Free ASP.NET Books

With “ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Websites Succinctly” by Lyle Luppes, developers currently using ASP.NET and MVC 3 can make the move to MVC 4 with minimal effort. Complete with downloadable code samples, a walkthrough of features new to MVC 4, and even a few tips for MVC 3 mobile development. …

This online book gives you an overview of ASP.NET Web Pages (version 2) and Razor syntax, a lightweight framework for creating dynamic websites. It also introduces WebMatrix, a tool for creating pages and sites. …

This is a free 196 page eBook on ASP.NET MVC that walks-through building a small, but complete, ASP.NET MVC application from scratch. The best way to learn a new framework is to build something with it. …

“Improving Web Application Security: Threats and Countermeasures” gives you a solid foundation for designing, building, and configuring secure ASP.NET Web applications. This guide helps you build hack-resilient applications. A hack-resilient application is one that reduces the likelihood of a successful attack and mitigates the extent of damage if an attack occurs. A hack-resilient application resides on a secure host (server) in a secure network and is developed using secure design and development guidelines. …

Inside ASP.NET Web Matrix is a free ASP.NET ebook by Alex Homer and Dave Sussman. It has 3 parts: Part 1 – What is Web Matrix?, Part 2 – Putting Web Matrix to Work and Part 3 – Configuring and Extending Web Matrix. …