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Buy Our Book And Become An ASP.NET Bad Ass

Remember the book I mentioned that I was writing along with a few colleagues? Well it is finally available for pre-order on Amazon.com!

If you love me, you’ll buy five copies each. No. Ten copies!

Or, you could wait for the reviews and buy the book on its own merits, which I hope it warrants. But what’s the fun in that?

All kidding aside, this was a fun and tiring collaborative effort with Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood, Jon Galloway, K. Scott Allen, and Wyatt Barnett. The book aggregates our collective wisdom on the topic of building web applications with ASP.NET 2.0 as a series of tips, tricks, and hacks.

The target audience for the book is the intermediate developer looking to raise his or her skills to the next level, so some of the material quickly rehashes the basics to set the stage for more interesting tips and tricks. The goal of the book is to be a survival guide for ASP.NET developers. We’ve been bitten and had the poison sucked out of our veins so you can avoid the vipers in the wild.

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What others have said

Jon Limjap Sep 19, 2007 12:57 AM

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Any way to get that book here in Manila without costing an arm and a leg? :P

Travis Laborde Sep 19, 2007 4:56 AM

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I've heard about a couple of new books on 2.0 in the past week... With VS2008 right around the corner... why would anyone release a book so late in the product cycle?

Please don't get me wrong... I'm sure it's a GREAT book, and I do realize that most all of it will still be pertinent in the 3.x world, but...

It seems to me that these books stand a high chance of being ignored in favor of books with a big "3.0" stamp on the cover.

jayson knight Sep 19, 2007 5:12 AM

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Ordered!

DotNetKicks.com Sep 19, 2007 5:13 AM

# The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks

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Aaron Lerch Sep 19, 2007 5:32 AM

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Cool - but the subtitle totally should've been "101 Essential Tips, Tricks, & Haacks"

Which would be possible after your recent nut-capade. :)

Steven Harman Sep 19, 2007 5:43 AM

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So, are you going to be narrating the audio version?

Simone Chiaretta Sep 19, 2007 6:10 AM

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@Travis: ASP.NET in the 3.5 version of the framework is not so different from the 2.0 version.
The new features are Ajax and all compiler sugar things needed for Linq, but nothing really new for ASP.NET. And then, I know of people still using ASP 1.1, so, since the 2008 series will be released next Spring, probably developers will need tips on 2.0 still for a long time. And probably, marketing now, something about the 3.5 will have the opposite effect: nobody will buy it since it's based on pre-release software.

@Phil: I want one signed by you and Jeff, and copy of your new business card @ MS :)

Simone Chiaretta Sep 19, 2007 6:16 AM

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BTW: Amazon says that the book is shipping, and has been released 15th of September. Not only in pre-order.

Josh Stodola Sep 19, 2007 6:30 AM

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Hey shouldn't that say tips, tricks, and haacks?

I'd probably buy it I don't know how to read.

Jason Haley Sep 19, 2007 6:59 AM

# Interesting Finds: September 19, 2007

Jon Galloway Sep 19, 2007 8:39 AM

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As Simone said, there's not a whole lot of new stuff for ASP.NET in 3.0 and 3.5. The book has a whole chapter on AJAX (by K. Scott Allen - one of the best chapters).

There are new things it doesn't cover: Linq and the ListView.

However, this is a problem / solution book, not a list of what's new in the language. There are possibly some minor updates which could be made, but there's nothing really substantial that would change with .NET 3.5.

engtech Sep 19, 2007 8:42 AM

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make a hollow version of the book with the exact same cover and have snakes jump out when you open it.

Think Geek would eat it up, and it would drive sales to the real book.

Haacked Sep 19, 2007 9:19 AM

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@Travis You're still going to buy one, right? ;)

You make a good point, but from my experience, it takes at least a year or more after release for the next version of ASP.NET to start getting adoption at the workplace for most developers. Some devs are lucky and get to deploy the latest greatest bits, but by and large, I think most ASP.NET devs will be working on ASP.NET 2.0 for the next year.

Secondly, the book is meant to distill wisdom, tips, solutions based on real world experience. The type of things us authors have run into on real projects with real clients. That sort of knowledge would be hard to put in a book for ASP.NET 3.5 since it's not even release technology and not many out there have long running experience with it.

Unfortunately, people won't see my explanation on the cover of the book. They'll see "2.0" and I hope it doesn't dissuade anyone.

Scott Sep 19, 2007 9:37 AM

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at least a year or more after release

We're gearing up to re-write our classic ASP application in ASP.NET 2.0....finally.

We were unable to port our 1.1 application to 2.0 w/o significant re-writes.

Microsoft is given heck for not adapting fast enough. But when they do change, we can't keep up.

Timo Sep 19, 2007 10:41 AM

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I think this is good news and it's added to my Amazon wishlist. However what I like to see is a book which covers ASP.NET 2.0 development with MVC. Or is there enough content for a book on this topic ?

I think that MVC is a really important thing to learn (not to mention other patterns) and there is already some content available on the web. But so far no books of this topic for(ASP).NET are written (or are there any ?)

Keyvan Nayyeri Sep 19, 2007 12:11 PM

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Great :-)

It's your year, Phil ;-) Try to get the best from it!

Denny Ferrassoli Sep 19, 2007 5:02 PM

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"The target audience for the book is the intermediate developer..."

I purchased a copy! Haack as well as the other authors have done so much for the community. I've learned a lot from you guys. The least I could do is buy the book. I could only purchase once copy though... "intermediate developer" salary ;)

P.S. Can't wait for the MVC Framework!

Travis Laborde Sep 20, 2007 5:25 AM

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I will likely purchase it, even if just to say thanks for all the great content on your blog... but like someone else already mentioned.. I've heard that MS is working on a new MV* pattern for ASP.NET and some blogger guy joined up to work on that project.

I might wait and see if that needs a book. Because you know... even if it doesn't someone will write one.

Sara Sep 22, 2007 6:13 AM

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ohhhh. I've known the book was coming out but didn't know you were a part of it. I won't buy the book, only because I get it for free since I'm a mod at SitePoint. I will read it though and recommend it to friends. Looking forward to it!

Haacked Sep 22, 2007 11:12 PM

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Oh Sara, buy it anyways. Could be a good party gift for your friends.
;)

Love the gravatar!

Tony Oct 03, 2007 11:35 AM

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Are you going to release an electronic version of the book. I prefer the electronic versions.

DH Oct 09, 2007 7:28 PM

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Ah, the book which Jeff tells us not to buy - though I suspect he's just trying to use reverse psychology on us heh ;-) I'll order a copy anyway... should be good reading :-)