--- title: Book review: ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development | daily.dev description: A review of the Packt Publishing book 'ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development' by Curt Christianson and Jeff Cochran. The reviewer, who also wrote a book on ASP.NET MVC,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/book-review-asp-net-3-5-cms-development-txfwkn1t6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Book review: ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development | daily.dev og:description: A review of the Packt Publishing book 'ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development' by Curt Christianson and Jeff Cochran. The reviewer, who also wrote a book on ASP.NET MVC,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/book-review-asp-net-3-5-cms-development-txfwkn1t6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TXFWkN1t6.png og:image:alt: Book review: ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Book review: ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A review of the Packt Publishing book 'ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development' by Curt Christianson and Jeff Cochran. The reviewer, who also wrote a book on ASP.NET MVC, notes the marketing description oversells the CMS-building focus. He concludes the book is not well suited for experienced ASP.NET developers seeking CMS-specific guidance, but works well as a broad, example-driven tutorial for beginners learning core ASP.NET 3.5 concepts like data sources, n-tier development, membership providers, and extensibility through a single sample application. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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