Synopses & Reviews
ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed is the most comprehensive book available on the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Framework, covering all aspects of the ASP.NET 3.5 Framework--no matter how advanced.
This edition covers all the new features of ASP.NET 3.5. It explains Microsoft LINQ to SQL in detail. It includes a chapter on the two new data access controls introduced with the ASP.NET 3.5 Framework: ListView and DataPager. With its coverage of ASP.NET AJAX, this book shows you how to take advantage of Microsoft’s server-side AJAX framework to retrofit existing ASP.NET applications with AJAX functionality. It also demonstrates how to use Microsoft’s client-side AJAX framework to build the web applications of the future: pure client-side AJAX applications. All code samples are written in the C# programming language. (Visual Basic versions of all code samples are included on the CD-ROM that accompanies this book.)
- Take advantage of Microsoft’s new database query language, LINQ to SQL, to easily build database-driven web applications
- Learn how to use the new ListView and DataPager data access controls to build flexible user interfaces
- Take advantage of ASP.NET AJAX when building both server-side and client-side web applications
- Use the AJAX Control Toolkit to create auto-complete text fields, draggable panels, masked edit fields, and complex animations
- Design ASP.NET websites
- Secure your ASP.NET applications
- Create custom components
- Build highly interactive websites that can scale to handle thousands of simultaneous users
- Learn to build a complete ASP.NET 3.5 website from start to finish–the last chapter of the book includes a sample ASP.NET 3.5 web application written with LINQ to SQL and ASP.NET AJAX
CD-ROM includes all examples and source code presented in this book in both C# and Visual Basic.
About the Author
Stephen Walther is a Microsoft Software Legend, a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, and a member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau. He has spoken at a number of major conferences, including Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft DevDays, and ASP.NET Connections.
Stephen wrote several ASP.NET best-practice applications for Microsoft. He was the lead developer of the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit and the Issue Tracker Starter Kit.
His company, Superexpert ASP.NET Training (SuperexpertTraining.com), has provided ASP.NET training to companies and organizations across the United States, including NASA, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. House of Representatives, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Verizon, and Microsoft.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I Building ASP.NET Pages
1 Overview of the ASP.NET Framework 7
2 Using the Standard Controls 61
3 Using the Validation Controls 123
4 Using the Rich Controls 181
Part II Designing ASP.NET Websites
5 Designing Websites with Master Pages 237
6 Designing Websites with Themes 269
7 Creating Custom Controls with User Controls 297
Part III Performing Data Access
8 Overview of Data Access 337
9 Using the SqlDataSource Control 379
10 Using List Controls 437
11 Using the GridView Control 481
12 Using the DetailsView and FormView Controls 563
13 Using the Repeater and DataList Controls 619
14 Using the ListView and DataPager Controls 657
Part IV Building Components
15 Building Components 687
16 Using the ObjectDataSource Control 737
17 Building Data Access Components with ADO.NET 809
18 Data Access with LINQ to SQL 901
Part V Site Navigation
19 Using the Navigation Controls 971
20 Using Site Maps 1041
21 Advanced Navigation 1081
Part VI Security
22 Using the Login Controls 1103
23 Using ASP.NET Membership 1161
Part VII Building ASP.NET Applications
24 Maintaining Application State 1221
25 Caching Application Pages and Data 1289
26 Localizing Applications for Multiple Languages 1369
27 Working with the HTTP Runtime 1403
28 Configuring Applications 1443
Part VIII Custom Control Building
29 Building Custom Controls 1499
30 Building Templated Databound Controls 1569
Part IX ASP.NET AJAX
31 Using Server-Side ASP.NET AJAX 1597
32 Using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit 1657
33 Using Client-Side ASP.NET AJAX 1695
Part X Sample Application
34 Building a Code Sample Website 1773
Index 1797