ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design

This book will show you how to develop better web applications in ASP.NET with strong focus on practical aspects of architecture and design. This book is for people familiar with the ASP.NET framework using either C# or VB.NET. You don’t need to be an ASP.NET guru – the book is ideal for novice and intermediate developers. If reading about application architecture usually confuses you or sends you to sleep, then this book will be perfect for you! In short, any ASP.NET programmer who is confused or disoriented reading different books or materials on architectures wondering how and what to implement in their application, will definitely benefit from this book!

Vivek is passionate for Microsoft ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, and AJAX, which he expresses as an author of several technical articles in ASP.NET and as an All-Star level contributor in ASP.NET forums. His passion has been formally recognized with the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award by Microsoft in April 2007, continued in 2008 as well. He is also a Subject Matter Expert for Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Certification Exam.

Though his expertise lies in Microsoft's .NET platform, Vivek is comfortable in J2EE and C/C++. He has a deep interest in programming, chaos theory, and artificial intelligence, and is a strong advocate of chaos theory in software systems and management.

Besides his love for software architecture and design, Vivek also focuses on project management skills and has good experience of managing small to medium sized projects. He has also conducted training sessions and provided tutoring.

Vivek received his Bachelors degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, India.