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Contents at a Glance
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi
About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxxiii
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxv
PART 1 Core Concepts
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■ CHAPTER 1 Introducing ASP.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
■ CHAPTER 2 Visual Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
■ CHAPTER 3 Web Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
■ CHAPTER 4 Server Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
■ CHAPTER 5 ASP.NET Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
■ CHAPTER 6 State Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
PART 2 Data Access
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■ CHAPTER 7 ADO.NET Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
■ CHAPTER 8 Data Components and the DataSet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
■ CHAPTER 9 Data Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
■ CHAPTER 10 Rich Data Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
■ CHAPTER 11 Caching and Asynchronous Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
■ CHAPTER 12 Files and Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
■ CHAPTER 13 LINQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
■ CHAPTER 14 XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
PART 3 Building ASP.NET Websites
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■ CHAPTER 15 User Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
■ CHAPTER 16 Themes and Master Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661
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■ CHAPTER 17 Website Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691
■ CHAPTER 18 Website Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741
PART 4 Security
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■ CHAPTER 19 The ASP.NET Security Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823
■ CHAPTER 20 Forms Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855
■ CHAPTER 21 Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881
■ CHAPTER 22 Windows Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935
■ CHAPTER 23 Authorization and Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971
■ CHAPTER 24 Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005
■ CHAPTER 25 Cryptography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1037
■ CHAPTER 26 Custom Membership Providers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1067
PART 5 Advanced User Interface
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■ CHAPTER 27 Custom Server Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105
■ CHAPTER 28 Design-Time Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147
■ CHAPTER 29 Dynamic Graphics and GDI+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179
■ CHAPTER 30 Portals with Web Part Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1211
PART 6 Client-Side Programming
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■ CHAPTER 31 JavaScript and Ajax Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1269
■ CHAPTER 32 ASP.NET AJAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1319
■ CHAPTER 33 Silverlight 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1383
■ INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1441
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Contents
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi
About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxxiii
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxv
PART 1 Core Concepts
■ ■ ■
■ CHAPTER 1 Introducing ASP.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Evolution of Web Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Early Web Development World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
.NET Revolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Seven Important Facts About ASP.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Fact 1: ASP.NET Is Integrated with the .NET Framework. . . . . . . . . . 5
Fact 2: ASP.NET Is Compiled, Not Interpreted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Fact 3: ASP.NET Is Multilanguage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Fact 4: ASP.NET Is Hosted by the Common Language Runtime. . . . 9
Fact 5: ASP.NET Is Object-Oriented . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Fact 6: ASP.NET Is Multidevice and Multibrowser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Fact 7: ASP.NET Is Easy to Deploy and Configure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
ASP.NET: The Story Continues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
ASP.NET 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
ASP.NET 3.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
.NET 3.5 Service Pack 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Silverlight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
■ CHAPTER 2 Visual Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The .NET Development Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
The Compiler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
The Visual Studio IDE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Websites and Web Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Creating a Projectless Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Multitargeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Designing a Web Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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The Visual Studio IDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Solution Explorer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Document Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Error List and Task List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Server Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
The Code Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Adding Assembly References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
IntelliSense and Outlining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
The Code Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
How Code-Behind Files Are Connected to Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
How Control Tags Are Connected to Page Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
How Events Are Connected to Event Handlers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Web Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Creating a Web Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Migrating a Website from a Previous Version of Visual Studio . . . . 56
Visual Studio Debugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Single-Step Debugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Variable Watches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Advanced Breakpoints. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Visual Studio Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
The Web Development Helper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
■ CHAPTER 3 Web Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Page Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
HTML Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Dynamic User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
The ASP.NET Event Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Automatic Postbacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
View State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
XHTML Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Web Forms Processing Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Page Framework Initialization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
User Code Initialization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Validation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Event Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Automatic Data Binding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Cleanup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
A Page Flow Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
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