The professional developer's best buy on .NET 2.0!

Includes
* Professional ASP.NET 2.0
* Professional C# 2005
* Professional .NET Framework 2.0
* Professional .NET 2.0 Generics
* CD-ROM with more than 700 pages of bonus chapters from 10 other .NET 2.0 and SQL Server(TM) 2005 Wrox books
* DVD with 180-day trial version of Microsoft(r) Visual Studio(r) 2005 Professional Edition


Master ASP.NET 2.0's power and time-saving features

With more than 50 new server controls, the number of classes inside ASP.NET 2.0 has more than doubled and the changes are sometimes dramatic. This book teaches you
* The pivotal role of the server control in ASP.NET development
* How to create templated ASP.NET pages with the master pages feature
* Debugging and error-handling techniques
* Frameworks that help you extract, create, manipulate, and store XML

Revolutionize the way you program

Get the fundamentals of C# plus essential background on the .NET architecture. Here's what you must know to write dynamic Web pages, an XML Web service, a classic Windows desktop app, and more, including
* Principles of programming in the .NET environment
* How to use existing COM components with .NET applications
* Techniques for manipulating XML using C# 2005
* How to access databases with ADO.NET

Explore underlying platform commonalities you can use

Here's an in-depth look at Common Language Runtime (CLR) fundamentals, Base Class Libraries (BCL), and the more advanced Framework libraries used in most managed applications. You'll discover
* Details of the CLR's architecture
* How assemblies work and options for deployment
* Specific portions of the BCL and advanced Framework libraries, including transaction libraries
* The secure programming model and forms of isolation and concurrency

Examine what you can achieve with generics

Generics bring a new dimension of type-safety, expressiveness, and performance to data types. Here's comprehensive information on generics and the rules governing them, BCL generic types, the Power Collections library, and more, such as
* How to use generics to improve the type-safety of your code
* Steps for extending classes and introducing derivative generic types
* Guidelines for applying generics
* Ways to achieve runtime efficiencies