Programming ASP.NET 3.5, 4th Edition

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By Jesse Liberty, Dan Maharry, Dan Hurwitz

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Released: October 2008

Pages: 1168

With Programming ASP.NET 3.5, you'll quickly learn to create state-of-the-art applications using Microsoft's popular web development technology and Visual Studio 2008. This updated bestseller provides comprehensive and easy-to-understand information to help you use several .NET 3.5 technologies for faster development and better web application performance-including ASP.NET AJAX for interactive user interfaces, LINQ for data access, and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for web services.

Programming ASP.NET 3.5 includes examples and sample code that let you explore development with ASP.NET in more depth. With this book, you will:

Learn about AJAX and ASP.NET server controls included with Visual Studio 2008
Discover how to use the DataSource and data-bound controls in ADO.NET
Use the new LINQ API and learn how to make use of it within ASP.NET pages
Create a uniform look and feel throughout your application with Master Pages
Use navigation controls to build site maps, menus, and breadcrumbs quickly and easily
Build and use various web services with WCF
Detect errors during development and handle them in your production code
Learn how to configure and deploy your website

Written by Microsoft technology experts Jesse Liberty, Dan Hurwitz, and Dan Maharry, Programming ASP.NET 3.5 is the best book for learning how to build dynamic, interactive web applications using Microsoft's latest technologies.

Chapter 1 Web Development in 2008
1. AJAX
2. .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5
3. Visual Studio 2008
4. Internet Information Services 7.0
5. Beyond 2008
6. On to VS2008
Chapter 2 Visual Studio 2008
1. First Sight: The Start Page
2. Creating Your First Web Page
3. Projects and Solutions
4. The Integrated Development Environment
Chapter 3 Controls: Fundamental Concepts
1. Events
2. ASP.NET Server Controls
3. AJAX Server Controls
4. HTML Server Controls
5. Client-Side Processing
Chapter 4 Basic Controls
1. Visual Studio Is Not Mandatory
2. Web Forms: Plain or AJAX?
3. Label Controls and Literal Controls
4. TextBox Control
5. HiddenField Control
6. Button Controls
7. HyperLink Control
8. Images
9. Selecting Values
Chapter 5 More Controls
1. Panel Controls
2. The UpdatePanel Control
3. MultiView and View Controls
4. The Wizard Control
5. The FileUpload Control
6. The AdRotator Control
7. The Calendar Control
Chapter 6 Website Fundamentals
1. The Page Class
2. The Code-Behind File
3. Moving to Another Page
4. State
5. Life Cycle
6. Directives
Chapter 7 Data Source Controls and Connections
1. Sources of Data and DataSource Controls
2. Using the ObjectDataSource Control
3. Using the XmlDataSource Control
4. Using the SqlDataSource Control
5. Tracking the Data Source with Events
Chapter 8 Using Data-Aware Controls
1. Hierarchical Data Controls
2. Tabular Data Controls
3. Lists of Data
4. One Record at a Time: DetailsView
5. Many Records at a Time: GridView
6. Templated Controls
Chapter 9 ADO.NET
1. The ADO.NET Object Model
2. Getting Started with ADO.NET
3. Creating Data Objects by Hand
4. Stored Procedures
5. Updating with SQL and ADO.NET
6. Updating Data with Transactions
7. Binding to Business Objects
Chapter 10 Presenting LINQ
1. Deconstructing LINQ
2. LINQ Providers
3. LINQ to XML
4. LINQ to SQL
Chapter 11 Validation
1. The RequiredFieldValidator
2. The Summary Control
3. The Compare Validator
4. Range Checking
5. Regular Expressions
6. Custom Validation
7. Validation Groups
Chapter 12 Forms-Based Security
1. Authentication
2. Setting Up Forms-Based Authentication
Chapter 13 Master Pages and Navigation
1. Master Pages
2. Navigation
3. Filtering Based on Security
Chapter 14 Personalization
1. Creating Personalized Websites
2. Themes and Skins
3. Web Parts
Chapter 15 Custom and User Controls
1. User Controls
2. Custom Controls
3. Derived Controls
4. Composite Controls
Chapter 16 Web Services
1. Introducing Web Services
2. Understanding Web Service Protocols and Standards
3. Using SOAP Web Services
4. Developing an ASP.NET SOAP Web Service
5. Calling the Web Service
6. Developing a WCF Web Service
7. Creating and Consuming AJAX-Enabled Web Services
8. Introducing REST and JSON
9. Learning More About Web Services
Chapter 17 Caching and Performance
1. Types of Caching
2. Data Caching
3. Output Caching
4. Fragment Caching: Caching Part of a Page
5. Object Caching
6. The HttpCachePolicy Class
7. Performance
8. Benchmarking and Profiling
Chapter 18 Application Logic and Configuration
1. Introducing IIS 7.0
2. Application-Wide Logic
3. Configuring the Application
4. Modifying web.config with IIS 7.0
5. Web Site Administration Tool
6. Custom Configuration Sections
Chapter 19 Tracing, Debugging, and Error Handling
1. Creating the Sample Application
2. Tracing
3. Debugging
4. Error Handling
5. Custom Error Pages
Chapter 20 Deployment
1. Assemblies
2. Local Deployment
3. Global Deployment
4. Windows Installer
5. Web Deployment Projects
Chapter 21 Epilogue: From Now to vNext
1. (Some of) The Winnowing Process
2. On the Stove
3. On the Far Horizon

Appendix Installing the AJAX Control Toolkit
1. Downloading the Code
2. Building the Code and Looking Around
3. Integrating the Toolkit with VS2008
Appendix Relational Database Technology: A Crash Course
1. Tables, Records, and Columns
2. Table Design
3. SQL
4. Further Reference
Appendix Keyboard Shortcuts
1. General Actions
2. Text Generation and Refactoring
3. Text Navigation
4. Text Editing and Selection
5. Main Window Shortcut Keys
6. Tool Window Shortcut Keys
7. Find-and-Replace Shortcut Keys
8. Macro Shortcut Keys
9. Debugging Shortcut Keys
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Title:

Programming ASP.NET 3.5, 4th Edition

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Jesse Liberty, Dan Maharry, Dan Hurwitz

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Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft the best-selling author of O'Reilly Media's Learning ASP.NET with AJAX, Programming C#, Programming .NET 3.5, and a dozen other books on programming. He is on the Silverlight Development Team, and a frequent contributor to O'Reilly Network websites and publications. Jesse is a former Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T and Vice President for technology development at CitiBank, and was an independent consultant for 12 years.

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Dan Maharry

Dan Maharry is a senior developer for Co-operative Web, a software development workers co-op based in the UK. He specializes in working with new technologies and has been working with .NET since its first beta. This is his twelfth book on web development for the Microsoft platform. It is his first book for O'Reilly following successful contributions to the Wrox Beginning ASP.NET and Apress Beginning ASP.NET Databases series. He lives with his lovely wife Jane and a rose bush that is trying to engulf his house.

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Dan Hurwitz

Dan Hurwitz is the president of Sterling Solutions, Inc., where for nearly two decades he has been providing contract programming and database development to a wide variety of clients.

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The animal on the cover of Programming ASP.NET 3.5, Fourth Edition, is a guitarfish, a part of the family Rhinobatiformes and a close relative of the rays. As their name implies, guitarfish have a unique body shape, with a flattened head and trunk and a hindbody resembling that of a shark. Their wide pectoral fins are fused to their head, giving it a distinctive spadelike shape. Many adult guitarfish grow to a lengthof up to 6 feet, although the giant guitarfish (Rhynchobatus djiddensis) can grow to 10 feet long, weighing as much as 500 pounds. Guitarfish are typically gray or brownon their dorsal side and white or cream-colored underneath. They are ovoviviparous,meaning their eggs hatch inside the female's body.

There are approximately 45 guitarfish species inhabiting tropical, subtropical, andtemperate waters all over the world. They feed on bottom-dwelling creatures such asscallops and shrimp; an opening just behind their eyes called the spiracle allows themto breathe while scavenging for food on the ocean floor.

Well-known guitarfish species include the bowmouth and the shovelnose. Thebowmouth guitarfish is also known as the shark-ray, thanks to large dorsal fins thatgive it a sharklike appearance. It has a ridge of spikes above its eyes and along itsback and shoulders, a trait that makes it unpopular among the shrimp fisherman whose bycatch it often comprises; the bowmouth's spikes make it difficult to handleand can damage the commercial catch. The shovelnose, easily identified by its pointysnout, is a not-uncommon sight among snorkelers in southern California. Althoughthe shovelnose is generally skittish and not considered aggressive toward humans,there is one documented case of a scuba diver in La Jolla Cove being bitten by a maleshovelnose interrupted in his pursuit of a female guitarfish.

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Chapter 1 Web Development in 2008

AJAX

.NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5

Visual Studio 2008

Internet Information Services 7.0

Beyond 2008

On to VS2008

Chapter 2 Visual Studio 2008

First Sight: The Start Page

Creating Your First Web Page

Projects and Solutions

The Integrated Development Environment

Chapter 3 Controls: Fundamental Concepts

Events

ASP.NET Server Controls

AJAX Server Controls

HTML Server Controls

Client-Side Processing

Chapter 4 Basic Controls

Visual Studio Is Not Mandatory

Web Forms: Plain or AJAX?

Label Controls and Literal Controls

TextBox Control

HiddenField Control

Button Controls

HyperLink Control

Images

Selecting Values

Chapter 5 More Controls

Panel Controls

The UpdatePanel Control

MultiView and View Controls

The Wizard Control

The FileUpload Control

The AdRotator Control

The Calendar Control

Chapter 6 Website Fundamentals

The Page Class

The Code-Behind File

Moving to Another Page

State

Life Cycle

Directives

Chapter 7 Data Source Controls and Connections

Sources of Data and DataSource Controls

Using the ObjectDataSource Control

Using the XmlDataSource Control

Using the SqlDataSource Control

Tracking the Data Source with Events

Chapter 8 Using Data-Aware Controls

Hierarchical Data Controls

Tabular Data Controls

Lists of Data

One Record at a Time: DetailsView

Many Records at a Time: GridView

Templated Controls

Chapter 9 ADO.NET

The ADO.NET Object Model

Getting Started with ADO.NET

Creating Data Objects by Hand

Stored Procedures

Updating with SQL and ADO.NET

Updating Data with Transactions

Binding to Business Objects

Chapter 10 Presenting LINQ

Deconstructing LINQ

LINQ Providers

LINQ to XML

LINQ to SQL

Chapter 11 Validation

The RequiredFieldValidator

The Summary Control

The Compare Validator

Range Checking

Regular Expressions

Custom Validation

Validation Groups

Chapter 12 Forms-Based Security

Authentication

Setting Up Forms-Based Authentication