkit to create auto-complete text fields, draggable panels, masked edit fields, and complex animations.
• Design ASP websites
• Secure your ASP applications
• Create custom components
• Build highly interactive websites that can scale to handle thousands of simultaneous users
• Build a complete ASP 3.5 website from start to finish. The last chapter of the book includes a sample ASP 3.5 web application written with LINQ to SQL and ASP Ajax.