Learning ASP.Net 3.5

by Liberty, Jesse

• ISBN13: 9780596518455
• ISBN10: 0596518455
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

With this book, you will learn how to create engaging and interactive web applications using the latest version of the world's most popular web development platform: ASP.NET with AJAX, built on the productivity-enhancing features of Visual Studio 2008. All you need to get started is a basic knowledge of HTML and a desire to produce professional quality websites. Learning ASP.NET 3.5 introduces new skills in each new chapter and offers fully annotated and fully functional examples that you can put to work immediately. Each chapter adds detailed summaries, practice questions to ensure comprehension, and exercises so you can apply what you've learned to new situations.

Author Biography

Jesse Liberty is the best-selling author of O'Reilly Media's Learning ASP.NET with AJAX, Programming C#, Programming .NET 3.5, and a dozen other books on programming. He is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft on the Silverlight Development Team, and a frequent contributor to O'Reilly Network websites and publications. Jesse is a former Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T and Vice President for technology development at CitiBank, and was an independent consultant for 12 years.

Dan Hurwitz is the president of Sterling Solutions, Inc., where for nearly two decades he has been providing contract programming and database development to a wide variety of clients.

Brian MacDonald has edited programming and networking books for major publishers on topics ranging from securing Windows servers to PHP web programming to running an eBay business. He also coauthored O'Reilly's Learning C# 2005.

Table of Contents

Preface

About This Book

About This Series

Learning or Programming?

VB Versus C#

How This Book Is Organized

Conventions Used in This Book

Support: A Note from Jesse Liberty

Using Code Examples

We'd Like to Hear from You

Safari<$$$>(r) Books Online

Acknowledgments

Getting Started

Hello World

Creating a New Web Site

Creating HelloWorld

Making the HelloWorld Web Site Interactive

What You Just Did

Summary

Brain Builder

Building Web Applications

Mastering Web Site Fundamentals

Using Controls

Source Code

Summary

Brain Builder

Snappier Web Sites with AJAX

Take a Walk on the Client Side

ScriptManager and UpdatePanel

Controlling Browser History

Extending Controls with the Control Toolkit

TextBoxWaterMarkExtender

PopupControlExtender

CollapsiblePanelExtender

Source Code Listing

Summary

Brain Builder

Exercises

Saving and Retrieving Data

Getting Data from a Database

Binding Data Controls

Create a Sample Web Page

Using a DataSource Control

Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain

GridView Control

Auto-Generated Code

Adding Insert, Update, and Delete Statements

Displaying and Updating the Data

Take It for a Spin

Modifying the Grid Based on Conditions

Selecting Data from the GridView

Passing Parameters to the SELECT Query

LINQ

Creating the Object Model

Using the Object Model

Editing Data in LINQ

ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Source Code Listings

Summary

Brain Builder

Validation

Validation Controls

The RequiredFieldValidator

The Summary Control

The Compare Validator

Range Checking

Regular Expressions

Custom Validation

Summary

Brain Builder

Exercises

Style Sheets, Master Pages, and Navigation

Styles and Style Sheets

Cascading Styles

Inline Styles

Document-Level Styles

External Style Sheets

Master Pages

Adding Content Pages

Using Nested Master Pages

Changing the Master Page at Runtime

Navigation

Buttons and HyperLinks

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