Beginning ASP.NET Web pages with WebMatrix

436 Pages·2011·11.828 MB·English

by  Mike Brind, Imar Spaanjaars, Michael Apostol

Beginning
ASP.neT WeB PAgeS WiTh WeBMATrix®
FOreWOrD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
inTrODucTiOn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
chAPTer 1 Getting Started with WebMatrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
chAPTer 2 Designing Web Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
chAPTer 3 Designing Websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
chAPTer 4 Programming Your Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
chAPTer 5 Adding User Interactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
chAPTer 6 AJAX and jQuery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
chAPTer 7 Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
chAPTer 8 Working with Files and Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
chAPTer 9 Debugging and Error Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
chAPTer 10 Introduction to Data and Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
chAPTer 11 A Deeper Dive Into Data Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
chAPTer 12 Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
chAPTer 13 Optimizing Your Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
chAPTer 14 Deploying Your Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
APPenDix Exercise Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
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Beginning
ASP.neT Web Pages with WebMatrix®

Beginning
ASP.neT Web Pages with WebMatrix®
Mike Brind
Imar Spaanjaars
Beginning ASP.neT Web Pages with WebMatrix®
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ABOuT The AuThOrS
Mike BrinD spent the first 20 years of his working life in a series of successful sales and marketing
roles, towards the end of which he was introduced to HTML and databases. A dormant inner geek
took over and Mike became very much more interested in developing websites than selling advertis-
ing space on them.
As well as on books such as those in the Wrox Beginner series, Mike became reliant on the enormous
amount of free help provided by online communities while he learned his new craft. Mike is now
one of the all-time leading contributors to the official ASP.NET forums at http://forums.asp.net
and is also a moderator there.
As a result of his contributions to the ASP.NET community via the forums, and through his
technical article site at www.mikesdotnetting.com, Mike received the Microsoft Most Valuable
Professional (MVP) Award for ASP.NET in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. Beginning ASP.NET Web
Pages with WebMatrix is Mike’s first book.
Mike is currently the Operations Director for ITEC Systems, a company that produces specialist
software for recruitment agencies all around the world.
Mike lives in Rochester in the UK with his wife of over 25 years, Anna. Together they have two
daughters and a grandson.
iMAr SPAAnjAArS graduated in Leisure Management at the Leisure Management School in the
Netherlands, but he quickly changed his career path into the Internet world.
After working in the Internet business at various web agencies for thirteen years, he started up
his own company called De Vier Koeden (http://devierkoeden.com), a small Internet agency
specializing in consultancy and development of Internet and intranet applications with Microsoft
technologies such as ASP.NET 4. He’s also the technical director of Dynamicweb Netherlands and
Dynamicweb North America, two branches of the popular Danish CMS and eCommerce system
Dynamicweb.
Imar has written books on ASP.NET and Macromedia Dreamweaver, all published under the Wrox
brand. He is also one of the top contributors to the Wrox Community Forum at p2p.wrox.com,
where he shares his knowledge with fellow programmers.
Since 2008, Imar has been rewarded with Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for
his contributions to the ASP.NET community.
Imar lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands, with his girlfriend, Fleur. You can contact him through his
personal web site at http://imar.spaanjaars.com or by email at [email protected].