Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008 Book Review

This book is an excellent resource for learning ASP.NET 3.5. It also serves as a great reference. It is a comprehensive book that covers all of .NET 3.5, not just the new features in .NET 3.5, but all the features that have been there over the last several releases. Matthew includes chapters on Linq, ASP.NET AJAX, and Silverlight. If you only want to learn about the new features in .NET 3.5, buy separate books on ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight. Matthew does a great job of putting Linq into it proper place within a common ASP.NET 3.5 Architecture. So far he has done this best job of this I have seen in a book. One reviewer on Amazon pointed out that the book has a lot of material from previous versions. That is to be expected since all the previous version's functionality is included in the technology. Like I said above, this book covers everything. This book also does a great job of covering the Visual Studio 2008 IDE features. Matthew does a great job relating everything to real world scenarios. He also provides very usable code samples. If you are developing in ASP.NET 3.5, this is a must have book.