ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated

1. Technology, Tools, and Getting Started When microsoft released the .NET Framework 1.0 Technology Preview in July 2000, it was immediately clear that Web development was going to change. The company's then-current tec...

2. Is It Really This Easy? In the previous chapter, you saw how ASP.NET 2.0 contains a raft of new features that reduce the code you need to write and save you time and effort when building dynamic and interactive Web p...

3. Data Source and Data Display Controls In the previous chapter, you saw how easy it can be to construct rich data-driven Web pages quickly, and integrate them into a site. The created pages have a great deal of functi...

4. Data Binding to Business Objects In the previous chapter, you saw how the SqlDataSource control provides a declarative way to access databases, allowing easy two-way data binding for controls. While this works well,...

5. Advanced Data and Page Techniques In Chapters 3 and 4, you saw how the data source controls provide an interface between the display controls, such as the GridView and DetailsView, and the underlying data store, whet...

6. Data and Output Caching Caching is the act of storing something for later retrieval, and in the Web world it is used to improve performance. There are many factors that affect the performance of Web sites, and two of...

7. Working with XML We looked at a variety of topics relating to data and databases in Chapters 3, 4, and 5, but these aren't the only sources of data in modern applications. XML has increasingly become an important dat...

8. Building Interactive Web Forms Traditionally, building web pages and Web applications has been unlike most other development scenarios. When you build an application in a language like Visual Basic, Pascal, C++, or a...

9. The Page Class and Master Pages In the previous chapter, you saw the controls provided with ASP.NET and how many of the more useful of these controls are used. You also saw some discussion of the ASP.NET page archite...

10. Web Site Navigation Techniques Two common approaches for linking Web pages together were part of the original specifications for HTML. You can use a hyperlink, implemented as a lt;agt; element, or a lt;formgt; secti...

11. Security and Membership ASP.NET contains a range of features that make it easy to create areas of a Web site or Web application that are not universally available to anonymous visitors. This is a common requirement...

12. Profiles, Personalization, and Themes In the previous chapter, you saw how easy it is to implement security features and membership in your Web sites and Web applications with ASP.NET. The built-in membership and ro...

13. Building Web Portals Customization is a big topic in application development. Users like to be able to change the layout, appearance, and behavior of their applicationsfine-tuning them to better suit their business...

14. Usability, Accessibility, Mobile Devices, Localization So far, this book has concentrated on the features of ASP.NET with respect to developing Web pages and Web applications that generate standard HTML output for t...

15. Using the Framework Classes Most of this book so far has concentrated, quite correctly, on the classes in the System.Web and associated namespaces of the .NET Framework. This is what you would expect, because it is...

16. Web Services For the final chapter in the book we're going to be looking at extending the reach of your applications by allowing them to communicate with other applications. The reasons for this communication can be...