Description:ASP.NET 3.5 was released in November 2007 and has proven itself a great success within the Microsoft web-development community, as sales of the Second Edition of this book have shown. During the course of 2008 Microsoft is launching a number of upgrades and additions that enhance ASP.NETs functionality. This Third Edition is a revision of the popular Second Edition text that includes coverage of the Silverlight web-presentation technology, Silverlight ASP.NET controls, ASP.NET MVC, the ASP.NET Extension package and the ADO.NET Entity Framework. These technologies have all been released since ASPs official publication and exte nd its capacities considerably. They will be covered within the third edition without increasing the book’s page-count.