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MacDonald Freeman Szpuszta FOURTH EDITION ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010 Companion eBook Available 7.5 x 9.25 spine = 3.03125" 1616 page count THE EXPERT’S VOICE ® IN .NET Pro ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010 FOURTH EDITION Matthew MacDonald, Adam Freeman, and Mario Szpuszta Pro this print for content only—size & color not accurate CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK PANTONE 123 C BOOKS FOR PROFESSIONALS BY PROFESSIONALS ® Matthew MacDonald, Author of Pro Silverlight 4 in C# Beginning ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010 Pro WPF in C# 2010 Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls US $59.99 Shelve in: .NET User level: Intermediate–Advanced www.apress.com SOURCE CODE ONLINE Companion eBook See last page for details on $10 eBook version ISBN 978-1-4302-2529-4 9 781430 225294 5 59 9 9 Adam Freeman, Co-Author of Introducing Visual C# 2010 Pro .NET 4 Parallel Programming in C# Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2010 Visual C# 2010 Recipes Programming .NET Security Microsoft .NET XML Web Services Step by Step C# for Java Developers Programming the Internet with Java Active Java Mario Szpuszta, Co-Author of Advanced .NET Remoting Pro ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010 Dear Reader, As you know, ASP.NET is Microsoft’s premier technology for creating server- side web applications. In this book, you’ll learn about ASP.NET 4, which is the latest milestone in web development. ASP.NET 4 adds a host of refinements and two major new features to pre- vious versions of the technology. The first major change is the inclusion of ASP.NET MVC—an alternative way to design web pages—that offers clean- er URLs, better testability, and tight control over HTML. The second is ASP. NET Dynamic Data—a data scaffolding framework that allows you to build an entire website out of flexible, reusable templates. You’ll learn about both of these innovations in this book. You’ll also get a solid look at Silverlight, Microsoft’s next-generation browser plug-in that allows you to draw vector graphics, show animations, and play media files in your ASP.NET pages. The book also covers: • Core concepts of ASP.NET 4. You’ll learn the fundamentals of Visual Studio, ASP. NET, and the web forms model—and how to extend this infrastructure when you need to. • Data access. 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You will need to answer questions pertaining to this book in order to successfully download the code. www.it-ebooks.info iii Contents at a Glance Contents v About the Author xxxii About the Technical Reviewer xxxiii Introduction xxxiv Part 1: Core Concepts 1 ■ Chapter 1: Introducing ASP.NET 3 ■ Chapter 2: Visual Studio 21 ■ Chapter 3: Web Forms 77 ■ Chapter 4: Server Controls 129 ■ Chapter 5: ASP.NET Applications 183 ■ Chapter 6: State Management 235 Part 2: Data Access 275 ■ Chapter 7: ADO.NET Fundamentals 277 ■ Chapter 8: Data Components and the DataSet 321 ■ Chapter 9: Data Binding 353 ■ Chapter 10: Rich Data Controls 403 ■ Chapter 11: Caching and Asynchronous Pages 477 ■ Chapter 12: Files and Streams 527 ■ Chapter 13: LINQ 563 ■ Chapter 14: XML 617 www.it-ebooks.info iv Part 3: Building ASP.NET Websites 679 ■ Chapter 15: User Controls 681 ■ Chapter 16: Themes and Master Pages 703 ■ Chapter 17: Website Navigation 735 ■ Chapter 18: Website Deployment 791 Part 4: Security 833 ■ Chapter 19: The ASP.NET Security Model 835 ■ Chapter 20: Forms Authentication 851 ■ Chapter 21: Membership 877 ■ Chapter 22: Windows Authentication 933 ■ Chapter 23: Authorization and Roles 963 ■ Chapter 24: Profiles 995 ■ Chapter 25: Cryptography 1029 ■ Chapter 26: Custom Membership Providers 1061 Part 5: Advanced User Interface 1099 ■ Chapter 27: Custom Server Controls 1101 ■ Chapter 28: Graphics, GDI+, and Charting 1135 ■ Chapter 29: JavaScript and Ajax Techniques 1179 ■ Chapter 30: ASP.NET AJAX 1239 ■ Chapter 31: Portals with Web Part Pages 1303 ■ Chapter 32: MVC 1363 ■ Chapter 33: Dynamic Data 1397 ■ Chapter 34: Silverlight 1437 Index 1491 www.it-ebooks.info ■ CONTENTS v Contents Contents at a Glance iii About the Author xxxii About the Technical Reviewer xxxiii Introduction xxxiv Part 1: Core Concepts 1 ■ Chapter 1: Introducing ASP.NET 3 The Seven Pillars of ASP.NET 3 #1: ASP.NET Is Integrated with the .NET Framework 3 #2: ASP.NET Is Compiled, Not Interpreted 4 #3: ASP.NET Is Multilanguage 6 #4: ASP.NET Is Hosted by the Common Language Runtime 8 #5: ASP.NET Is Object-Oriented 9 #6: ASP.NET Supports all Browsers 11 #7: ASP.NET Is Easy to Deploy and Configure 11 The Evolution of ASP.NET 12 ASP.NET 1.0 and 1.1 12 ASP.NET 2.0 12 ASP.NET 3.5 13 ASP.NET 4 16 Silverlight 18 Summary 19 www.it-ebooks.info ■ CONTENTS vi ■ Chapter 2: Visual Studio 21 Introducing Visual Studio 21 Websites and Web Projects 22 Creating a Projectless Website 23 Designing a Web Page 28 The Visual Studio IDE 35 Solution Explorer 37 Document Window 38 Toolbox 38 Error List and Task List 39 Server Explorer 41 The Code Editor 42 Adding Assembly References 43 IntelliSense and Outlining 46 Visual Studio 2010 Improvements 50 The Code Model 56 How Code-Behind Files Are Connected to Pages 59 How Control Tags Are Connected to Page Variables 60 How Events Are Connected to Event Handlers 61 Web Projects 63 Creating a Web Project 64 Migrating a Website from a Previous Version of Visual Studio 66 Visual Studio Debugging 68 Single-Step Debugging 69 Variable Watches 72 Advanced Breakpoints 74 The Web Development Helper 74 Summary 76 ■ Chapter 3: Web Forms 77 Page Processing 78 HTML Forms 78 www.it-ebooks.info ■ CONTENTS vii Dynamic User Interface 80 The ASP.NET Event Model 81 Automatic Postbacks 82 View State 84 XHTML Compliance 88 Client-Side Control IDs 94 Web Forms Processing Stages 97 Page Framework Initialization 98 User Code Initialization 99 Validation 99 Event Handling 100 Automatic Data Binding 100 Cleanup 101 A Page Flow Example 101 The Page As a Control Container 104 Showing the Control Tree 104 The Page Header 109 Dynamic Control Creation 110 The Page Class 112 Session, Application, and Cache 112 Request 113 Response 114 Server 118 User 121 Trace 121 Accessing the HTTP Context in Another Class 127 Summary 128 ■ Chapter 4: Server Controls 129 Types of Server Controls 129 The Server Control Hierarchy 130 HTML Server Controls 132 The HtmlControl Class 133 www.it-ebooks.info ■ CONTENTS viii The HtmlContainerControl Class 133 The HtmlInputControl Class 134 The HTML Server Control Classes 134 Setting Style Attributes and Other Properties 136 Programmatically Creating Server Controls 137 Handling Server-Side Events 139 Web Controls 142 The WebControl Base Class 143 Basic Web Control Classes 145 Units 147 Enumerations 147 Colors 148 Fonts 148 Focus 150 The Default Button 151 Scrollable Panels 152 Handling Web Control Events 153 The List Controls 156 The Selectable List Controls 157 The BulletedList Control 161 Input Validation Controls 162 The Validation Controls 163 The Validation Process 164 The BaseValidator Class 165 The RequiredFieldValidator Control 167 The RangeValidator Control 167 The CompareValidator Control 168 The RegularExpressionValidator Control 168 The CustomValidator Control 171 The ValidationSummary Control 172 Using the Validators Programmatically 174 Validation Groups 175 www.it-ebooks.info [...]... . 144 1 Creating a Silverlight Solution 144 2 Silverlight Compilation . 144 3 The Entry Page 144 5 Creating a Silverlight Project . 144 9 Designing a Silverlight Page 145 0 Understanding XAML 145 4 Setting Properties 145 5 The XAML Code-Behind 145 6 Handling Events 145 7 xxx www.it-ebooks.info... CONTENTS Editing Templates in Visual Studio .43 6 Binding to a Method 43 7 Handling Events in a Template 43 9 Editing with a Template 44 0 Client IDs in Templates .44 7 The ListView 44 7 Grouping .45 1 Paging .45 3 The DetailsView and FormView 45 4 The DetailsView 45 4 The FormView... Dynamic Data Project 140 3 Customizing a Dynamic Data Site 140 4 Customizing with Templates 140 4 Customizing with Routes 141 4 Customizing with Metadata 142 3 Customizing Validation . 143 0 Summary 143 5 ■ Chapter 34: Silverlight 143 7 Understanding Silverlight 143 8 Silverlight vs Flash 143 9 Silverlight... 45 7 Advanced Grids 45 9 Summaries in the GridView 45 9 A Parent/Child View in a Single Table 46 1 Editing a Field Using a Lookup Table 46 4 Serving Images from a Database .46 6 Detecting Concurrency Conflicts 47 2 Summary .47 6 ■ Chapter 11: Caching and Asynchronous Pages .47 7 Understanding ASP.NET Caching ... Caching .47 7 Output Caching 47 8 Declarative Output Caching 47 9 Caching and the Query String 48 0 Caching with Specific Query String Parameters .48 1 Custom Caching Control .48 1 Caching with the HttpCachePolicy Class 48 3 Post-Cache Substitution and Fragment Caching 48 4 Cache Profiles 48 7 Cache Configuration... Mechanisms for Windows Authentication 935 Implementing Windows Authentication . 942 Configuring IIS 7.x 942 Configuring ASP.NET 944 Deeper Into the IIS 7.x Pipeline 945 Denying Access to Anonymous Users 948 Accessing Windows User Information 950 Impersonation 956 Impersonation and Delegation in Windows ... dozen books about NET programming, including Pro Silverlight 3 in C# (Apress, 2009), Pro WPF in C# 2010 (Apress, 2010), and Beginning ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010 (Apress, 2010) He lives in Toronto with his wife and two daughters ■ Adam Freeman is an experienced IT professional who has held senior positions in a range of companies, most recently chief technology officer and chief operating officer of a global... Chapter 24: Profiles 995 Understanding Profiles 995 Profile Performance 996 How Profiles Store Data 997 Profiles and Authentication 998 Profiles vs Custom Data Components .998 Using the SqlProfileProvider 998 Creating the Profile Tables 999 Configuring the Provider 1002 Defining Profile Properties... 42 3 Sorting and Selection 42 5 Advanced Sorting .42 5 Paging the GridView 42 7 Automatic Paging .42 7 Paging and Selection 42 9 Custom Pagination with the ObjectDataSource 42 9 Customizing the Pager Bar 43 2 GridView Templates 43 3 Using Multiple Templates 43 5 xiii www.it-ebooks.info... 337 Filling a DataSet 338 Working with Multiple Tables and Relationships 340 Searching for Specific Rows 343 Using the DataSet in a Data Access Class 344 Data Binding . 345 The DataView Class . 345 Sorting with a DataView . 346 Filtering with a DataView 348 Advanced Filtering with Relationships . 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