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Title: Not for professionals!
Review: What I expect from series "professionals" - is not covering all topics on a level "how to drag a control from toolbox" but a deep discussion(why(background), what(internals) and how(valuable examples)) on the most important and difficult topics of the domain, using "real-life" examples(the examples in the book are useless).The content lacks a holistic approach(don't like collected stories). Let it be not an all-in-all tutorial but some concept and in-depth material on the most significant topics.(though the publisher won't benefit from this kind of strategy - it's always better to write a dozen of books of one domain than having one may be two volumes covering essentials).A very(!) good example of book for professionals(asp.net 1.1) - is the book of Fritz Onion - "Essential ASP.NET With Examples in C#".Overall the book is good(for beginners) or for upgrading from previous version of asp.net(though it could have been more compact then).
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