Maximizing ASP.NET Real World, Object-Oriented Development

The Object Model The single greatest leap of faith a developer needs to make in the world of ASP.NET is to accept the object-oriented...

Classes: The Code Behind the Objects In the last chapter, we briefly described the code structure for classes. Now we'll look at the underlying...

Class Design In the last chapter, we blazed through the basics of many of the components that can make up a class. With that...

Application Architecture To this point in the book, we've explored the design and development of individual classes. These units of code enable you to...

Object-Oriented Programming Applied: A Custom Data Class In "The Object Model," I gave you an analogy that compares the concept of a class to...

The Nuts and Bolts of IIS and Web Applications In the first part of the book, we discussed a lot of code in rather...

The ASP.NET Event Model Everything in ASP.NET happens because some trigger caused it to happen. In many scripting languages, a script is executed only...

HttpHandlers and HttpModules Web developers frequently think in terms of pages, but ASP.NET offers a framework that enables you to do virtually anything with...

Server Controls Server controls are the heart of everything that makes developing a Web form easy. These classes give us a programmatic way to...

Web Services as Objects Starting in 2001, Web services seemed to be the focus of every other technology story, as experts promised they would...

Membership and Security If you could pick just one advantage of the Internet over every other popular medium out there, that advantage would be...

Profiles, Themes, and Skins Membership solves the common problem of storing basic information about our users and authenticating them. What it does not do...

Declarative Programming Declarative programming, as the name would imply, enables you to declare high-level objects that address a problem. Declarative programming has been a...

Developing with Visual Studio Visual Studio is easily the most prized piece of software on a .NET developer's computer. This integrated development environment (IDE)...

Performance, Scalability, and Metrics ASP.NET makes it possible to develop Web applications quickly and easily, but the relative ease of use doesn't mean that...

Testing, Deployment, and Code Management It's easy to get so wrapped up in creating the greatest Web application ever that we allow testing to...

More Advanced Topics There are a few more topics that you should have a general knowledge about to round out your .NET experience. Instead...