The Book Is Here!

The book I’m referring to is Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls For .NET Framework 3.5 (I know, long title) by Adam Calderon and Joel Rumerman. No, I’m not crazy enough to write a book. I was a technical reviewer on this project with Addison-Wesley. Doing a thorough technical review takes a lot of time (part of the reason I’ve been so quiet lately). Writing a programming book takes an insane amount of time and brings no money.

The book focuses on:

• behaviors and script controls
• the client-side “page” life cycle
• developing controls in a postback environment (hardly ever discussed elsewhere!)
• writing controls on top of the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit
• calling WCF web services via JavaScript proxies (my favorite subject)
• and, of course, lots more

When I went through the first couple of chapters of the yet-raw manuscript, I didn’t believe the book would amount to much. As work progressed, I became a believer. I do think the book turned out really well! My only regret is that AW failed to give proper recognition to all four reviewers contrary to what was promised.

AW sent me a couple of copies which I intend to give out at my presentations at Code Camps and user groups (hint: please attend).

I’d love to hear what you think about the book.

I own this book and I love it. Explained very well in detail especially postback related issues. And great samples.

Ray Akkanson

This book sounds nice, and fall in the exact chapter I need to improve - js/ajax has still at least 2-4 years to go. I'm running to buy it. It's a shame it does not also speak about browser history manipulation introduced in 3.5 SP1.

Silverlight may be the next step. Lookout Haxe (http://haxe.org/?lang=en), maybe this will be the final one.

Oh, if i need to hire someone I'll remember you.
Salutation.