Bill Evjen Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition excerpt

I haven't been mentioning as frequently the growing list of articles and excerpts from Wrox books we're creating at Wrox.com the last few weeks. As we've launched the videos I've blogged about a few times recently, I've really focused on them more than the excerpts. But, this week I've got a really special excerpt worth a special nod.

By now, anyone who's read this blog more than once knows Wrox's Professional ASP.NET 2.0 is the best selling ASP.NET 2.0 book since 2.0 released. Period. No competition, not close to be #2. But, the 1300 pages of great coverage wasn't enough for Bill Evjen and the rest of the author team, they wanted to do more. So, coming this September, we've got the new Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition. This new Special Edition adds a ton of new coverage, it's got almost 300 pages more than the original book. And, the excerpt I've got this week is one of the first of several we're going to post from this to highlight some of the new content. Here's the beginning:

ASP.NET 2.0 FileUpload Server Control

In ASP.NET 1.0/1.1, you could upload files using the HTML FileUpload server control. This control put an <input type="file"> element on your Web page to enable the end user to upload files to the server. To use the file, however, you had to make a couple of modifications to the page. For example, you were required to add enctype="multipart/form-data" to the page's <form> element.

ASP.NET 2.0 introduces a new FileUpload server control that makes the process of uploading files to a server even simpler. When giving a page the capability to upload files, you simply include the new <asp:FileUpload> control and ASP.NET takes care of the rest, including adding the enctype attribute to the page's <form> element.

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And then you can go here to the full excerpt. When you do that, you'll find there's a whole new section at the end of this that covers "Uploading Multiple Files from the Same Page" - a very frequently requested "how do I" item.

That's about 1 page of the new content, again, totaling around 300 added pages. Here's a brief list of what's more and new:

4 completely new chapters:

• Introduction to the Provider Model
• Extending the Provider Model
• Localization
• Instrumentation

2 new appendixes:

• Migrating ASP.NET 1.x Projects
• Using Atlas

And there's an added DVD which is the Visual Studio 2005 Professional 180 Trial.

And there's an added CD which contains more than 1000 pages of selected chapters from other Wrox .NET 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0, VB 2005, C# 2005, and SQL Server books.

And throughout all the existing chapters, the authors made tons of other little additions including:

• Added Class Designer File and Open Test Bench
• added build providers
• an additional more complex callback example
• Uploading multiple files from the same page
• In Chapter 11, DataBinding in ASP.NET 2.0:
  • Added: SqlDataSource Configuration Wizard to add optimistic concurrency
  • Added SqlDataSource Events, Using the SqlDataSource with Oracle, AccessDataSource Control
  • Added GridView events that fire when the data binding occurs
  • Added Using the TemplateField Column in the GridView Control
  • Added Using the TemplateField’s EditItemTemplate
  • Added Expressions and Expression Builder
• Using Oracle as Your Database with ASP.NET 2.0
• Added "Generating Custom XML from SQL 2005

That's the list up through about the first 1/2 of the book. I'll complete this another time but that's why I think this is an exciting little excerpt.