Introduction

ASP.NET 2.0 is the latest version of Microsoft’s revolutionary ASP.NET technology. It is the principal standard for creating dynamic web pages on the Windows platform. ASP.NET 2.0 boasts a range of important new features that make it superior to any Windows web-presentation technology that has come before it. A few of these are:

Masterpages let you define your site’s look and feel once and apply it across all your web forms.
Themes and skins make for easy customization of your site’s look and feel. Generics these much vaunted new additions to the .NET Framework allow you to create a data structure without committing to a specific data type – they’ll revolutionize the way you code
Personalization – ASP.NET 2.0 makes it easier than ever before to create customized experiences tailored for individual users.

These, combined with improvements in everything from speed (ASP.NET 2.0 pages are faster to both write and serve), administration , data access, security and scalability make ASP.NET 2.0 the leading force in .NET web development.

Seasoned .NET professionals Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta explain how you can get the most from this ground-breaking new technology. They cover ASP.NET 2.0 as a whole, illustrating both the brand-new features and the functionality carried over from previous versions of ASP. This book will give you the knowledge you need to code real ASP.NET 2.0 application in the best possible style.

The book will teach you ASP.NET 2.0 in five clear steps. You will learn:

Core concepts of ASP.NET 2.0. Why it’s special. What its fundamental principals are. The basics of Visual Studio. How ASP.NET 2.0 controls are created, and how they fit into ASP.NET 2.0 pages, ultimately creating full applications
Data access details. The intricacies of ADO.NET 2.0 and how to perform data binding to many sources—from databases, to file-streams, to XML
Security. Once considered the Achilles heel of all Windows web applications, security has been completely revamped in ASP.NET 2.0. This section explains the various forms of available security, and how to best apply them
Taking things further using Advanced User Interface Techniques. This includes User Controls, Customer Server Controls, client-side JavaScript and GDI+. This is where the real strength of ASP.NET 2.0 lies
Web Services. In an increasingly connected world, working with web services grows in importance. This book will show you how to work with them

Author Information

Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he's the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET Distributed Applications. In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics. Send e-mail to him with praise, condemnation, and everything in between, to p2p@prosetech.com.

Mario Szpuszta is working in the Developer and Platform Group of Microsoft Austria. Before he started working for Microsoft, Mario was involved in several projects based on COM+ and DCOM with Visual Basic and Visual C++ as well as projects based on Java and J2SE. With Beta 2 of the .NET Framework, he started developing Web applications with ASP.NET. Right now, as developer evangelist for Microsoft Austria, he is doing workshops, trainings, and proof-of-concept projects together with independent software vendors in Austria based on .NET, Web Services, and Office 2003 technologies.

What is in this book

Contents at a Glance

About the Revising Authors

About the Technical Reviewers

Introduction

PART 1 - Core Concepts

CHAPTER 1 - Introducing ASPNET

CHAPTER 2 - Visual Studio 2005

CHAPTER 3 - Web Forms

CHAPTER 4 - Server Controls

CHAPTER 5 - ASPNET Applications

CHAPTER 6 - State Management

PART 2 - Data Access

CHAPTER 7 - ADONET Fundamentals

CHAPTER 8 - Data Components and the DataSet

CHAPTER 9 - Data Binding

CHAPTER 10 - Rich Data Controls

CHAPTER 11 - Caching

CHAPTER 12 - XML

CHAPTER 13 - Files and Streams

PART 3 - Building ASPNET Websites

CHAPTER 14 - User Controls

CHAPTER 15 - Themes and Master Pages

CHAPTER 16 - Website Navigation

CHAPTER 17 - Resources and Localization

CHAPTER 18 - Website Deployment

PART 4 - Security

CHAPTER 19 - The ASPNET Security Model

CHAPTER 20 - Forms Authentication

CHAPTER 21 - Membership

CHAPTER 22 - Windows Authentication

CHAPTER 23 - Authorization and Roles

CHAPTER 24 - Profiles

CHAPTER 25 - Cryptography

CHAPTER 26 - Custom Membership Providers

PART 5 - Advanced User Interface

CHAPTER 27 - Custom Server Controls

CHAPTER 28 - Design-Time Support

CHAPTER 29 - JavaScript

CHAPTER 30 - Dynamic Graphics and GDI+

CHAPTER 31 - Portals with Web Part Pages

PART 6 - Web Services

CHAPTER 32 - Creating Web Services

CHAPTER 33 - Web Service Standards and Extensions

CHAPTER 34 - Advanced Web Services

INDEX

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