ASP.NET v. 2.0 : the beta version

Title:

Personal Author:

Homer, Alex

Publication Information:

Boston : Addison-Wesley, 2005

ISBN:

9780321257277

Subject Term:

Microsoft .NET.

Web site development

Internet programming

Added Author:

Sussman, David, 1966-

Howard, Rob, 1973-

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Praise for "ASP.NET v. 2.0--The Beta Version "This fast-paced book looks like an ideal way to jumpstart your ASP.NET 2.0 experience. It has coverage of all of the new bits and had me tapping away at my keyboard in no time." --Darren Neimke, Microsoft MVP-ASP.NET "The new features in ASP.NET 2.0 will amaze and astound you, and these authors have methodically outlined the features with clear and concise examples. An absolute must for your library!" --Ronda Pederson, consultant "These authors take the pain out of getting up to speed on the many new features in the ASP.NET 2.0 beta." --Ken Cox, Microsoft MVP-ASP.NET and ASP.NET Developer "A clear and concise, yet thorough, introduction to new and improved features that are set to take the Web development community by storm in ASP.NET 2.0. An excellent resource for any ASP.NET developer." --Olga Londer, Microsoft MVP-IIS/CMS and Principal Technologist, QA "ASP.NET 2.0 is not just a minor update. It allows you to create,Web applications in an entirely new way. Just reading the chapter on the new membership and security features of ASP.NET 2.0 will make this book worth your while." --Douglas Reilly, MVP-ASP.NET Access Microsystems Inc. "There's a large 'wow' factor to this book, which, coupled with the well-worded text and excellent examples, makes you wish the final release wasn't just out of reach." --Dan Maharry, ."NET Developers Journal Praise for "A First Look at ASP.NET v. 2.0 "I would highly recommend A First Look at ASP.NET v. 2.0 to existing ASP.NET developers. The topic is exciting and the authors did a great job of covering the bases in an enjoyable and easy-to-followformat." --Scott Forsyth, Microsoft MVP-ASP/ASP.NET, Director of IT, Orcsweb.com "Those of us lucky enough to attend PDC or have an MSDN universal subscription can access the ASP.NET 2.0 alpha. For the rest of th

Author Notes

Alex Homer is managing director of Stonebroom, Ltd.
Dave Sussman speaks frequently at Microsoft development conferences and has been writing about ASP since its earliest releases
Rob Howard founded Telligent Systems

Figures	p. xvii
Tables	p. xxiii
Foreword	p. xxix
Preface	p. xxxiii
1 An Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0	p. 1
What's Wrong with ASP.NET 1.x?	p. 1
New Features	p. 3
Templates for a Consistent Look and Feel	p. 3
Styles for Controls	p. 5
Securing Your Site	p. 7
Personalizing Your Site	p. 9
Creating Portals	p. 1
Setting Up and Managing Your Site	p. 16
Using Images on Your Site	p. 18
Using Data on Your Site	p. 19
Internationalization	p. 21
Adding Mobility Support	p. 22
Compilation and Deployment	p. 24
Development Tools	p. 25
Summary	p. 26
2 Tools and Architecture	p. 27
Visual Studio 2005	p. 28
Project-less Development	p. 30
The Solution Explorer	p. 32
The Toolbox	p. 32
The Design Window	p. 32
The Design Surface	p. 34
The Server Explorer	p. 35
Visual Inheritance	p. 38
Built-in Administration	p. 39
Code Separation	p. 40
Dynamic Compilation	p. 42
New Folders for Dynamic Compilation	p. 42
Using the /Code Folder in Visual Studio 2005	p. 43
Folder Hierarchy	p. 44
Pre-compilation of Applications	p. 48
In-place Pre-compilation	p. 48
Pre-compilation for Deployment without Source	p. 50
Pre-compilation for Deployment with Source	p. 51
The Compilation API	p. 51
Summary	p. 52
3 Data Source Controls and Data Binding	p. 53
Code-Free Data Binding	p. 54
Displaying Data with a Data Source Control	p. 54
Adding Row Sorting Capabilities	p. 56
Adding Row Paging Capabilities	p. 56
Built-in Small-Screen and Mobile Device Support	p. 57
Linking Page Controls and Data Source Control Parameters	p. 59
Editing Data with a GridView and a Data Source Control	p. 61
The DetailsView Control	p. 63
Data Source Controls	p. 64
Types of Data Source Controls	p. 65
The SqlDataSource Control	p. 66
The AccessDataSource Control	p. 84
The Base Classes for the Data Source Controls	p. 86
The XmlDataSource Control	p. 87
The DataSetDataSource Control	p. 92
The ObjectDataSource Control	p. 94
Possible Forthcoming Data Source Controls	p. 102
Summary	p. 102
4 The GridView, DetailsView, and FormView Controls	p. 105
The GridView Control	p. 106
An Overview of the GridView Control	p. 106
Declaring a GridView Control	p. 107
Defining the Columns in a GridView Control	p. 123
Using a Mixture of Column Types	p. 136
The DetailsView Control	p. 142
Using a Stand-Alone DetailsView Control	p. 143
Creating a Master-Detail Page with GridView and DetailsView Controls	p. 145
Inserting and Editing Rows with a DetailsView Control	p. 146
The DetailsView Control Interface	p. 150
The FormView Control	p. 156
Declaring a FormView Control	p. 156
Declaring Templates for a FormView Control	p. 157
The New and Simplified Data Binding Syntax	p. 161
The ASP.NET 1.0 Syntax for Data Binding	p. 161
Simplified ASP.NET 2.0 Syntax for Nonhierarchical Data Binding	p. 162
Simplified ASP.NET 2.0 Syntax for Hierarchical (XML) Data Binding	p. 162
Two-Way Data Binding Syntax for Templated Controls	p. 164
New and Simplified Data Binding Syntax Options	p. 166
Building Data-Bound Pages with Visual Studio 2005	p. 166
Summary	p. 168
5 Master Pages and Navigation	p. 169
Master Pages in Detail	p. 169
Creating Master Pages	p. 170
Using a Master Page	p. 172
Default Content	p. 174
Nested Master Pages	p. 174
Master Page Configuration	p. 179
Device-Specific Master Pages	p. 180
Event Ordering	p. 181
Setting the Master Page Programmatically	p. 181
Accessing the Master Page	p. 181
Navigation	p. 183
Site Maps	p. 184
Site Map Providers	p. 184
Site Map Configuration Files	p. 186
Using a Site Map File	p. 188
Site Maps in Depth	p. 189
Showing a Navigation Path	p. 192
SiteMapPath Events	p. 195
The SiteMapNode Object	p. 197
Accessing the Site Map at Runtime	p. 198
Navigation Controls	p. 199
Summary	p. 202
6 Security	p. 203
Membership	p. 206
Membership Providers	p. 208
Setting Up Membership	p. 209
Creating a New User	p. 209
Validating User Credentials	p. 213
Retrieving a User	p. 213
The MembershipUser Class	p. 218
Updating a User's Properties	p. 221
Deleting a User	p. 222
Security Server Controls	p. 224
The CreateUserWizard Control	p. 224
The Login Control	p. 225
The Login Status Control	p. 227
The Login View Control	p. 229
The Passowrd Recovery Control	p. 231
Role Manager	p. 234
Setting Up Role Manager	p. 235
Creating Roles	p. 237
Adding Users to Roles	p. 239
Returning a User's Roles	p. 240
Checking Whether a User Is in a Role	p. 242
Removing Users from Roles	p. 242
Deleting a Role	p. 242
Role Caching	p. 244
Cookieless Forms Authentication	p. 245
Enabling Cookieless Forms Authentication	p. 245
The Web Site Administration Tool	p. 247
The Home Page	p. 248
The Security Page	p. 248
Security Management	p. 249
Other Pages	p. 251
Summary	p. 251
7 Personalization and Themes	p. 253
Storing and Retrieving User Personalization Data	p. 255
Configuring Personalization	p. 256
Accessing Other Users' Personalization Data	p. 261
Setting Up the Databases for Personalization	p. 261
Data Access Optimizations	p. 268
Membership and Personalization	p. 271
Anonymous Identification	p. 271
Anonymous Personalization	p. 273
Migrating from Anonymous to Authenticated Users	p. 275
The Provider Design Pattern	p. 276
Configuration	p. 276
Implementation of the ProviderBase Base Class	p. 278
Implementation of the Feature-Specific Interface	p. 279
Writing a Personalization Provider	p. 279
Configuring Profile Properties	p. 284
Themes	p. 286
Themes and Skins	p. 286
Customization Themes and Stylesheet Themes	p. 287
Global Themes	p. 287
Creating Themes	p. 287
Setting a Page Customization Theme	p. 290
Setting a Page Stylesheet Theme	p. 290
Setting a Skin	p. 291
Applying Skins to All Controls	p. 292
Applying Skins to Dynamically Created Controls	p. 292
Allowing User Selection of Skins	p. 293
Using Personalization for Themes	p. 293
Collections of Controls	p. 295
Disabling Themes	p. 296
Adding Themes to a Site	p. 297
Enabling Themes in Custom Controls	p. 297
Summary	p. 298
8 Web Parts and the Portal Framework	p. 299
The ASP.NET 2.0 Portal Framework	p. 300
The Goals of the Portal Framework	p. 301
About the Web Parts Framework	p. 304
A Simple Web Parts Example Page	p. 306
An Overall View of the Example Page	p. 306
The Events Zone Declaration	p. 311
The Web Part User Control Declarations	p. 312
Catalog Zones	p. 314
Editor Zones	p. 317
Page Design and Web Part Editing	p. 318
Help Features for Web Parts	p. 321
Connecting Web Parts	p. 322
Declaring Static Connections	p. 323
Editing Web Part Connections	p. 323
Working with Web Parts in Code	p. 324
The WebPartManager Class	p. 326
The Zone Classes	p. 330
The GenericWebPart Class	p. 335
Web Parts and Visual Studio 2005	p. 339
Summary	p. 340
9 Pages, Posting, Resources, and Validation	p. 341
Cross-Page Posting	p. 342
Posting to Another Page	p. 342
Accessing the Previous Page	p. 343
Transferring to Another Page in Code	p. 344
Detecting Cross-Page Posting	p. 345
The Page Life Cycle	p. 346
Posting to Another Application	p. 346
Validation	p. 346
The ValidationGroup Property	p. 347
The SetFocusOnError Property	p. 349
The ValidateEmptyText Property	p. 349
URL Mapping	p. 349
Client-Side Script Features	p. 351
Registering Script Blocks	p. 351
Client Callbacks	p. 352
New Form Capabilities	p. 361
Form Focus	p. 362
Client Click Events	p. 362
Submitting Disabled Controls	p. 363
Changes to Page Directives	p. 363
The Page Directive	p. 364
The Master Directive	p. 364
The Master Type Directive	p. 365
The PreviousPageType Directive	p. 365
Changes to Page Headings	p. 366
xHTML Compliance	p. 366
The Page and Control Life Cycle	p. 367
Site and Page Counters	p. 369
Using Site Counters	p. 371
Configuring Site and Page Counters	p. 374
Resources and Localization	p. 377
Code-Free Localization	p. 377
What Expression Type to Use, and When	p. 386
User-Selectable Localization	p. 386
Programmatic Access of Resources	p. 387
Extensibility	p. 388
Web Resources	p. 388
Summary	p. 390
10 The New Browser and Mobile Device Controls	p. 393
Programming for Different Types of Devices	p. 394
The Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit	p. 395
The Unified Control and Adapter Architecture	p. 396
Browser Definitions	p. 400
The BrowserCapabilities Class	p. 401
Page Design and Device Support	p. 402
Device Filters	p. 402
Summary of the New Controls in ASP.NET 2.0	p. 404
Standard Form- and Page-Based Controls	p. 404
Rich Controls	p. 405
Login and Authentication Controls	p. 406
Navigation Controls and Counters	p. 406
Data Access and Display Controls	p. 407
Mobile Device Controls	p. 408
The New Controls in Detail	p. 408
New Controls within the HtmlControls Namespace	p. 408
The BulletedList Control	p. 418
The DynamicImage Control	p. 423
The Image Generation Service	p. 427
The ImageMap Control	p. 429
The FileUpload Control	p. 434
The HiddenField Control	p. 437
The MultiView and View Controls	p. 439
The Wizard Control	p. 446
Controls and Attributes Specific to Mobile Devices	p. 455
The ContentPager Control	p. 456
The PhoneLink Control	p. 462
The SoftKeyLabel Attribute	p. 463
Mobile Browser Emulators	p. 464
Summary	p. 465
11 Enhancements to Existing Controls	p. 467
Summary of New Control Features	p. 468
Accessibility Improvements	p. 468
Input Control Enhancements	p. 469
Changes to the Forms and Postback Architecture	p. 470
Validation Controls and Validation Groups	p. 470
Data Source Control Integration	p. 471
Mobile Device Support	p. 471
Site and Page Counter Integration	p. 472
List Control Enhancements	p. 472
Themes Integration	p. 472
Tables of Control Enhancements	p. 473
Enhancements to Existing Controls in the HtmlControls Namespace	p. 473
Enhancements to Existing Controls in the WebControls Namespace	p. 474
Details of Individual Control Enhancements	p. 481
The AdRotator Control	p. 481
The Button, LinkButton, and ImageButton Controls	p. 487
The CheckBox Control	p. 488
The DataGrid Control	p. 489
The HyperLink Control	p. 490
The Image Control	p. 491
The Label Control	p. 491
The List and ListItem Controls	p. 492
The Literal Control	p. 495
The Panel Control	p. 496
The Table, TableHeaderCell, and TableCell Controls	p. 498
Summary	p. 505
12 Caching	p. 507
Enabling Database Cache Invalidation	p. 510
Enabling a Database for SQL Cache Invalidation	p. 512
Enabling a Table for SQL Cache Invalidation	p. 512
Listing Tables Enabled for SQL Cache Invalidation	p. 513
Invalidating the ASP.NET Cache	p. 514
Configuration	p. 514
Invalidating Output-Cached Pages	p. 515
The SqlCacheDependency Class	p. 518
Creating SQL Server 7 and 2000 Dependencies	p. 519
Creating SQL Server 2005 Dependencies	p. 519
The CacheDependency Class	p. 520
Summary	p. 521
13 Configuration and Administration	p. 523
Application Configuration Files	p. 524
Changed Sections	p. 524
New Sections	p. 533
State Management	p. 570
Control State	p. 571
Page State Persistence	p. 572
Session State Plugability	p. 573
The Web Site Administration Tool	p. 576
The Management API	p. 580
IIS Integration	p. 581
Management Classes	p. 582
Summary	p. 584
Index	p. 585

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