If you are brand new to ASP.NET, be sure to check out Beginning ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB by Imar Spaanjaars (Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2008) to help you comprehend the basics.
In addition to working together with Web technologies, we in addition assume this you comprehend basic programming constructs, such as variables, For Every loops, and object-oriented programming.
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You may in addition be wondering whether this book is for the Visual Basic developer or the C# developer. We are happy to say this it is for together! When the code differs substantially, this book offers examples in together VB and C#.
This book spends its time reviewing the 3.5 open of ASP.NET. Every key new aspect integrated in ASP.NET 3.5 is covered in detail. The following list tells you something concerning the content of every chapter.
Chapter 1, "Application and Page Frameworks." This chapter shows you how to build ASP.NET applications utilizing IIS or the built-in Web server this comes together with Visual Studio 2008. This chapter in addition shows you the folders and files this are part of ASP.NET. It discusses ways to compile code and shows you how to perform cross-page posting. This chapter ends by showing you simple ways to deal together with your classes from inside Visual Studio 2008.
Chapters 2, 3, and 4.These three chapters are grouped here for the reason that they all deal together with server controls. This batch of chapters starts by examining the idea of the server control and its pivotal role in ASP.NET development. In addition to looking at the server control framework, these chapters delve into the plethora of server controls this are at your disposal for ASP.NET development projects.
Chapter 5, "Working together with Master Pages."Master pages are a excellent ability found in ASP.NET. They offer a means of creating templated pages this enable you to work together with the entire application, as opposed to single pages.
Chapter 6, "Themes and Skins.” This chapter looks at how to deal together with the styles this your applications require and shows you how to make a centrally managed look-and-feel for all the pages of your application by utilizing themes and the skin files this are part of a theme.
Chapter 7, "Data Binding in ASP.NET 3.5.” One of the extra important tasks of ASP.NET is presenting data, and this chapter shows you how to do this together with ASP.NET controls.
Chapter 8, "Data Management together with ADO.NET.” This chapter presents the ADO.NET data model provided by ASP.NET, which lets you to handle the retrieval, updating, and deleting of data shortly and logically.
Chapter 9, "Querying together with LINQ." LINQ is a set of extensions to the .NET Framework this encompass language-included query, set, and convert operations. This chapter introduces you to LINQ and how to use this new aspect in web applications today.
Chapter 10, "Working together with XML and LINQ to XML." This chapter looks at the XML technologies built into ASP.NET and the underlying .NET Framework to help you effortlessly extract, make, manipulate, and store XML..
Chapter 11, "IIS7." Probably the much substantial open of IIS in its history, IIS 7.0 will modify the way you host and work together with your ASP.NET applications.
Chapter 12, "Introduction to the Provider Model." A number of systems are built into ASP.NET this do the lives of developers so much easier and extra productive than ever before. These systems are built upon an architecture called a provider model, which is rather extensible. This chapter provides an overview of this provider model and how it is used throughout ASP.NET 3.5.
Chapter 13, "Extending the Provider Model." This chapter looks at some of the ways to expand the provider model found in ASP.NET 3.5. This chapter in addition reviews a couple of sample extensions to the provider model.
Chapter 14, "Site Navigation." Many developers do not just develop single pages—they build applications. One of the application abilities provided by ASP.NET 3.5 is the site navigation system covered in this chapter.
Chapter 15, "Personalization.". The ASP.NET team developed a way to store end customer information—the ASP.NET personalization system.
Chapter 16, "Membership and Role Management." This chapter covers the membership and role management system developed to simplify adding authentication and authorization to your ASP.NET applications. This chapter focuses on utilizing the web.config document for controlling how these systems are applied, as well as on the server controls this work together with the underlying systems.
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Chapter 17, "Portal Frameworks and Web Parts." This chapter explains Web Parts—a way of encapsulating pages into smaller and extra manageable objects.
Chapter 18, "HTML and CSS Design together with ASP.NET." A lot of focus on building a CSS-based Web application was located on Visual Studio 2008. This chapter takes a shut look at how you can effectively work together with HTML and CSS design for your ASP.NET applications.
Chapter 19, "ASP.NET AJAX."AJAX signifies the ability to build applications this do use of the XMLHttpRequest object. New to Visual Studio 2008 is the capability to build AJAX-enabled ASP.NET applications from the default install of the IDE.
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Chapter 20, "ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit." This chapter takes a good look at the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, a series of new controls this are now available to do AJAX web development rather neat.
Chapter 21, "Safety." This safety chapter discusses safety beyond the membership and role management features provided by ASP.NET 3.5. This chapter offers an in-depth look at the authentication and authorization mechanics inherent in the ASP.NET technology, as well as HTTP access types and impersonations.
Chapter 22, "State Management." For the reason that ASP.NET is a request-response–based technology, state management and the performance of requests and responses get on significant importance. This chapter introduces these two separate but important areas of ASP.NET development.
Chapter 23 , "Caching." For the reason that of the request-response nature of ASP.NET, caching on the server becomes important to the performance of your ASP.NET applications. This chapter looks at some of the complex caching abilities provided by ASP.NET, counting the SQL cache invalidation aspect which is part of ASP.NET 3.5.
Chapter 24, "Debugging and Error Handling." This chapter tells you how to properly structure error handling inside your applications. It in addition shows you how to use various debugging techniques to locate errors this your applications might contain.
Chapter 25, "Document I/O and Streams." Extra often than not, you would like your ASP.NET applications to work together with products this are outside the base application. This chapter takes a shut look at working together with various document types and streams this might come into your ASP.NET applications.
Chapter 26, "Customer and Server Controls." This chapter describes building your own server controls and how to use them inside your applications.
Chapter 27, "Modules and Handlers." This chapter looks at two methods of manipulating the way ASP.NET processes HTTP requests: HttpModule and HttpHandler. Every method offers a distinctive altitude of access to the underlying processing of ASP.NET and can be great tools for creating web applications.
Chapter 28, "Utilizing Business Objects." You are going to have components created together with previous technologies this you do not would like to rebuild but this you do would like to integrate into new ASP.NET applications. Beyond showing you how to integrate your COM components into your applications, this chapter shows you how to build newer style .NET components instead of turning to the previous COM component architecture.
Chapter 29, "Building and Consuming Services." This chapter reveals the ease not only of building XML Web services, but consuming them in an ASP.NET application. This chapter then ventures further by describing how to build XML Web services this utilize SOAP headers and how to consume this particular type of service.
Chapter 30, "Localization." ASP.NET offers an excellent way to address the internationalization of Web applications. This chapter looks at some of the important products to consider when building your Web applications for the world.
Chapter 31, "Configuration." This chapter teaches you to modify the abilities and behaviors of ASP.NET utilizing the various configuration files at your disposal.
Chapter 32, "Instrumentation." The ASP.NET framework consists of performance counters, the ability to work together with the Windows Event Tracing system, possibilities for application tracing , and the much exciting part of this discussion—a health monitoring system this lets you to log a number of different events over an application's lifetime.
Chapter 33, "Administration and Management." This chapter offers an overview of the new GUI tools this come together with APS.NET this enable you to manage your Web applications effortlessly and effectively.
Chapter 34, "Packaging and Deploying ASP.NET Applications." This chapter takes ...