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Sometimes developers get bored by reading traditional ASP.NET 2.0 books — they often only provide concepts. But as a developer gets familiar with the framework, they need to explore the hidden secrets of it to experience its full potential. The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks from SitePoint unleashes such secrets. Written by five eminent authors, this book is power packed with tips, tricks, and hacks spanning 17 chapters.

The first two chapters provide a basic introduction to ASP.NET and the .NET 2.0 core libraries. You’ll learn the use of source control, strings, generics, and Web site deployment. The authors then delve deep into data access, form validation, state management, memberships, user controls, AJAX, and e-mail. The authors also cover advanced concepts, such as rendering of bar charts (which I hope will help you build a polling system). The remaining chapters explore error handling, connection strings, web.config, performance, and search-engine optimization. Toward the end of the book the authors examine the techniques to build a screen scraper and data access layer.

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