ASP.NET 3.5 | Beginner's Guide

ASP.NET 3.5

Authors: William Sanders

Published: September 2008

eISBN: 9780071591959 0071591958 | ISBN: 9780071591942

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Getting Started

1 Introduction to ASP.NET 3.5

HTML Forms to Nowhere

Try This: HTML Data Entry with No Exit

ASP.NET 3.5 as an Alternative to CGI

From Client Side to Server Side

.NET Organization

2 ASP.NET 3.5 Tools and Development Environment

Visual Studio 2008

Creating a Simple ASP.NET Application

ASPX and C# Files

More Visual Studio 2008 Tools

Other Tools for ASP.NET Development with C#

3 C# and ASP.NET 3.5

C# 3.0 and ASP.NET 3.5

Basic C# Structures

Operators and Punctuators

Conditional Statements

4 Doing More with C# and ASP.NET

Events and Handling Them

Creating and Using Classes

Using Interfaces

Doing More with C# and Object-Oriented Programming

Part II: Forms and Controls

5 HTML Forms: A Review

Working with Form Tags and Attributes

Try This: Using HTML Forms with ASP.NET Web Sites

Try This: Using HTML Buttons

Try This: Using Standard ASP.NET Buttons

Using HTML Forms Interactively

Try This: A Political Poll Using HTML Forms

6 Standard Web Controls

Data Entry

Try This: CheckBox Web Control

Try This: Creating CheckBoxList Web Control

Try This: Making Mutually Exclusive Selections

Data Display

Triggers, Links, and Images

Try This: Events and Triggers

Try This: Using the ImageMap

7 CSS for ASP.NET 3.5 Page Formatting

Styling with the Properties Window

Designing with CSS

Try This: Designing CSS with Visual Studio 2008

CSS External Style Sheets

C# Style

8 Control Events and Event Handlers

Automatic Events

Events and Event Handling

Try This: Using Multiple Web Controls

Button Command Events

Try This: Using the CommandArgument

9 Validation Controls

Where to Validate

RequiredFieldValidator

Try This: Creating a Page with Required Validation

RangeValidator

Try This: Validating on a Range of Values

RegularExpressionValidator

Try This: Working with Regular Expressions

CompareValidator

Try This: Comparing Fields for Validation

CustomValidator

Try This: Customizing Validation

Summarizing Validation Errors

10 Rich Data Controls

Calendar Web Control

Try This: Responding to Selections

Try This: Using the DayOfWeek Property

AdRotator Web Server Control

Try This: Basic AdRotator

Part III: ASP.NET and Databases

11 A SQL Primer

Data Types in SQL and C#: Essential Details and Differences

CREATE: The SQL Command You Will Rarely Use

Adding Data to a Table with INSERT

Looking into a Table with SELECT and FROM

Changing Data with UPDATE

ADD a New Field with ALTER

When You Must DELETE a Record

Removing a Table Using DROP

12 ADO.NET: Hello Database

Creating a Database

Creating Web Sites for Database Use

Entering Data from a Web Site

Using Good Practices

13 Data Binding

What Is Data Binding?

Basic Binding

Try This: Adding Data Binding

Repeater

Try This: Repeating a Table

DataList

Try This: Add a DataList

DataGrid Made Easy

ListView

14 LINQ

LINQ Basics

ASP.NET 3.5 and LINQ

Try This: Getting Started with LINQ

C# Uses LINQ

Try This: Working with the IEnumerable<T> Interface

15 Files

Writing Files

Try This: Write a Text File

Try This: Adding Content to an Existing File

Reading Text Files

Viewing Directories and Files

16 Security

Putting Web.config to Work

Membership Security

Try This: A Member Based Security Web Site

Remote Registration

Try This: A Simple Login and Registration Application

17 ASP.NET Ajax

ASP.NET Ajax

Try This: Upgrading to Ajax

Ajax Timer Control

Try This: Using the Ajax Timer to Load Text Files

Using Events with Ajax

Try This: Loading Images and Multiple Control Events with Ajax

Index