At the top of this book it says "TRANING AND REFERENCE" in capital letters.

That sums it up :) 1000 pages of soup to nuts learning about developing ASP.NET applications in C#, updated for ASP.NET 3.5 and C# / Visual Studio 2008.

In addition to all the concepts for ASP.NET, C#, OOP, IIS, etc, the book has sections on Data Access (AND LINQ), AJAX, Listview & Datapager, CSS and more.

Murach's makes great textbook style learning material. As I've said before. if I were teaching a college class on the subject, this would be on the short list for the textbook of choice.

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