Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB

This book was written to introduce you to the features and capabilities that ASP.NET 4 offers, as well as to give you an explanation of the foundation that ASP.NET provides. We assume you have a general understanding of Web technologies, such as previous versions of ASP.NET, Active Server Pages 2.0/3.0, or JavaServer Pages. If you understand the basics of Web programming, you should not have much trouble following along with this book's content.

If you are brand new to ASP.NET, be sure to check out Beginning ASP.NET 4: In C# and VB by Imar Spaanjaars (Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2010) to help you understand the basics.

In addition to working with Web technologies, we also assume that you understand basic programming constructs, such as variables, For Each loops, and object-oriented programming.

You may also be wondering whether this book is for the Visual Basic developer or the C# developer. We are happy to say that it is for both! When the code differs substantially, this book provides examples in both VB and C#.

This book explores the 4 release of ASP.NET. It covers each major new feature included in ASP.NET 4 in detail. The following list tells you something about the content of each chapter.

• Chapter 1, Application and Page Frameworks. The first chapter covers the frameworks of ASP.NET applications as well as the structure and frameworks provided for single ASP.NET pages. This chapter shows you how to build ASP.NET applications using IIS or the built-in Web server that comes with Visual Studio 2010. This chapter also shows you the folders and files that are part of ASP.NET. It discusses ways to compile code and shows you how to perform cross-page posting. This chapter ends by showing you easy ways to deal with your classes from within Visual Studio 2010.

• Chapters 2, 3, and 4. These three chapters are grouped together because they all deal with server controls. This batch of chapters starts by examining the idea of the server control and its pivotal role in ASP.NET development. In addition to looking at the server control framework, these chapters delve into the plethora of server controls that are at your disposal for ASP.NET development projects. Chapter 2, ASP.NET Server Controls and Client-Side Scripts, looks at the basics of working with server controls. Chapter 3, ASP.NET Web Server Controls, covers the controls that have been part of the ASP.NET technology since its initial release and the controls that have been added in each of the ASP.NET releases. Chapter 4, Validation Server Controls, describes a special group of server controls: those for validation.

• Chapter 5, Working with Master Pages. Master pages provide a means of creating templated pages that enable you to work with the entire application, as opposed to single pages. This chapter examines the creation of these templates and how to apply them to your content pages throughout...

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Bill Evjen is one of the most active proponents of .NET technologies. He is the founder of the International .NET Association (INETA), author or coauthor of more than two dozen books, and Global Head of Platform Architecture at Thomson Reuters, Lipper. Scott Hanselman is a principal program manager lead working in the Server and Tools Online Division at Microsoft. He has a popular blog and weekly podcast at www.computerzen.com and speaks worldwide on ASP.NET. Devin Rader Devin Rader works at Infragistics where he focuses on delivering great experiences to developers using their controls. He's also a former INETA board member.

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INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER 1 Application and Page Frameworks.

CHAPTER 2 ASP.NET Server Controls and Client-Side Scripts.

CHAPTER 3 ASP.NET Web Server Controls.

CHAPTER 4 Validation Server Controls.

CHAPTER 5 Working with Master Pages.

CHAPTER 6 Themes and Skins.

CHAPTER 7 Data Binding.

CHAPTER 8 Data Management with ADO.NET.

CHAPTER 9 Querying with LINQ.

CHAPTER 10 Working with XML and LINQ to XML.

CHAPTER 11 Introduction to the Provider Model.

CHAPTER 12 Extending the Provider Model.

CHAPTER 13 Site Navigation .

CHAPTER 14 Personalization.

CHAPTER 15 Membership and Role Management.

CHAPTER 16 Portal Frameworks and Web Parts.

CHAPTER 17 HTML and CSS Design with ASP.NET.

CHAPTER 18 ASP.NET AJAX.

CHAPTER 19 ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.

CHAPTER 20 Security .

CHAPTER 21 State Management.

CHAPTER 22 Caching .

CHAPTER 23 Debugging and Error Handling.

CHAPTER 24 File I/O and Streams.

CHAPTER 25 User and Server Controls.

CHAPTER 26 Modules and Handlers.

CHAPTER 27 ASP.NET MVC.

CHAPTER 28 Using Business Objects.

CHAPTER 29 ADO.NET Entity Framework.

CHAPTER 30 ASP.NET Dynamic Data.

CHAPTER 31 Working with Services.

CHAPTER 32 Building Global Applications.

CHAPTER 33 Confi guration.

CHAPTER 34 Instrumentation.

CHAPTER 35 Administration and Management.

CHAPTER 36 Packaging and Deploying ASP.NET Applications.

APPENDIX A Migrating Older ASP.NET Projects.

APPENDIX B ASP.NET Ultimate Tools.

APPENDIX C Silverlight 3 and ASP.NET.

APPENDIX D Dynamic Types and Languages.

APPENDIX E ASP.NET Online Resources.

INDEX.

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