I'm thrilled to announce that a few days ago I've finished reviewing all chapters, so I'm done at last! The book still needs some copy-editing work, but besides that it is 100% complete. It should be available around the end of February / beginning of March. I'll try to convince the Wrox guys to make the source code available even before than though, so that you can start playing with the sample site as soon as possible Below you find a short description for chapter 9, which was missing in the list from my previous post:

In Chapter 9 you’ll add a working e-commerce store with most of the essential features such as a complete catalog and order management system, persistent shopping cart, integrated online payment via credit cards, product ratings, managing product stock availability, rich-formatting of product’s descriptions including text and images, configurable shipping methods and order statuses, and much more. All this will be implemented in relatively few pages, since it will leverage the good foundations built in previous chapters, and of course the ASP.NET 2.0 built-in membership & profile systems, and other new features and controls such as the ubiquitous GridView, DetailsView, and ObjectDataSource, plus the Wizard and MultiView controls.

In the next days I'll update the "Marco's books" page (currently empty) with many details about the book, including the introduction, the description of all chapters, the full TOC, and links to download the source code. Also, I'm happy to anticipate that I've got the permission to publish on this site some short extracts from the book, possibly starting very soon! These pieces will be taken from the Design section of some chapters, where - in addition to designing modules such as newsletter, e-commerce, membership etc. - I introduce the new ASP.NET 2.0 features & controls used in that chapter, so that developers with no prior knowledge of ASP.NET 2.0 (knowledge of ASP.NET 1.x is required though) get the necessary background knowledge to understand everything in the chapter. Of course the level of details of these pieces is not as deep as in reference-books, however they provide enough information to get up to speed with the new technology, and build a very functional and professional Solution.