www.it-ebooks.info ffirs.indd iffirs.indd i 4/10/2013 9:08:25 PM4/10/2013 9:08:25 PM www.it-ebooks.info PROFESSIONAL ASP.NET 4.5 IN C# AND VB INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xliii PART I ASP.NET FUNDAMENTALS CHAPTER 1 One ASP.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 CHAPTER 2 HTML5 and CSS3 Design with ASP.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 CHAPTER 3 ASP.NET Web Forms Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 PART II CONTROLS CHAPTER 4 ASP.NET Server Controls and Client-Side Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 CHAPTER 5 ASP.NET Web Server Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 CHAPTER 6 Validation Server Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 CHAPTER 7 User and Server Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 PART III DATA ACCESS CHAPTER 8 Data Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 CHAPTER 9 Model Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 CHAPTER 10 Querying with LINQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .371 CHAPTER 11 Entity Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 CHAPTER 12 ASP.NET Dynamic Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 CHAPTER 13 Working with Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455 PART IV PROVIDERS CHAPTER 14 Introduction to the Provider Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .529 CHAPTER 15 Extending the Provider Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559 PART V ASP.NET FEATURES CHAPTER 16 Working with Master Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591 CHAPTER 17 Site Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621 CHAPTER 18 Personalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671 CHAPTER 19 Membership and Role Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701 CHAPTER 20 Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759 Continues ffirs.indd iffirs.indd i 4/10/2013 9:08:25 PM4/10/2013 9:08:25 PM www.it-ebooks.info PART VI APPLICATION STATE CHAPTER 21 State Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791 CHAPTER 22 Caching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823 PART VII CLIENT-SIDE DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 23 ASP.NET AJAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857 CHAPTER 24 Ajax Control Toolkit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895 CHAPTER 25 jQuery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957 CHAPTER 26 Real-Time Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983 CHAPTER 27 Developing Websites with Mobile in Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1001 PART VIII APPLICATION CONFIGURATION AND DEPLOYMENT CHAPTER 28 Confi guration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027 CHAPTER 29 Debugging and Error Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075 CHAPTER 30 Modules and Handlers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1105 CHAPTER 31 Asynchronous Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1121 CHAPTER 32 Building Global Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1135 CHAPTER 33 Packaging and Deploying ASP.NET Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1163 PART IX ADDITIONAL ASP.NET TECHNOLOGIES CHAPTER 34 ASP.NET MVC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1187 CHAPTER 35 ASP.NET Web Pages and Razor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1215 PART X APPENDIXES APPENDIX A Migrating Older ASP.NET Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1239 APPENDIX B COM Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1247 APPENDIX C ASP.NET Ultimate Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1257 APPENDIX D Administration and Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1269 APPENDIX E Dynamic Types and Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295 APPENDIX F ASP.NET Online Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305 APPENDIX G Visual Studio Extensibility with NuGet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333 ffirs.indd iiffirs.indd ii 4/10/2013 9:08:26 PM4/10/2013 9:08:26 PM www.it-ebooks.info PROFESSIONAL ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB ffirs.indd iiiffirs.indd iii 4/10/2013 9:08:26 PM4/10/2013 9:08:26 PM www.it-ebooks.info ffirs.indd ivffirs.indd iv 4/10/2013 9:08:26 PM4/10/2013 9:08:26 PM www.it-ebooks.info PROFESSIONAL ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB Jason N. 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Transform File Bundling and Minification What Is Bundling and Minification? Enabling Bundling and Minification Summary 1051 1053 1054 1059 1062 1063 1064 1064 1065 1066 1068 1068 1070 1072 1072 1073 1074 CHAPTER 29: DEBUGGING AND ERROR HANDLING Design-Time Support 1075 1075 Syntax Notifications Immediate and Command Window Task List Tracing 1076 1077 1077 1078 System.Diagnostics.Trace and ASP.NET s Page.Trace... 1002 Modifying the Viewport Using CSS Media Queries 1003 1005 ASP.NET Mobile Applications 1007 Detecting Mobile Browsers and Devices Serving Mobile Master Pages Creating Mobile Web Forms Friendly URLs in ASP.NET Web Forms ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Applications Adaptive Rendering in ASP.NET MVC 4 Creating Mobile-Specific Views Providing Display Modes Including jQuery Mobile and the ViewSwitcher Using the Mobile... Process Storing Application-Specific Settings Programming Configuration Files Protecting Configuration Settings Editing Configuration Files Creating Custom Sections Using the NameValueFileSectionHandler Object Using the DictionarySectionHandler Object Using the SingleTagSectionHandler Object Using Your Own Custom Configuration Handler Using Configuration Transforms Adding web.config Transforms Updating the Config... Passwords ASP.NET 4.5 Authorization Using the LoginView Server Control Setting Up Your Website for Role Management Adding and Retrieving Application Roles Deleting Roles Adding Users to Roles Getting All the Users of a Particular Role Getting All the Roles of a Particular User Removing Users from Roles Checking Users in Roles Understanding How Roles Are Cached Using the SimpleMembership API Using the... developer and Director of Technology at United One Resources in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania His programming career started with a simple GOTO statement and continued over 15 years of developing Windows and web applications During this time, Jason has had the opportunity to plan, build, test, and deploy several enterprise applications including integrations with accounting and operating systems and B2B... 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