Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference
Dino Esposito
Microsoft Press
I'm not sure what to say about this book other than "look elsewhere for knowledge". The author really wanted the reader to know how great the new ASP.NET 2.0 platform is but there weren't any details in his explanations. It's like reading a really long advertisement for ASP.NET 2.0 that never pays off. Dino seemed very infatuated with his understanding of the platform and it's capabilities but somehow failed to curtail his ego long enough to do any real technical writing. I've read terse and boring tech stuff and this is the complete opposite, just fluff. It's just one long promise with no follow through. 

I'm sticking with O'Reilly publications.