Beginning C# Web Applications With Visual Studio .Net

by Cazzulino, Daniel; Aprea, Victor Garcia; Greenwood, James; Hart, Chris

• ISBN13: 9781861007322
• ISBN10: 1861007329
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(2)
Who Is This Book For?	2	(1)
What Does This Book Cover?	2	(2)
What You Need to Use This Book	4	(1)
Style Conventions	5	(1)
Customer Support and Feedback	6	(5)
How to Download the Source Code for the Book	6	(1)
Errata	6	(1)
Technical Support	7	(1)
p2p.wrox.com	7	(4)
Environment and Architecture	11	(26)
The Web Model	12	(5)
Desktop Applications and Web Applications	13	(1)
Web Servers and Web Clients	14	(1)
The Client Request	15	(1)
Routing the Request	15	(1)
Receiving and Processing the HTTP Request	16	(1)
Server Processing	16	(1)
Routing the Response	16	(1)
Client-Side Processing and Rendering	17	(1)
Configuring Your System for Web Development	17	(9)
Setting up Your Web Server	17	(2)
IIS Administration	19	(1)
Creating Virtual Directories	19	(6)
Configuring Virtual Directories	25	(1)
Dynamic Web Applications	26	(9)
Pros and Cons of Dynamic Content	26	(1)
Client-side Processing and Server-side Processing	27	(1)
Client-side Code	27	(1)
Server-side Code	27	(5)
Maintaining State	32	(1)
Web Application Architecture	33	(1)
ASP.NET Web Applications	34	(1)
Summary	35	(2)
Web Development in .NET	37	(30)
An Introduction to ASP.NET	38	(18)
ASP.NET Pages and Web Forms	38	(1)
Building Web Forms in Visual Studio .NET	39	(1)
The Structure of a Web Form: Presentation and Processing	39	(8)
Using the Properties Browser	47	(5)
Using Code-Behind	52	(4)
Other Aspects of ASP.NET	56	(7)
A Brief Tour of an ASP.NET Application	57	(1)
The Class View	58	(1)
Object Orientation in ASP.NET	59	(1)
Reusability and Encapsulation	60	(1)
Compilation	61	(1)
The Lifecycle of a Page	61	(2)
Summary	63	(4)
User Interfaces and Server Controls	67	(58)
Server Controls	68	(31)
HTML Controls	70	(5)
Visual Styles	75	(3)
Creating a More Flexible Stylesheet	78	(2)
HTML Server Controls	80	(4)
Web Server Controls	84	(6)
Handling Events	90	(3)
Validation Controls	93	(6)
User Controls	99	(11)
Custom Controls	110	(6)
Dynamic Content	116	(3)
Avoiding Code Duplication	119	(3)
Summary	122	(3)
ADO.NET	125	(38)
The Architecture of ADO.NET	126	(3)
Data Providers	128	(1)
Programmatic Use of ADO.NET	129	(19)
Adding Data to a Database	129	(6)
Retrieving Data from a Database	135	(6)
Changing the Data in a Database	141	(7)
Completing the Picture -- The DataSet Object	148	(12)
Data Adapters	149	(1)
Using a DataSet Object	150	(10)
Summary	160	(3)
Data Binding	163	(52)
Introduction to Components	164	(5)
Dynamic Properties	166	(3)
Data Binding	169	(17)
Binding Expressions	170	(1)
The DataBinder Class	170	(1)
Adding Data Binding to Friends Reunion	171	(8)
Binding to Sets of Data	179	(7)
Working Visually with Data	186	(8)
Data Components	186	(1)
Typed DataSets	187	(7)
Advanced Data Binding	194	(19)
Paging	196	(3)
Freestyle Data Binding and Editing -- The Data List	199	(1)
Adding a DataList to our Application	199	(14)
Summary	213	(2)
ASP.NET State Management	215	(54)
State Storage and Scope	215	(1)
Session State	216	(20)
Controlling Session State	229	(4)
Configuring Session State	233	(1)
Session IDs and Cookies	233	(1)
State Modes	234	(2)
Application State	236	(6)
Application Object and Events	241	(1)
View State	242	(10)
Using View State as a Data Store	246	(6)
Transient State	252	(6)
Storing Information using Cookies	258	(7)
Passing Data with Query Strings	264	(1)
Passing Data with Hidden Form Fields	265	(1)
Summary	265	(4)
Markup Languages and XML	269	(30)
Markup Languages	270	(7)
HyperText Markup Language	271	(1)
Extensible Markup Language (XML)	272	(1)
The Significance of XML	273	(1)
Some Applications of XML	274	(1)
The Nature of an XML Document	275	(2)
XML Data Exchange	277	(19)
XML Schemas and Validation	278	(1)
A Sample XML File	278	(2)
Markup Languages, Schemas, and Validation	280	(1)
XML Schemas	281	(2)
XML Namespaces	283	(2)
Building the XML Schema	285	(2)
Definition of a Complex Type	287	(6)
Defining a Custom Simple Type	293	(1)
Restricting Element Occurrence	294	(1)
Viewing the Entire Schema	295	(1)
Summary	296	(3)
XML and Web Development	299	(42)
Creating XML Documents in Visual Studio .NET	300	(5)
Creating XML Documents Visually	300	(3)
Creating XML Documents in Data View	303	(2)
Programmatic Manipulation of XML in .NET	305	(34)
Reading and Validating XML	306	(1)
Uploading an XML File	306	(6)
Receiving the Uploaded File	312	(2)
Validating XML from a Web Application	314	(4)
Processing the Uploaded XML Data	318	(5)
Querying XML Documents: XPath	323	(4)
The Document Object Model (DOM)	327	(7)
Building XPath Expressions Dynamically	334	(3)
XmlDocument versus XmlReader	337	(2)
Summary	339	(2)
Web Services in Web Applications	341	(38)
Overview of Web Services	341	(3)
Relationship to the Server/Browser Model	342	(1)
Visual Studio .NET Support for Web Services	343	(1)
Providing a Web Service	344	(11)
Testing the Web Service	349	(3)
Complex Data Types	352	(3)
Consuming a Web Service	355	(5)
SOAP	360	(2)
Error Handling in Web Services	362	(4)
Web Service Efficiency	366	(8)
Caching	366	(1)
Asynchronous Communication	367	(1)
Refining our Web Service	368	(1)
Reducing the Amount of Data Involved	368	(6)
Adding State to Web Services	374	(1)
Third-party Web Services	374	(1)
Summary	375	(4)
ASP.NET Authentication, Authorization, and Security	379	(30)
Overview	380	(1)
Security Infrastructure	380	(10)
Essential Terminology	381	(1)
Authentication and Authorization	381	(1)
Credential Stores and Security Tokens	381	(2)
Role-Based Security	383	(1)
Principal and Identity	383	(1)
Processing and Initialization	384	(3)
Application Security Configuration	387	(1)
Authentication Configuration	387	(1)
Authorization Configuration	388	(1)
Location Configuration	389	(1)
Windows Authentication	390	(1)
Passport Authentication	391	(1)
Forms Authentication	392	(6)
Customizing Authentication and Role-based Security	398	(9)
Summary	407	(2)
Debugging and Exception Handling	409	(54)
Different Types of Errors	410	(4)
Syntax Errors	410	(2)
Semantic Errors	412	(2)
Input Errors	414	(1)
Debugging Web Applications	414	(31)
ASP.NET Tracing	414	(1)
Implications of Tracing Techniques	415	(1)
Enabling Tracing in ASP.NET	415	(3)
Adding Custom Tracing Statements to Friends Reunion	418	(4)
Enabling and Disabling Trace at the Application Level	422	(1)
The Trace Viewer	423	(2)
Tracing and Assertions in .NET	425	(1)
Using Assertions in .NET Code	425	(1)
Using Assertions in Friends Reunion	426	(3)
The Visual Studio .NET Debugger	429	(1)
Breakpoints	430	(2)
Breakpoint Properties	432	(1)
The Watch Window	433	(6)
The Call Stack Window	439	(1)
Hunting for Bugs	440	(5)
Exceptions	445	(15)
Different Uses for Exceptions	446	(1)
Exceptions and Result Codes: a Comparison	446	(1)
Limitations of Result Codes	446	(1)
How Exceptions Eliminate these Limitations	447	(1)
Exceptions and Exception-handling	447	(1)
Throwing Exceptions	448	(1)
Catching Exceptions	448	(1)
Cleaning Up	449	(3)
Defining Custom Exceptions	452	(1)
Rethrowing Exceptions	453	(2)
Unhandled Exceptions	455	(5)
Summary	460	(3)
Caching and Performance Tuning	463	(50)
The Meaning of Performance	464	(9)
Some Performance-Monitoring Tools	464	(1)
The Task Manager	465	(1)
The Performance Console (or PerfMon)	465	(1)
Performance Objects, Counters, and Instances	466	(1)
ASP.NET Performance Objects	467	(4)
Using Other Counters	471	(1)
Avoiding External Overhead	472	(1)
Performance-Testing the Application	473	(11)
Applying a Load to our Application	473	(1)
Installing the Web Application Stress Tool	474	(1)
Getting Support for the Web Application Stress Tool	474	(1)
Generating a Realistic Set of Data	474	(1)
Preparing a Performance Test with a Simulated Load	475	(4)
Monitoring a Test in WAS	479	(2)
Running the Performance Test	481	(3)
Caching	484	(3)
Caching in a Web Architecture	484	(1)
Cache Expiration	485	(1)
Cache Locations	485	(2)
ASP.NET Caching	487	(16)
Output Caching	488	(2)
Page Caching	490	(1)
Fragment Caching	491	(2)
Applying Output Cache	493	(1)
Data Caching	494	(1)
Adding Data to the ASP.NET Cache via the Cache Object	494	(4)
Data Caching in Friends Reunion	498	(5)
Other ASP.NET Performance Tips	503	(7)
Controlling ViewState	503	(3)
Response.Redirect and Server.Transfer	506	(1)
Conservative Use of Web Controls	507	(1)
Using Session State	508	(1)
Monitoring the Cache API	509	(1)
Improving Database Access	509	(1)
Summary	510	(3)
Publishing Web Applications in .NET	513	(38)
Deployment Before .NET	514	(1)
Deployment in .NET	514	(1)
XCOPY Deployment	514	(1)
Deployment Projects	515	(1)
Deploying a Web Application by Hand	515	(5)
Setup Projects in Visual Studio .NET	520	(10)
Web Setup Projects	522	(6)
Dependencies and Outputs	528	(2)
Using the Setup Project	530	(2)
Uninstalling a Project	532	(1)
Advanced Functionality	532	(12)
Adding a Custom File	533	(1)
Editing the User Interface	534	(4)
Building the Project	538	(2)
Custom Actions	540	(3)
Configuration Settings	543	(1)
Launch Conditions	544	(3)
Search Target Machine Node	544	(1)
Launch Conditions Node	545	(2)
Summary	547	(1)
Web Applications -- An Overview	548	(3)
Appendix A: Friends Reunion	551	(6)
Appendix B: Configuration of IIS and MSDE	557	(28)
Configuration of IIS	557	(9)
Configuring Server-wide Settings	557	(2)
Connection Settings	559	(1)
Logging User Activity	559	(1)
Increasing Performance	560	(1)
General Security Settings	561	(2)
Configuring ASP.NET Applications in IIS	563	(2)
The Role of ISAPI	565	(1)
The ASP.NET System Process	566	(1)
Locking Down IIS	566	(1)
ASP.NET and IIS	567	(4)
Impersonation	567	(4)
An Introduction to IIS 6	571	(4)
The Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine	575	(10)
A Smaller SQL Server	575	(1)
Obtaining and Installing MSDE	575	(4)
Using MSDE via the Server Explorer	579	(6)
Index	585