Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, Devin Rader, “Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB”
Wrox | ISBN: 0470187573 | March 2008 | 1704 pages | PDF | 28.9MB
Building on the revolutionary ASP.NET 2.0 release, ASP.NET 3.5 adds several key new developer features including AJAX, LINQ, and a new CSS designer in Visual Web Developer 2008. The dramatic reduction in code that developers realized from the more than 50 new server controls in ASP.NET 2.0 now allows developers the time to make their applications more interactive with AJAX, to work with data in their preferred language with LINQ, and to build visually attractive and consistent standards-based sites with CSS.
Part I: Getting to Know ASP.NET and Visual Web Developer
Part I introduces the technology and contains the information you need to start creating your first ASP.NET pages. The goal is to become comfortable enough with the terminology and tools so you relax in the rest of the book. If you’ve worked with a previous version of ASP.NET and Visual Web Developer, you might want to skim or skip Chapter 1. Chapter 2 is necessary only if you’ve never worked in a Visual Studio or Visual Web Developer environment. In Chapters 3, 4, and 5, I introduce key concepts and ensure your initial success in creating pages that work with user input.
Part II: Immersing Yourself in Data
In Part II, I walk you through the integration of data with ASP.NET pages. Chapter 6 covers the basic needs of virtually every data-driven site using the SqlDataSource control. Don’t miss Chapters 7 and 8, where I cover the new Language Integrated Query (LINQ) features. Chapter 9 digs into other data sources, such as XML and Web services.
Part III: Enhancing the Interface and User Experience
In Part III, you explore the presentation aspects of Web pages. In Chapter 10, I show you how to use the tools and techniques in VWD to create user interfaces. Every site with more than one page needs navigation, and that’s covered in Chapter 11. Chapter 12 looks at HTML standards and how to use a style sheet to divide a Web page into columns. For sophisticated formatting, Chapter 13 walks you through the versatile new ListView control. In the remaining chapters in Part III, you add dynamic effects, boost page response with AJAX, and introduce rich content, such as Microsoft Silverlight, into your pages.
Part IV: Tracking Users, Controlling Access, and Implementing Security
Part IV is largely about security and recognizing returning visitors. In Chapter 17, I show you how easy it is to secure pages by using ASP.NET’s built-in authentication and membership features. The chapter offers professional touches that users appreciate. In Chapter 18, you build an e-commerce style shopping cart by using ASP.NET’s built-in Profiles feature. Chapter 19 demonstrates ways to ensure that users — friendly or otherwise — provide your application with clean, safe, validated data.
Part V: Getting the Bugs Out and Handling Runtime Errors
Turn to the chapters in this part to figure out why a page or site isn’t behaving the way it should. Chapter 20 shows techniques for checking what’s going on deep in your app. Chapter 21 provides defenses to cope with unforeseen errors in a deployed page.
Part VI: The Part of Tens
In Chapter 22, you copy your ASP.NET pages and associated files to the Internet. The last chapter of the book points you toward helpful resources for when you’re stuck or you need to expand your expertise and investigate more complex subjects.
Vincent Varallo, "ASP.NET 3.5 Enterprise Application Development with Visual Studio 2008: Problem Design Solution"
John Wiley & Sons | ISBN: 0470396865 | 26 Jan 2009 | 504 pages | PDF | 6.5 Mb
This book provides a step–by–step guide for developing an ASP.NET 3.5 application using the latest features in Visual Studio 2008. The Problem Design Solution series by Wrox is unique because it describes a large case study and builds an entire solution chapter by chapter for each incremental step. This book uses a wide variety of new features in Visual Studio 2008, explains each in detail, and produces a solution that you can use as a starting point for your own applications.
If you are responsible for designing or developing enterprise–wide applications, departmental applications, portals, or any line of business application, then this book is for you. Many applications have a similar set of features, and this book builds an application with some of the most common features of enterprise applications. Let’s face it: Every application has the same general set of features, but implemented in a different way. A database sits in the back end and you, as the developer, are responsible for enabling users to add, update, select, and delete records.
Ajax has revolutionized the way users interact with web pages today.
Gone are frustrating page refreshes, lost scroll positions and intermittent interaction with a web site. Instead, we have a new generation of fast, rich, and more intuitive web applications.
The ASP.NET AJAX framework puts the power of Ajax into the hands of web developers.
ASP.NET AJAX, formerly called Atlas, is a new free framework from Microsoft designed to easily add Ajax features to ASP.NET applications.
With this technology, ASP.NET developers can easily build more interactive and highly-personalized web applications that work across all most popular browsers.
ASP.NET AJAX in Action is a fast-paced, example-rich tutorial designed for ASP.NET web developers and written by ASP.NET AJAX experts Alessandro "Garbin" Gallo, David Barkol, and Rama Krishna Vavilala. This book introduces you to Ajax applications and to the ASP.NET AJAX technology.
Beginners will appreciate the clear explanations of key ideas and terminology.
Intermediate and advanced ASP.NET developers will find a no-nonsense learning source and well-organized reference.
ASP.NET AJAX in Action offers a rich set of examples and meticulous explanations.
The extensive code samples are accompanied by accurate and rigorous explanations of the concepts behind development with ASP.NET AJAX. In this book, you will discover how to use
* Microsoft Ajax Library
* Partial rendering with UpdatePanels
* Advanced client and server techniques
* Ajax Control Toolkit
Programming in the .NET Environment (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
Authors describe Microsoft's vision for distributed component-based systems development and then show programmers how to develop software that takes full advantage of the features of the .NET Framework.
Begins with an introduction to the goals and
architecture of the .NET Framework. Softcover.
Chapter 1 introduces ASP.NET and the .NET Framework. It examines the different components of the .NET platform, compares ASP.NET to other Web development environments, describes the ASP.NET compilation model, examines the event system in ASP.NET, and illustrates how to create simple ASP.NET pages using Visual Studio 2005.
Chapter 2 continues the coverage of the basics of ASP.NET. This chapter examines in depth how ASP.NET works. It describes the event system in ASP.NET, the page lifecycle, and the essential mechanisms of postback and view state. It also covers some more advanced topics that could be skipped and returned to after you become more comfortable with ASP.NET. These topics include the ASP.NET compilation model, the Page class, as well as the application lifecycle.
Chapter 3 provides an overview of ASP.NET's Web server control architecture, covers Web forms syntax, examines how to use the common features of all Web server controls, and provides and illustrates how to use a core subset of the standard Web server controls. Because ASP.NET 2.0 now has so many Web server controls, some of the less frequently used core Web server controls are covered in Chapter 4.
Chapter 4 continues the coverage of the standard Web server controls. The controls covered in this chapter are more complicated. Some of the controls covered in this chapter include the Panel, MultiView, Wizard, FileUpload, and Xml controls. Several of the longest code listings in the entire book are in this chapter.
Chapter 5 covers one of the most important facets of Web application development, namely, how to deal with exceptions, both at the language level and at the ASP.NET level. It also illustrates how to use the ASP.NET validation controls.
Chapter 6 examines how to create complex user interfaces using styles, themes, skins, and master pages. The chapter also covers the creation of your own user controls.
Chapter 7 examines how to describe and create a site's navigation system using the ASP.NET site navigation controls.
Chapter 8 is the first chapter of the second part of the book. ASP.NET 2.0 introduces a new way of working with data and this chapter's focus is on the different ways that data can be represented. It covers data binding, arrays, collections, generics, and data sets.
Chapter 9 continues the material from Chapter 8 by examining how to programmatically and declaratively work with data in databases. This chapter begins by examining how to access and modify data within databases in ASP.NET using the classes of ADO.NET. The chapter also covers the codeless approach to accessing data using the data source controls introduced in version 2.0 of ASP.NET.
Chapter 10 illustrates how to use the various data controls in ASP.NET. It illustrates the use of the Repeater, DataList, FormView, DetailsView, and Grid-View controls. Each of these controls uses data binding to display (and for some even edit) multiple sets of data in different ways.
Chapter 11 shifts the focus away from individual controls and classes and instead examines some of the issues involved in creating a more complex Web application with ASP.NET. It begins with the design of Web applications and some common layering models for Web applications, and then moves on to implement two sample layered architectures.
Chapter 12 covers an aspect of ASP.NET that is vital for any Web application: managing state. This chapter begins with the various types of ASP.NET state whose data is stored on the client, such as view state and cookies. It then moves on to those state mechanisms whose data is stored in the server: session state, application state, and finally the ASP.NET cache.
Chapter 13 is the first chapter of the final part of the book. It covers security, one of the most important aspects of any Web application. It discusses authentication and authorization in the context of ASP.NET, illustrates how to use the various login control as well as the new provider system, including the membership and role management providers.
Chapter 14 examines two mechanisms in ASP.NET 2.0 for integrating user personalization into a Web application: namely, the profile system and the Web part framework. The profile system allows an application to persist user information across time and multiple pages. The Web part framework provides the developer with a mechanism for creating pages in which the user can customize the placement, appearance, and possibly the behavior of the page's content.
Chapter 15 looks at how to synchronously and asynchronously consume Web services in ASP.NET. The chapter also demonstrates how to construct Web services.
Chapter 16 demonstrates how to plan and adapt an ASP.NET application for an international audience, as well as the various ways to deploy a completed ASP.NET Web application.
Microsoft ASP.NET Professional Projects
Part I - The ASP.NET Programming Environment
Chapter 1 - Introducing ASP.NET
Chapter 2 - Introducing ASP.NET Web Forms and Controls
Chapter 3 - Using ADO.NET in the .NET Framework
Chapter 4 - Data Binding
Chapter 5 - Input Validation
Chapter 6 - User Controls
Chapter 7 - Custom Controls
Chapter 8 - Business Objects
Chapter 9 - Working with ASP.NET Web Services
Chapter 10 - ASP.NET Applications
Chapter 11 - Caching
Chapter 12 - Tracing
Chapter 13 - Security
Part II - Projects
Project 1 - A Personal Finance Manager
Chapter 14 - The Design of the Personal Finance Manager
Chapter 15 - Chart of Accounts
Chapter 16 - Transactions
Chapter 17 - The Trial Balance Report
Project 2 - Web Services
Chapter 18 - Creating a Generic Database Web Service
Chapter 19 - Designing a Navigation System
Chapter 20 - Incorporating Web Services in the Chart of Accounts Form
Chapter 21 - Incorporating Web Services in the Transactions Form
Chapter 22 - Incorporating Web Services in the Trial Balance
Project 3 - Inventory Management System
Chapter 23 - The Design of the Inventory Management System
Chapter 24 - Inventory Masters
Chapter 25 - Inventory Movements
Chapter 26 - The Inventory Balances Report
Project 4 - The GenEditAdd Control
Chapter 27 - Using the GenEditAdd Control
Chapter 28 - Extending the GenEditAdd Control
Project 5 - Visual Studio.NET
Chapter 29 - Displaying Database Data Using a Strongly-Typed DataSet
Chapter 30 - Writing CRUD Applications with Visual Studio.NET
Chapter 31 - Creating a Web Service Using Visual Studio.NET
Part III - Appendixes
Appendix A - Installing the Sample Database
Appendix B - HailStorm
Part I - ASP.NET AJAX Building Blocks
Chapter 1 - The AJAX Revolution
Chapter 2 - The Microsoft Client Library for AJAX
Part II - Adding AJAX Capabilities to a Site
Chapter 3 - The Pulsing Heart of ASP.NET AJAX
Chapter 4 - Partial Page Rendering
Chapter 5 - The AJAX Control Toolkit
Part III - Client-Centric Development
Chapter 6 - Built-in Application Services
Chapter 7 - Remote Method Calls with ASP.NET AJAX
Chapter 8 - Building AJAX Applications with ASP.NET
The book is divided into three parts: an overview of the platform and its building blocks, techniques to effectively enhance existing sites, and client-centric development. In the first part, you’ll learn the basics of the AJAX model and the extensions made to the JavaScript language to back it. The second part is dedicated to the elements in the framework that you use to add new capabilities to existing server controls and to transform existing classic ASP.NET pages into full-fledged AJAX pages. Finally, the third part covers tools and techniques that express the real power of AJAX applications-out-of-band calls to server code.
The book is recommended for virtually any ASP.NET developer and professional. As mentioned, ASP.NET AJAX is the next big thing in the ASP.NET evolution and follows a key industry trend-the AJAX model. In addition, ASP.NET AJAX goes beyond the classic AJAX model, pushing a framework that spans the client and server to provide an end-to-end solution for Web applications. As far as the Microsoft Web platform is concerned, ASP.NET AJAX Extensions weds rich functions with wide reach-an old dream of Web professionals that comes true.
ASP Made Simple provides a brief introduction to ASP for the person who favours self teaching and/or does not have expensive computing facilities to learn on. The book will demonstrate how the principles of ASP can be learned with an ordinary PC running Personal Web Server, MS Access and a general text editor like Notepad.
After working through the material readers should be able to:
* Write ASP scripts that can display changing information on a web browser
* Request records from a remote database or add records to it
* Check user names & passwords and take this knowledge forward, either for their own web-development projects or as a stepping-stone to understanding more formal texts KEY
FEATURES:
*Exercises and material builds up into a simple project, which is a customizable shell
*Starts from first principles and does not assume the reader is a scripting expert
*Constructed to give all the information needed to build a web site with database connectivity
Microsoft's .NET strategy embraces a vision for integrating diverse elements of computing technology and data services. The wireless Internet and mobile devices are core components of that strategy. Visual Studio .NET includes a powerful set of toolsthe Mobile Internet Toolkitfor developing websites and applications that can be accessed from all kinds of mobile devices .NET Wireless Programming provides the technical details you need to master to develop end-to-end wireless solutions based on .NET technology.
You'll learn to take advantage of the Mobile Internet Toolkit's automated deployment capabilities, which enable a single site or application to work with nearly any mobile device. Freed from the task of writing code to accommodate various devices, you'll be able to apply other skills to build a more powerful application: Work with styles and templates. Create custom controls. Read from and write to databases. And use Microsoft's Web Services in support of a distributed architecture.
Five case studies, including a mobile intranet, a contacts database, and an online game, illustrate solutions to real problems and techniques for maximizing application flexibility. A set of appendices provide detailed information on the WML language and the Toolkit's classes. This book presents its many code examples in Visual Basic .NET, but the greater emphasis is on Visual Studio .NET and the flexibility it gives developers in choosing the language they want to use.
Get Everything You Can Out of Visual C# and the .NET Framework
Mastering Visual C# .NET is the best resource for getting everything you can out of the new C# language and the .NET Framework. You'll master C# language essentials, quickly taking advantage of the many improvements it offers over C++ and see tons of examples that show you all the ways that .NET can make your programming more efficient and your applications more powerful. You'll learn how to create stand-alone applications, as well as build Windows, web, and database applications. You'll even see how to develop web services—a technology that holds great promise for the future of distributed application.
Coverage includes:
* Mastering the fundamentals and advanced aspects of the C# language
* Using Visual Studio .NET for increased coding productivity and debugging
* Creating distributed applications with remoting and web services
* Understanding object-oriented concepts
* Delivering data across the Internet with web services
* Using XML to communicate with other applications
* Accessing databases with ADO.NET
* Building Windows applications
* Creating web applications using ASP.NET
* Reading and writing data from/to files or the Internet
* Using advanced data structures to store and manipulate information
* Using multi-threading for greater application efficiency
* Using reflection to manipulate running code
* Building distributed applications with remoting and web services
* Securing code and authenticating users
* Using built-in encryption facilities
* Making your applications world-ready
* Parsing strings with regular expressions
* Using delegates to handle runtime events
* Programming defensively with exception handling
.NET 3.5 will help you create better Windows applications, build Web Services that are more powerful, implement new Workflow projects and dramatically enhance the user's experience. But it does so with what appears to be a collection of disparate technologies.
In Programming .NET 3.5, bestselling author Jesse Liberty and industry expert Alex Horovitz uncover the common threads that unite the .NET 3.5 technologies, so you can benefit from the best practices and architectural patterns baked into this newest generation of Microsoft frameworks. While single-topic .NET 3.5 books delve into Windows Presentation Foundation and the other frameworks in greater detail, Programming .NET 3.5 offers a "Grand Tour" of the release that describes how the four principal technologies can be used together, with Ajax, to build modern n-tier and service-oriented applications.
Developers have struggled to implement these patterns with previous versions of the .NET Framework, but this hands-on guide uses real-world examples and fully annotated source code to demonstrate how .NET 3.5 can make it easy. The concepts and technologies that this book covers include: XAML -- Microsoft's new XML-based markup language for UI, used with WPF Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) -- a new presentation framework and graphics subsystem for Windows that puts Vista-like effect in your grasp Ajax Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) - a new standards-based framework that enables applications to communicate across a network using a variety of protocols Workflow Foundation (WF) -- framework for defining, executing, and managing workflows CardSpace -- framework for managing the identities of your users You'll learn how to useeach of the four frameworks alone and in concert to build a series of meaningful example applications.
Examples are written in C#, and all of the source code will be available for download at both the O'Reilly and the authors' site, which offers access to a free support forum. Between them, authors Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz have nearly forty years of experience in delivering commercial applications for companies such as Citibank, Apple, AT&T, NeXt, PBS, Ziff Davis, and dozens of smaller organizations. Their combined experience is valuable for telling the story of .NET 3.5 and how it will shorten the development life cycle for applications developers, and enhance your productivity.
About the Author
Jesse Liberty is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft in the Silverlight Development Division. His business card reads "Silverlight Geek," and he is responsible for fostering a Silverlight Developer community, primarily through Silverlight.net.
Beginning Web Programming in VB .NET: From Novice to Professional will teach you the fundamentals of the web environment and how Visual Studio .NET (VS .NET) makes it accessible to VB programmers. You'll build a working website that demonstrates all the elements of a VB web application. Author Daniel Cazzulino takes a step-by-step approach to each example to explore the essential technologies and how VS .NET helps to integrate them into a highly interactive, attractive web application.
In this tutorial guide you'll learn how to
Create dynamic web pages with ASP.NET web forms and web server controls
Display and manipulate data using ADO.NET and VS .NET components
Persist state in different ways, within the "stateless" web environment
Create XML files and XML schema, and use them for data transfer
Integrate your web applications with others through web services
Make your application more secure via the security features in ASP.NET and IIS
Eliminate bugs and unexpected failures through effective debugging and exception-handling techniques
Improve the performance of your application and prepare it for release
ASP.NET 2.0 is a functional programming tool, so why not discover how to use it by actually creating something functional? These aren't useless "Hello World" type examples - you'll build secure e-commerce, community, and back-end applications right from the start. Even before you've finished this hands-on guide, you'll have something to show for your efforts!
Discover how to
* Understand application design
* Debug your projects
* Avoid cross-site scripting attacks
* Build a database management application
* Create an online product catalog
* Design blog and forum applications
Completely revised for ASP.NET 2.0, this new edition of the best-selling ASP.NET Cookbook has everything you need to go from beginning to advanced Windows-based web site development using Microsoft's popular Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 developer tools. Written for the impatient professional, ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook contains more than 125 recipes for solving common and not-so-common problems you are likely to encounter when building ASP.NET-based web applications.
If you're seeking ways to build network-based applications or XML-based web services, Microsoft provides most of the tools you'll need. XML is integrated into the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET, but if you want to get a grasp on how .NET and XML actually work together, that's a different story. With .NET & XML, you can get under the hood to see how the .NET Framework implements XML, giving you the skills to write understandable XML-based code that interoperates with code written with other tools, and even other languages. .NET & XML starts by introducing XML and the .NET Framework, and then teaches you how to read and write XML before moving on to complex methods for manipulating, navigating, transforming, and constraining it. To demonstrate the power of XML in .NET, author Niel Bornstein builds a simple hardware store inventory system throughout the book. As you move from chapter to chapter, you'll absorb increasingly complex information until you have enough knowledge to successfully program your own XML-based applications. This tutorial also contains a quick reference to the API, plus appendices present additional .NET assemblies that you can use to work with XML, and how to work with the .NET XML configuration file format. One study puts the potential market for new software based on XML at or near $100 billion over the next five years. The .NET Framework gives you a way to become a part of it. But to use XML and .NET effectively, you need to understand how these two technologies work together. This book gives you the insight to take full advantage of the power the two provide.
ADO.NET revolutionized the way data was accessed through SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL. With Microsoft's release of ADO.NET 2, ADO and the .NET Framework are integrated with SQL Server for the first time-enabling you to program .NET applications directly within the SQL Server database.
Packed with sample code and recommended best practices for using ADO.NET 2, this code-intensive book explores the new data types that are available in the 2.0 Framework and discusses the appropriate time and way to use them. You'll learn how to make repetitive, mundane tasks much simpler and you'll walk away with a solid foundation for developing database-driven applications.
Publisher: Wrox
Number Of Pages: 474
Publication Date: 2007-09-11
Sales Rank: 18742
ISBN / ASIN: 0470124482
EAN: 9780470124482
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Themes are a way to allow programmers to establish "skinnable" websites that can be programmatically adjusted for various purposes. A webmaster may decide that there should be a certain look and feel for site administrators while registered users see a different look and the remaining users see still a different view when they visit the site. This could include, among other things, completely different controls, graphics, and/or color schemes for each group. Users may want to set up a theme specifically targeted to meet the needs of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that removes all images and background colors and leaves the pages in stark contrast for that particular user group. Or maybe the developer just wants to let people choose the way they experience the site each time they visit.
Themes are very powerful and this book aims to highlight the potential of ASP.NET 2.0 Themes as well as their relationship to master pages and CSS in web applications today and illustrate many of the facets that can and should be included in theme development. While not specifically a designer's book, an overview of good web design and even a cheater's guide to PhotoShop will be included with the intent of taking the average ASP.NET Programmer and given them the knowledge to be "Renaissance Men and Women" of web design.
Specific topics covered in the book include:
Browser, bandwidth, and accessibility considerations
Use of color, fonts, multimedia
CSS classes, elements, and Visual Studio CSS tools
Master pages, child pages, and inheritance
Consistent navigation and Site Maps
Theme files, skin files, and applying themes
A mobile theme example
Basic PhotoShop tricks for Web Developers
Pro ADO.NET Data Services: Working with RESTful Data is aimed at developers interested in taking advantage of the new REST–style data services that ADO.NET Data Services (formerly code–named Astoria) provides. The book shows how to incorporate ADO.NET Data Services into a wide range of common environments including BizTalk, AJAX and Silverlight client applications. The material is intended for professional developers who are comfortable with the .NET 3.5 Framework but are coming to ADO.NET Data Services for the first time and want to understand how to integrate it into their own applications and enterprise solutions. The book is packed full with extensive real–world solutions and exercises, ensuring you walk away with a deep understanding of how to use ADO.NET Data Services to your best advantage.
What you’ll learn
Implement software solutions using ADO.NET Data Services within a variety of enterprise–level environments.
Integrate ADO.NET Data Services into enterprise applications using BizTalk Server.
Take advantage of ADO.NET Data Services in standard and AJAX/Silverlight–enabled ASP.NET applications, as well as traditional .NET applications.
Understand when to apply traditional SOAP programming methods vs. REST–style programming to achieve the best possible results.
Incorporate ADO.NET Data Services into the latest Microsoft technologies in the cleanest possible way.
Understand cloud computing from a business respective and where ADO.NET Data Services fits within this.