ASP.NET 3.5 is the principal standard for creating dynamic web pages on the Windows platform.Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008: Includes Silverlight 2 raises the bar for highquality, practical advice on learning and deploying Microsoft's dynamic web solution.

Updated with everything you need to integrate Silverlight 2.0 into your ASP.NET applications, this book teaches you all about Silverlight's exciting features so that your ASP projects can be rich in visual flair and compelling to the user. You'll learn how to use the new levels of abstraction in the Entity Framework to design elegant, powerful application architectures.

Seasoned .NET professionalsMatthew MacDonald,Mario Szpuszta, andVidya Vrat Agarwal explain how you can get the most from these groundbreaking technologies. They cover ASP.NET 3.5 as a whole, illustrating both the newer features and the functionality carried over from previous versions of ASP. This book will give you the knowledge you need to code real ASP.NET 3.5 applications in the best possible style.

Mario Szpuszta is working in the Developer and Platform Group of Microsoft, Austria. Before he started working for Microsoft, Mario was involved in several projects based on COM+ and DCOM with Visual Basic and Visual C++ as well as projects based on Java and J2SE. With beta 2 of the .NET Framework, he started developing Web applications with ASP.NET. As developer evangelist for Microsoft Austria, he is doing workshops, trainings, and proof-of-concept projects together with independent software vendors in Austria based on .NET, Web Services, and Office 2003 technologies.

Core Concepts.- Introducing ASP.NET.- Visual Studio.- Web Forms.- Server Controls.- ASP.NET Applications.- State Management.- Data Access.- ADO.NET Fundamentals.- Data Components and the DataSet.- Data Binding.- Rich Data Controls.- Caching and Asynchronous Pages.- Files and Streams.- LINQ.- XML.- Building ASP.NEt Websites.- User Controls.- Themes and Master Pages.- Website Navigation.- Website Deployment.- Security.- The ASP.Net Security Model.- Forms Authentication.- Membership.- Windows Authentication.- Authorization and Roles.- Profiles.- Cryptography.- Custom Membership Providers.- Advanced User Interface.- Custom Server Controls.- Design-Time Support.- Dynamic Graphics and GDI+.- Portals with Web Part Pages.- Client-Side Programming.- JavaScript and Ajax Techniques.- ASP.NET AJAX.- Silverlight 2.