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First Edition: October 2008

p. 5
Microsoft has since changed the download page and the packages available. The Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition software mentioned in chapter 1 now includes SQL Server 2008 Express Edition instead of the 2005 version.

Also SQL Server Management Studio Express is no longer available as a seperate download. Instead, the reader should download the "SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services" package at the URL: http://www.microsoft.com/express/sql/download/, which includes the SQL Server Management Studio tool.
p. 67 2nd paragraph The sentence "In VB, we also had to break one line of code into two using the line continuation symbol (_), an underscore at the end of the line to be continued)." has an extraneous right parenthesis.
p.313 last paragraph
The order of the fields in a query determines the order in which the data will be retrieved; not a table as the book says.
p.355 1st paragraph
In the last sentence the reference to ExecuteCommand should actually be ExecuteReader.
p.575 1st paragraph LocaSqlServer should be LocalSqlServer.
p.142 3rd paragraph
The first sentence of the Master Pages section should read "Master pages are an important feature..."
p.142 2nd paragraph
The last sentence before the 1st code block should read: "Here's an example in which..." (and not of in which)
p.278 3rd paragraph
In the third paragraph of the Primary Keys section, the last sentence should read: "...is to add to the table an ID column that provides a unique identifier for each employee..."
p.304 4th paragraph
The last sentence of this paragraph should read "One of those good old rules of thumb..."
p.363 4th code block
The last code block (C#) is missing a semicolon at the end of the last line.
p.89 2nd paragraph
In the first sentence, both code-behind files are referred to with a .aspx.vb extension: one should be .aspx.vb and the other should be .aspx.cs.