Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# follows the well-regarded Pro ASP.NET 1.1, rooted in the same best-practices and pragmatic style. Matthew MacDonald explains how ASP.NET 2.0 works for the professional programmer-covering both new innovations and the features carried over from the previous version. And while new features are important, MacDonald stresses the importance of the technology as a cohesive whole. His broad-based approach shows how all of the features inter-relate. This gives readers the solid understanding they need to code real applications.

Autorentext
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. 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.

Klappentext

This book is the third edition of Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta's well regarded title. It has been comprehensively updated to provide detailed coverage of all.NET 3.5's new features within the same framework and writing style that made the previous editions so successful. It is one of the first books to provide complete coverage of all the new ASP.NET 3.5 features together with a detailed explanation of their usage. Written by the same proven two-author team as the previous editions of this book, it has the same quality of content and explanation and shows how to use the latest cutting-edge features of ASP.NET 3.5.

Zusammenfassung

ASP.NET 2.0 is Microsoft's 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 sites look and feel once and apply it across all your web forms.
• Themes and skins make for easy customization of your sites 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.

Inhalt
Core Concepts.- Introducing ASP.NET.- Visual Studio 2005.- Web Forms.- Server Controls.- ASP.NET Applications.- State Management.- Data Access.- ADO.NET Fundamentals.- Data Components and the DataSet.- Data Binding.- Rich Data Controls.- Caching.- XML.- Files and Streams.- Building ASP.NET Websites.- User Controls.- Themes and Master Pages.- Website Navigation.- Resources and Localization.- Website Deployment.- Security.- The ASP.NET Security Model.- Forms Authentication.- Membership.- Windows Authentication.- Authorization and Roles.- Profiles.- Cryptography.- Custom Membership Providers.- Advanced User Interface.- Custom Server Controls.- Design-Time Support.- JavaScript.- Dynamic Graphics and GDI+.- Portals with Web Part Pages.- Web Services.- Creating Web Services.- Web Service Standards and Extensions.- Advanced Web Services.