Pro ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010, 4th Edition

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Contents at a Glance

Contents....................................................................................................................v
About the Author................................................................................................xxxii
About the Technical Reviewer...........................................................................xxxiii
Introduction.......................................................................................................xxxiv

Part 1: Core Concepts...............................................................................................1
■ Chapter 1: Introducing ASP.NET...........................................................................3
■ Chapter 2: Visual Studio.....................................................................................21
■ Chapter 3: Web Forms........................................................................................77
■ Chapter 4: Server Controls...............................................................................129
■ Chapter 5: ASP.NET Applications.....................................................................183
■ Chapter 6: State Management.........................................................................235
Part 2: Data Access..............................................................................................275
■ Chapter 7: ADO.NET Fundamentals..................................................................277
■ Chapter 8: Data Components and the DataSet.................................................321
■ Chapter 9: Data Binding...................................................................................353
■ Chapter 10: Rich Data Controls........................................................................403
■ Chapter 11: Caching and Asynchronous Pages...............................................477
■ Chapter 12: Files and Streams.........................................................................527
■ Chapter 13: LINQ..............................................................................................563
■ Chapter 14: XML...............................................................................................617

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Part 3: Building ASP.NET Websites.......................................................................679
■ Chapter 15: User Controls................................................................................681
■ Chapter 16: Themes and Master Pages...........................................................703
■ Chapter 17: Website Navigation.......................................................................735
■ Chapter 18: Website Deployment.....................................................................791
Part 4: Security.....................................................................................................833
■ Chapter 19: The ASP.NET Security Model........................................................835
■ Chapter 20: Forms Authentication...................................................................851
■ Chapter 21: Membership..................................................................................877
■ Chapter 22: Windows Authentication...............................................................933
■ Chapter 23: Authorization and Roles...............................................................963
■ Chapter 24: Profiles.........................................................................................995
■ Chapter 25: Cryptography..............................................................................1029
■ Chapter 26: Custom Membership Providers..................................................1061
Part 5: Advanced User Interface.........................................................................1099
■ Chapter 27: Custom Server Controls..............................................................1101
■ Chapter 28: Graphics, GDI+, and Charting.....................................................1135
■ Chapter 29: JavaScript and Ajax Techniques................................................1179
■ Chapter 30: ASP.NET AJAX.............................................................................1239
■ Chapter 31: Portals with Web Part Pages......................................................1303
■ Chapter 32: MVC............................................................................................1363
■ Chapter 33: Dynamic Data.............................................................................1397
■ Chapter 34: Silverlight...................................................................................1437

Index...................................................................................................................1491

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Contents

Contents at a Glance................................................................................................iii
About the Author................................................................................................xxxii
About the Technical Reviewer...........................................................................xxxiii
Introduction.......................................................................................................xxxiv

Part 1: Core Concepts...............................................................................................1
■ Chapter 1: Introducing ASP.NET...........................................................................3
The Seven Pillars of ASP.NET..........................................................................................3
#1: ASP.NET Is Integrated with the .NET Framework.............................................................................3
#2: ASP.NET Is Compiled, Not Interpreted..............................................................................................4
#3: ASP.NET Is Multilanguage................................................................................................................6
#4: ASP.NET Is Hosted by the Common Language Runtime...................................................................8
#5: ASP.NET Is Object-Oriented..............................................................................................................9
#6: ASP.NET Supports all Browsers......................................................................................................11
#7: ASP.NET Is Easy to Deploy and Configure......................................................................................11
The Evolution of ASP.NET..............................................................................................12
ASP.NET 1.0 and 1.1.............................................................................................................................12
ASP.NET 2.0..........................................................................................................................................12
ASP.NET 3.5..........................................................................................................................................13
ASP.NET 4.............................................................................................................................................16
Silverlight.............................................................................................................................................18
Summary.......................................................................................................................19

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■ Chapter 2: Visual Studio.....................................................................................21
Introducing Visual Studio...............................................................................................21
Websites and Web Projects..................................................................................................................22
Creating a Projectless Website.............................................................................................................23
Designing a Web Page..........................................................................................................................28
The Visual Studio IDE.....................................................................................................35
Solution Explorer..................................................................................................................................37
Document Window...............................................................................................................................38
Toolbox.................................................................................................................................................38
Error List and Task List.........................................................................................................................39
Server Explorer.....................................................................................................................................41
The Code Editor.............................................................................................................42
Adding Assembly References...............................................................................................................43
IntelliSense and Outlining.....................................................................................................................46
Visual Studio 2010 Improvements........................................................................................................50
The Code Model.............................................................................................................56
How Code-Behind Files Are Connected to Pages.................................................................................59
How Control Tags Are Connected to Page Variables............................................................................60
How Events Are Connected to Event Handlers.....................................................................................61
Web Projects..................................................................................................................63
Creating a Web Project.........................................................................................................................64
Migrating a Website from a Previous Version of Visual Studio.............................................................66
Visual Studio Debugging................................................................................................68
Single-Step Debugging.........................................................................................................................69
Variable Watches..................................................................................................................................72
Advanced Breakpoints..........................................................................................................................74
The Web Development Helper.......................................................................................74
Summary.......................................................................................................................76
■ Chapter 3: Web Forms........................................................................................77
Page Processing............................................................................................................78
HTML Forms.........................................................................................................................................78
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Dynamic User Interface........................................................................................................................80
The ASP.NET Event Model....................................................................................................................81
Automatic Postbacks............................................................................................................................82
View State............................................................................................................................................84
XHTML Compliance...............................................................................................................................88
Client-Side Control IDs.........................................................................................................................94
Web Forms Processing Stages......................................................................................97
Page Framework Initialization..............................................................................................................98
User Code Initialization.........................................................................................................................99
Validation..............................................................................................................................................99
Event Handling....................................................................................................................................100
Automatic Data Binding......................................................................................................................100
Cleanup...............................................................................................................................................101
A Page Flow Example.........................................................................................................................101
The Page As a Control Container.................................................................................104
Showing the Control Tree...................................................................................................................104
The Page Header................................................................................................................................109
Dynamic Control Creation...................................................................................................................110
The Page Class............................................................................................................112
Session, Application, and Cache........................................................................................................112
Request..............................................................................................................................................113
Response............................................................................................................................................114
Server.................................................................................................................................................118
User....................................................................................................................................................121
Trace...................................................................................................................................................121
Accessing the HTTP Context in Another Class....................................................................................127
Summary.....................................................................................................................128
■ Chapter 4: Server Controls...............................................................................129
Types of Server Controls..............................................................................................129
The Server Control Hierarchy.............................................................................................................130
HTML Server Controls..................................................................................................132
The HtmlControl Class........................................................................................................................133
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The HtmlContainerControl Class.........................................................................................................133
The HtmlInputControl Class................................................................................................................134
The HTML Server Control Classes......................................................................................................134
Setting Style Attributes and Other Properties.....................................................................................136
Programmatically Creating Server Controls.......................................................................................137
Handling Server-Side Events..............................................................................................................139
Web Controls...............................................................................................................142
The WebControl Base Class................................................................................................................143
Basic Web Control Classes.................................................................................................................145
Units...................................................................................................................................................147
Enumerations.....................................................................................................................................147
Colors.................................................................................................................................................148
Fonts...................................................................................................................................................148
Focus..................................................................................................................................................150
The Default Button..............................................................................................................................151
Scrollable Panels................................................................................................................................152
Handling Web Control Events.............................................................................................................153
The List Controls..........................................................................................................156
The Selectable List Controls...............................................................................................................157
The BulletedList Control.....................................................................................................................161
Input Validation Controls..............................................................................................162
The Validation Controls.......................................................................................................................163
The Validation Process.......................................................................................................................164
The BaseValidator Class.....................................................................................................................165
The RequiredFieldValidator Control....................................................................................................167
The RangeValidator Control................................................................................................................167
The CompareValidator Control............................................................................................................168
The RegularExpressionValidator Control............................................................................................168
The CustomValidator Control..............................................................................................................171
The ValidationSummary Control.........................................................................................................172
Using the Validators Programmatically..............................................................................................174
Validation Groups................................................................................................................................175
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