ASP.NET Cookbook  Buy it at Amazon Read a Sample Chapter From The Publisher
	Author Geoffrey T. LeBlond, Michael A. Kittel Publisher O'Reilly Length 650 pages vbRad Rating: 0596003781 fingers up. (0596003781 out of 5) Reviewed by Robert Gelb

So, let's see what code the authors came up with. The book starts by taking on some of the difficult issues when you are starting out with asp.net, such as dealing with the beast we call grid: paging, sorting, displaying, editing, etc… Man, I wish I had this when I was doing trial and error in the early days.

The authors follow through logically with a bunch of problem/solution/discussion patterns for predicaments we all encounter: forms, user controls, custom controls and state maintanance.

They proceed to tackle some interesting problems in the area of tracing/debugging, caching and internationalization. The most interesting topic for me was the area of dynamically generating images on the fly. It has a certain magic to it. Then follow this topic up with HTTP handlers. Very cool.

Finally, the topic of performance is not to be missed, if you you want to do fast apps, that is. There are a lot of topics that I missed, but you could get those from the published table of contents.

The only thing that annoyed me about this book is that it has examples in both vb.net and c#. That's nice, but pick one. A couple of topics, I didn't care for since I don't deal with them. Most everything else was really interesting to read. It is a standard O'Reilly Cookbook title, so you'll ge the Problem-Solution-Discussion format, making the read nice & even.