Does the book cover web.config? We are starting a massive conversion of our business apps from classic ASP to ASP.NET and a colleague here mentioned that a big part of the initial design/setup of the foundation for the new apps would deal with web.config. Does this book cover this? Or maybe I misunderstood the importance of web.config in this regard? Sorry if it's a dumb question. Newbie here. Thanks.

Also want to know if the book covers global.asax

Hmmm... The book does include information about both, especially the web.config. However, there is not really a web.config or global.asax section of the book; instead each is mentioned in relationship to the functionality being discussed.

An example of this would be the web.config being discussed in relationship with needs such as appSettings (storing information in the config file that is used by the application), Connection strings (information needed to connect to a database), compilation (debugging and tracing), etc. Of the two files, the web.config is discussed in much greater depth.

The global.asax file is in much less detail, with the only discussion being around the Application_Start and Application_Error handlers, and those only in general.