ASP.NET Kick Start

Visual Studio .NEt is the premier development environment for creating .NET applications. The environment includes specialized tools for working with databases, XML files, and XML Web services. Building applications with Visual Studio .NET is a very different experience than building ASP.NET applications with a standard text editor. Visual Studio .NET performs a lot of invisible work in the background, and the environment makes a number of assumptions about the best way to build applications. It is difficult for even an experienced ASP.NET developer to use Visual Studio .NET effectively without any guidance. This book helps readers understand and begin using this complicated environment.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

I. BUILDING WEB FORM PAGES.

1. Getting Familiar with the Development Environment.
2. Using the Visual Studio .NET Designer.
3. Creating Basic Web Form Pages.
4. Validating Web Form Pages.
5. Creating Web User Controls.
6. Debugging Your Web Form Pages.

II. WORKING WITH DATABASE DATA.

7. Using the Visual Database Tools.
8. Overview of ADO.NET.
9. Saving Form Data.
10. Using List Controls.
11. Displaying Data with the Repeater Control.
12. Displaying Data with the DataList Control.
13. Displaying Data with the DataGrid Control.

III. WORKING WITH ASP.NET APPLICATIONS.

14. Improving Application Performance with Caching.
15. Configuring Your Application.
16. Securing Your Application.
17. Maintaining Application State.
18. Handling Application-Wide Events.
19. Deploying Your Application.

IV. COMPONENTS, WEB SERVICES, AND CUSTOM CONTROLS.

20. Building Business Components.
21. Building XML Web Services.
22. Creating Custom Web Form Controls.
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