I am sure that many of you out there are owners of our Professional ASP.NET

title and have found it a more than useful compendium looking at all aspects

of programming with ASP.NET. I can hear you asking yourselves why Wrox are

releasing a 'Special Edition' only 8 months after they released the first

edition? This is a good question. Hopefully this will provide the answers to

all that you are thinking!



Why 'Special Edition'? Well this is easy, we are providing 12 months free

subscription to the electronic version of the book through our new online

library Wroxbase (http://www.wroxbase.com/) which you can access from any

computer for free as of March 2002!



But Why a New Edition? The simple answer is the book is fully revised, it is

now completely compatible with the final release version of the .NET

Framework, and we have taken the opportunity to correct errors found in the

first edition. 



"I already own the first edition and don't want to spend $59.99 on the

'Special Edition'"? This is a fair comment and we certainly would not advise

that you do this, the 'Special Edition' is an updated version of the

original, and the bulk of the content is still very much the same. We are

aware that you will still require the RTM compatible code so this will be

provided for you to download from wrox.com for free. We are also providing

the option for you to upgrade to the electronic version of Professional

ASP.NET 1.0 Special Edition on Wroxbase at a discounted price - only $12 a

year.



Should you be new to ASP.NET and want a book to provide the information

needed to build a dynamic, successful enterprise web application then this

is the book to go for! If you already own the book then there are still

benefits, updated downloadable free code as well as discounted subscription

to Wroxbase, which will certainly cut down on that backache from carrying

books around.



Should you have any more questions or queries please feel free to contact

us, we are only too happy to hear what you think support@w...



Alastair



Technical Editor