I have been a big fan of the Dummies book series for the last 8 years. I can still remember the day when I picked up my first dummies book from a local book shop. I recently came to know that Ken Cox has been involved in writing a dummies title for ASP.NET 3.5 and was keenly waiting for its release to review it. I was quite impressed with the overall coverage of content when I quickly scanned through the Table of Contents. I found that the author has also covered advanced topics even though the book is oriented for beginners.

The book begins with an overview of various technologies such as ASP.NET 3.5, AJAX, Silverlight, SQL Server and also provides a short introduction of various tools like MS Office, Expression Web, Blend, etc. Chapter 2 examines…

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