The professional developer's best buy on .NET 3.5!

Includes

• Professional ASP.NET 3.5: in C# and VB
• Professional C# 2008
• Professional LINQ
• .NET Domain-Driven Design with C#: Problem - Design - Solution

4 great books at a value price!

Professional ASP.NET 3.5

Professional ASP.NET 3.5 helps the experienced programmer put key new ASP.NET developer features including AJAX, LINQ, and a new CSS designer in Visual Web Developer 2008 into action. Greatly expanded from the original best-selling Professional ASP.NET 2.0, Professional ASP.NET 3.5 covers all the key technologies retained from 2.0 in new depth alongside the hundreds of pages of coverage of the important new 3.5 features. Written by 3 of the most well-known and influential ASP.NET developers who were highly praised by ASP.NET creator Scott Guthrie for their ASP.NET 2.0 books, Professional ASP.NET 3.5 is the book you’ll learn the language from and turn to day after day as you write web applications. And as always, Professional ASP.NET 3.5 features language examples in the book and in the code download in both C# and VB!

Key new coverage for ASP.NET 3.5 includes:

• Thorough coverage of how to implement ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX and the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit
• An introduction to LINQ (Language Integrated Query) and many LINQ examples throughout the book side-by-side with the related SQL example to show you the differences between the two
• Enhanced coverage of XML use in ASP.NET including the new XML Schema Designer Add-on, LINQ to XML, LINQ for XML examples, and XSLTC.exe, a command-line XSLT compiler
• A new chapter on CSS design for ASP.NET and the Visual Web Developer CSS design tools
• Coverage of Scott Hanselman’s famous productivity tool picks for developers to help make you a more productive ASP.NET developer

Professional C# 2008

Updated for .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio® 2008, this book is the ultimate guide to C# 2008 and its environment. Beginning with a look into the architecture and methodology of .NET, it explains why the C# language cannot be viewed in isolation, but rather, must be considered in parallel with the .NET Framework. After gaining an understanding of the foundation of C#, you’ll then go on to examine the fundamentals of C# programming with each successive chapter.

Key new coverage for C# 2008 includes:

• LINQ, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML, and ADO.NET entities
• Windows Communication Foundation
• Windows Workflow Foundation
• Windows Presentation Foundation

Professional LINQ

This book shows you how to effectively use LINQ to query XML, SQL databases, ADO.NET DataSets, and other data sources, and it also delves deeper into the technology to demonstrate how LINQ can dramatically improve your applications. The book covers the language-specific features that support LINQ, as well as LINQ queries and the LINQ standard query operators. You'll see how to program with LINQ to XML with both C# and Visual Basic® and how to use LINQ to XML with other data models. Plus, you'll see LINQ to SQL queries, advanced query concepts, LINQ to Entities, and LINQ to DataSets.

What you will learn from this book:

• The syntax to use when writing LINQ queries
• The concepts, techniques, and programming fundamentals necessary to program with LINQ to XML
• All about LINQ to SQL queries and concepts
• Ways to work with the DataContext class and entity objects
• How to build applications using LINQ and associated LINQ providers

.NET Domain-Driven Design with C#: Problem - Design - Solution

This unique resource walks you through the process of building a real-world application using domain-driven design implemented in C#. Based on a real application for an existing company, the project featured throughout the book focuses on the domain object model and the supporting framework that is being built to support that model. Each chapter is broken down into specific modules so that you can identify the problem, decide what solution will provide the best results, and then execute that design to solve the problem. With each chapter, you’ll build a complete project from beginning to end, offering you indispensable, hands-on practice at creating code that builds applications.

What you will learn from this book

• When, why, and how to use domain-driven design
• How to build a framework for the domain model
• How to design and build the initial domain model
• Ways to handle proposal requests, submit transmittals, and change orders
• Techniques for applying TDD to the domain model
• How to deal with requests for clarification and information

Put AJAX, LINQ, and a new CSS designer into action

Here's coverage of all the key technologies retained from ASP.NET 2.0 plus all the new 3.5 features. You'll learn the language from this book and refer to it many times over. You'll find:

• How to implement ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX and the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit

• LINQ examples side-by-side with SQL

• Coverage of Scott Hanselman's famous productivity tool picks for ASP.NET

• Language examples in C# and VB

The ultimate guide to C# 2008 and its environment

Updated for .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio® 2008, this book examines the architecture and methodology of .NET, provides an understanding of the foundation of C#, and shows how C# must be considered in parallel with the .NET Framework. Coverage includes:

• LINQ, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML, and ADO.NET entities

• Windows Communication Foundation

• Windows Workflow Foundation

• Windows Presentation Foundation

Query XML, SQL databases, and more with LINQ

Explore the technology and discover how LINQ can dramatically improve your applications. Discover the language-specific features that support LINQ and see how to program with LINQ to XML with both C# and Visual Basic®. You'll learn:

• The syntax to use when writing LINQ queries

• All about LINQ to SQL queries and concepts

• Ways to work with the DataContext class and entity objects

Build a real-world app using domain-driven design

Based on a real application for an existing company, the project you'll build focuses on the domain object model and its supporting framework. You'll identify the problem, decide on the best solutions, and execute that design. Learn:

• When, why, and how to use domain-driven design

• How to design and build the initial domain model

• Ways to handle proposal requests, submit transmittals, and change orders

Presenting four amazing Wrox books from an unparalleled author team cover the exciting new features of .NET 3.5. This essential boxed set contains the following key titles:  Professional ASP.NET 3.5 covers all the important new features of the 3.5 version of ASP.NET, Professional C# 2008 provides the necessary background information on how the .NET architecture works, .NET Domain-Driven Design with C# takes you through the intense process of designing and implementing the domain model, and Professional LINQ shows you how to effectively use LINQ to query XML, SQLdatabases, ADO.NET DataSets, and other data sources.