ASP.NET 2.0 Beta Preview

by Bill Evjen (Reuters, St. Louis, MO)

• ISBN13: 9780764572869
• ISBN10: 0764572865
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Wrox

Summary

What is this book about? ASP.NET 2 Beta Preview is timed to coincide with the first widespread beta release of ASP.NET "Whidbey" _ the new version of Microsoft's popular technology for creating dynamic Web sites that pull unique information for each visitor rather that showing everyone the same static HTML pages. The book gets developers up to speed with the new features and capabilities that ASP.NET 2.0 provides. Developers will learn how to build ASP.NET 2.0 applications for themselves from the examples that the book provides. This book is for ASP.NET developers making the transition to this new version of the technology. The changes are many, and in some cases, they're quite dramatic. The book spends a good deal of time alerting you to all that has changed and explaining what you need to know to make the transition to ASP.NET 2.0. Finally, the book focuses on both the Visual Basic .NET and C# developer. Examples throughout the book do not favor one developer over another. Instead, every example is provided in both languages.

Author Biography

<b>Bill Evjen</b> is an active proponent of .NET technologies and community-based learning initiatives for .NET. He has been actively involved with .NET since the first bits were released in 2000. In the same year, Bill founded the St. Louis .NET User Group (http://www.stlnet.org), one of the world&#8217;s first .NET user groups. Bill is also the founder and executive director of the International .NET Association (http://www.ineta.org), which represents more than 200,000 members worldwide.<br> Based in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Bill is an acclaimed author and speaker on ASP.NET and XMLWeb services. He has written or coauthored <i>Professional C#,</i> 3rd Edition and <i>Professional VB.NET,</i> 3rd Edition (Wrox)<i>, XMLWeb Services for ASP.NET</i>, <i>Web Services Enhancements: Understanding the WSE for Enterprise Applications</i>, <i>Visual Basic .NET Bible</i>, and <i>ASP.NET Professional Secrets</i> (all published by Wiley). In addition to writing, Bill is a speaker at numerous conferences including DevConnections, VSLive, and TechEd.<br> Bill is a Technical Director for Reuters, the international news and financial services company, and he travels the world speaking to major financial institutions about the future of the IT industry. He graduated from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, with a Russian language degree. When he isn&#8217;t tinkering on the computer, he can usually be found at his summer house in Toivakka, Finland. You can reach Bill at [e-mail]. He presently keeps his weblog at http://www.geekswithblogs.net/evjen.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xvii
Acknowledgments	xxv
Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0	1	(22)
A Little Bit of History	2	(1)
The Goals of ASP.NET 2.0	2	(7)
Developer productivity	3	(3)
Administration and management	6	(1)
Performance and scalability	7	(1)
Device-specific code generation	8	(1)
Additional New Features of ASP.NET 2.0	9	(10)
New developer infrastructures	9	(6)
New compilation system	15	(1)
Additions to the page framework	15	(3)
New objects for accessing data	18	(1)
New server controls	18	(1)
A New IDE for Building ASP.NET 2.0 Pages	19	(2)
Summary	21	(2)
Visual Studio 2005	23	(18)
The Document Window	23	(6)
Views in the Document Window	23	(2)
The tag navigator	25	(1)
Page tabs	25	(1)
Code change status notifications	26	(1)
Error notifications and assistance	27	(2)
The Toolbox	29	(2)
The Solution Explorer	31	(2)
The Server Explorer	33	(1)
The Properties Window	33	(1)
Lost Windows	34	(1)
Other Common Visual Studio Activities	34	(6)
Creating new projects	35	(1)
Making references to other objects	35	(2)
Using smart tags	37	(1)
Saving and importing Visual Studio settings	38	(2)
Summary	40	(1)
Application and Page Frameworks	41	(34)
Application Location Options	41	(4)
Built-in Web server	41	(2)
IIS	43	(1)
FTP	44	(1)
Web site requiring FrontPage Extensions	45	(1)
The ASP.NET Page Structure Options	45	(6)
Inline coding	47	(2)
New code-behind model	49	(2)
New Page Directives	51	(2)
New attributes	51	(1)
New directives	52	(1)
New Page Events	53	(1)
Cross-Page Posting	54	(7)
New Application Folders	61	(8)
\Code folder	61	(5)
\Themes folder	66	(1)
\Resources folder	66	(3)
Compilation	69	(4)
Summary	73	(2)
New Ways to Handle Data	75	(52)
The New Data Source Controls	75	(1)
The Data-Bound Server Controls	76	(1)
The SqlDataSource and GridView Controls	77	(19)
Reading data	77	(2)
Applying paging in the GridView	79	(3)
Sorting rows in the GridView control	82	(1)
Defining bound columns in the GridView control	83	(4)
Enabling the editing of rows in the GridView control	87	(5)
Deleting data from the GridView	92	(1)
Dealing with other column types in the GridView	93	(3)
The AccessDataSource and DetailsView Controls	96	(13)
Selecting which fields to display in the DetailsView control	101	(2)
Using the GridView and DetailsView together	103	(2)
Updating, inserting, and deleting rows	105	(4)
XmlDataSource Control	109	(5)
ObjectDataSource Control	114	(2)
SiteMapDataSource Control	116	(1)
DataSetDataSource Control	117	(1)
Visual Studio 2005	118	(5)
Connection Strings	123	(1)
Summary	124	(3)
Site Navigation	127	(46)
Site Maps	128	(2)
SiteMapPath Server Control	130	(6)
The PathSeparator property	132	(2)
The Path Direction property	134	(1)
The ParentLevelsDisplayed property	134	(1)
The ShowToolTips property	135	(1)
The SiteMapPath control's child elements	135	(1)
TreeView Server Control	136	(20)
Identifying the TreeView control's built-in styles	138	(1)
Examining the parts of the TreeView control	139	(1)
Binding the TreeView control to an XML file	140	(2)
Selecting multiple options in a TreeView	142	(3)
Specifying custom icons in the TreeView control	145	(2)
Specifying lines used to connect nodes	147	(3)
Working with the TreeView control programmatically	150	(6)
Menu Server Control	156	(9)
Applying different styles to the Menu control	157	(6)
Menu Events	163	(1)
Binding the Menu control to an XML file	163	(2)
SiteMap Data Provider	165	(3)
SiteMapViewType	165	(1)
StartingNodeType	166	(2)
SiteMap API	168	(3)
Summary	171	(2)
Working with Master Pages	173	(30)
Why Do You Need Master Pages?	173	(3)
The Basics of Master Pages	176	(1)
Coding a Master Page	177	(3)
Coding a Content Page	180	(14)
Mixing page types and languages	184	(2)
Specifying which master page to use	186	(1)
Working with the page title	186	(1)
Working with controls and properties from the master page	187	(7)
Specifying Default Content in the Master Page	194	(2)
Nesting Master Pages	196	(3)
Container-Specific Master Pages	199	(1)
Event Ordering	200	(1)
Caching with Master Pages	201	(1)
Summary	201	(2)
Themes and Skins	203	(22)
Using ASP.NET 2.0 Packaged Themes	203	(5)
Applying a theme to a single ASP.NET page	204	(1)
Applying a theme to an entire application	205	(1)
Applying a theme to all applications on a server	206	(1)
Removing themes from server controls	206	(1)
Removing themes from Web pages	207	(1)
Removing themes from applications	208	(1)
Creating Your Own Themes	208	(10)
Creating the proper folder structure	208	(1)
Creating a skin	209	(2)
Including CSS files in your themes	211	(3)
Having your themes include images	214	(4)
Defining Multiple Skin Options	218	(2)
Programmatically Working with Themes	220	(1)
Assigning the page's theme programmatically	220	(1)
Assigning a control's SkinID programmatically	220	(1)
Themes and Custom Controls	221	(2)
Summary	223	(2)
Membership and Role Management	225	(38)
Authentication	226	(1)
Authorization	226	(1)
ASP.NET 2.0 Authentication	226	(21)
Setting up your Web site for membership	226	(3)
Adding users	229	(7)
Asking for credentials	236	(4)
Working with authenticated users	240	(2)
Showing the number of users online	242	(2)
Dealing with passwords	244	(3)
ASP.NET 2.0 Authorization	247	(14)
Using the LoginView server control	248	(1)
Setting up your Web site for role management	249	(3)
Adding and retrieving application roles	252	(3)
Deleting roles	255	(1)
Adding users to roles	256	(1)
Getting all the users of a particular role	256	(2)
Getting all the roles of a particular user	258	(1)
Removing users from roles	259	(1)
Checking users in roles	259	(2)
Using the Web Site Administration Tool	261	(1)
Summary	262	(1)
Personalization	263	(28)
The Personalization Model	263	(1)
Creating Personalization Properties	264	(11)
Adding a simple personalization property	265	(1)
Using personalization properties	266	(4)
Adding a group of personalization properties	270	(1)
Using grouped personalization properties	271	(1)
Defining types for personalization properties	271	(1)
Using custom types	272	(3)
Providing default values	275	(1)
Making personalization properties read-only	275	(1)
Anonymous Personalization	275	(4)
Enabling anonymous identification of the end user	275	(3)
Working with anonymous identification events	278	(1)
Anonymous options for personalization properties	279	(1)
Migrating Anonymous Users	279	(2)
Personalization Providers	281	(9)
Working with the Access personalization provider	281	(1)
Working with the SQL Server personalization provider	282	(7)
Using multiple providers	289	(1)
Summary	290	(1)
Portal Frameworks and Web Parts	291	(32)
Introducing Web Parts	291	(2)
Building Dynamic and Modular Web Sites	293	(24)
Introducing the WebPartManager control	293	(1)
Working with zone layouts	294	(4)
Understanding the WebPartZone control	298	(3)
Explaining the WebPartPageMenu control	301	(9)
Modifying zones	310	(7)
Working with Classes in the Portal Framework	317	(5)
Summary	322	(1)
SQL Cache Invalidation	323	(18)
Caching in ASP.NET 1.0/1.1	323	(2)
Output caching	323	(1)
Partial page caching	324	(1)
Data caching using the Cache object	324	(1)
Cache dependencies	324	(1)
ASP.NET 2.0 unseals the CacheDependency class	325	(1)
Using the SQL Server Cache Dependency	325	(6)
Enabling databases for SQL Server cache invalidation	326	(1)
Enabling tables for SQL Server cache invalidation	327	(1)
Looking at SQL Server	327	(2)
Looking at the tables that are enabled	329	(1)
Disabling a table for SQL Server cache invalidation	329	(1)
Disabling a database for SQL Server cache invalidation	330	(1)
Configuring your ASP.NET Application	331	(1)
Testing SQL Server Cache Invalidation	332	(7)
Adding more than one table to a page	334	(1)
Attaching SQL Server cache dependencies to the Request object	334	(1)
Attaching SQL Server cache dependencies to the Cache object	335	(4)
Summary	339	(2)
Additional New Controls	341	(28)
BulletedList Server Control	341	(5)
HiddenField Server Control	346	(2)
FileUpload Server Control	348	(3)
MultiView and View Server Controls	351	(4)
Wizard Server Control	355	(6)
Customizing the side navigation	357	(1)
Examining the AllowReturn attribute	357	(1)
Working with the StepType attribute	357	(1)
Adding a header to the Wizard control	358	(1)
Working with the Wizard's navigation system	359	(1)
Utilizing Wizard control events	360	(1)
Dynamiclmage Server Control	361	(5)
Working with images from disk	361	(2)
Resizing images	363	(1)
Displaying images from streams	364	(2)
ImageMap Server Control	366	(2)
Summary	368	(1)
Changes to ASP.NET 1.0 Controls	369	(18)
Label Server Control	369	(2)
Button, LinkButton, and ImageButtonServer Controls	371	(1)
DropDownList, ListBox, CheckBoxList, and RadioButtonList Server Controls	372	(2)
Image Server Control	374	(1)
Table Server Control	374	(2)
Literal Server Control	376	(1)
AdRotator Server Control	376	(4)
Panel Server Control	380	(2)
Validation Server Controls	382	(4)
Summary	386	(1)
Administration and Management	387	(26)
The MMC ASP.NET Snap-In	387	(12)
General	389	(1)
Custom Errors	390	(1)
Authorization	391	(2)
Authentication	393	(1)
Application	394	(1)
State Management	395	(2)
Advanced	397	(2)
ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool	399	(8)
Home	401	(1)
Security	402	(1)
Profile	403	(1)
Application	404	(1)
Provider	405	(2)
Managing the Site Counter System	407	(3)
Summary	410	(3)
Visual Basic 8.0 and C# 2.0 Language Enhancements	413	(18)
Overview of Changes	413	(1)
Generics	414	(5)
Iterators	419	(2)
Anonymous Methods	421	(1)
Operator Overloading	422	(1)
Partial Classes	422	(3)
Visual Basic XML Documentation	425	(1)
New Visual Basic Keywords	426	(3)
Continue	426	(2)
Using	428	(1)
My	428	(1)
Global	429	(1)
Summary	429	(2)
Index	431