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this print for content only—size & color not accurate spine = 0.850" 448 page count Books for professionals By professionals ® Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional Dear Reader, Just when you think you’ve learned all there is to know about developing for the Web, the market turns around and demands newer and more exciting things! It’s pretty clear that the landscape hasn’t settled down, and is a long way from doing so. This book was designed with new and experienced developers in mind—to take you back to the important basics, to build a platform on which you’ll build your platforms, and to start equipping you for what’s next. As such, you’ll start by looking through HTML and dynamic generation of HTML using ASP.NET technology. You’ll learn key fundamental aspects of ASP. NET, such as web forms, data binding, and deploying ASP.NET applications using IIS. Next, you’ll look at .NET 3.x (WCF, WPF, WF, and CardSpace) and what it adds to your toolbox with technologies for presentation, connectivity, workflow, and security. After you’ve established a good foundation of these topics, you’ll move on to ASP.NET AJAX. You’ll take a peek under the covers of Ajax and look at what makes it so special. You’ll also see how Ajax eases the programming burden in creating a powerful UI experience. Finally, you’ll dive into Silverlight and see examples of Silverlight programming with XAML and JavaScript. By the time you’ve finished reading, you’ll be prepared for what’s next. Welcome aboard! Laurence Moroney Author of Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 1.0, Foundations of ASP.NET AJAX, Foundations of WPF, Foundations of Atlas US $44.99 Shelve in Web Development User level: Beginner–Intermediate Moroney Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX The eXperT’s Voice ® in .neT Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX From Novice to Professional cyan MaGenTa yelloW Black panTone 123 c Laurence Moroney Companion eBook Available THE APRESS ROADMAP Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed Foundations of ASP.NET AJAX Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008 Pro ASP.NET 3.5 Server Controls with AJAX Components Pro Silverlight 2.0 Ajax Patterns and Best Practices Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX www.apress.com SOURCE CODE ONLINE Companion eBook See last page for details on $10 eBook version ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-959-4 ISBN-10: 1-59059-959-4 9 781590 599594 5 4 4 9 9 Learn how to build web applications using ASP.NET AJAX, WPF, WCF, and WF, as well as Silverlight. 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Introduction to Web Development T o understand web development, you have to understand the Web, and to understand the Web, you have to understand the Internet that the Web is built on This chapter will give you a brief history of the connected world, discussing first the origins of the Internet, then the origins of the Web, and finally the technologies used by developers to build applications on the Web It... 277 s CHAPTER 12 AJAX Extensions for ASP.NET 279 ASP.NET AJAX Overview 279 Editions of ASP.NET AJAX 282 Getting Started with ASP.NET AJAX 282 Migrating ASP.NET to AJAX 289 Building a Simple Ajax Application with ASP.NET ... into building ASP.NET web applications through the use of web forms You’ll look into the page processing model, postbacks, and how events are handled in web applications You’ll also start to look into data in your web applications You’ll see how to download, configure, and manage a SQL Server Express instance, and how to access the data and functionality in it from code, from UI tools, and from data... File menu, and then select New Web Site (see Figure 2-1) Figure 2-1 Creating a new web site The New Web Site dialog box appears, in which you can select the type of web site application that you want to create The available default options are as follows: ASP NET Web Site: This is a web site that uses ASP.NET to execute It comes with a sample file called Default.aspx, which is an ASP.NET Web Forms application... path as C:\WebNextBook\Chapter2Example1, so this will create a new web site called Chapter2Example1 in the C:\WebNextBook directory When you click OK, Visual Studio will create the web site and launch the IDE, which enables you to create and edit your application’s various web form pages and support files 11 9594CH02.qxd 12 1/3/08 10:46 AM Page 12 CHAPTER 2 s BASICS OF WEB DEVELOPMENT WITH ASP.NET Figure... see how it hangs together with the standard web technologies of HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, and more There is a great suite of tools available to the ASP.NET developer, including the free Web Developer Express, and you’ll look at how to download, install, and use this to build, deploy, and debug ASP NET server applications Finally, you’ll survey the lifetime of an ASP.NET application, learning how the... experiences and not applications or sites That is because the user experience is the heart of the future Web Before you can start looking at the future, it is good to understand the current suite of web development and deployment technologies that are available to you In Part 1 of this book, you’ll look at the Microsoft stack of technologies that allow you to build web services and applications, and how... between client and server, data caching, and much more Summary This chapter has given you a very brief background on what the Internet is, how the Web fits into the Internet, and how web application development has evolved to this point It has also introduced you to the ASP NET technology In this book, you’ll look at ASP NET in the NET Framework and how it is used to build the web applications and services... INTRODUCTION TO WEB DEVELOPMENT Third, the concept of web services was identified as being vital for the future of the Web, because they are a device-agnostic, technology-agnostic means for sharing data across the multi-platform Internet ASP.NET was designed to make the complicated process of creating, exposing, and consuming web services as simple as possible Finally, performance of the Web depends not... set up the virtual web sites that your application will run in Once you’ve wrapped all that up, you’ll be ready to move into Part 2, which delves into the next-generation web technologies, and take an in-depth look at AJAX extensions for NET, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, and more 9594CH01.qxd 1/2/08 2:41 PM PART Page 1 1 Building Web Applications 9594CH01.qxd . ROADMAP Silverlight and ASP. NET Revealed Foundations of ASP. NET AJAX Pro ASP. NET 3.5 in C# 2008 Pro ASP. NET 3.5 Server Controls with AJAX Components Pro Silverlight 2.0 Ajax Patterns and Best Practices Beginning. build web applications using ASP. NET AJAX, WPF, WCF, and WF, as well as Silverlight. Beginning