Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008: Includes Silverlight 2

✍ Scribed by Matthew MacDonald, Mario Szpuszta, Vidya Vrat Agarwal (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1656
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

ASP.NET 3.5 is the principal standard for creating dynamic web pages on the Windows platform. Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008: Includes Silverlight 2 raises the bar for high–quality, practical advice on learning and deploying Microsoft’s dynamic web solution.

Updated with everything you need to integrate Silverlight 2.0 into your ASP.NET applications, this book teaches you all about Silverlight’s exciting features so that your ASP projects can be rich in visual flair and compelling to the user. You’ll learn how to use the new levels of abstraction in the Entity Framework to design elegant, powerful application architectures.

Seasoned .NET professionals Matthew MacDonald, Mario Szpuszta, and Vidya Vrat Agarwal explain how you can get the most from these groundbreaking technologies. They cover ASP.NET 3.5 as a whole, illustrating both the newer 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 3.5 applications in the best possible style.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introducing ASP.NET....Pages 3-23
Visual Studio....Pages 25-76
Web Forms....Pages 77-123
Server Controls....Pages 125-178
ASP.NET Applications....Pages 179-233
State Management....Pages 235-273
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
ADO.NET Fundamentals....Pages 277-320
Data Components and the DataSet....Pages 321-362
Data Binding....Pages 363-413
Rich Data Controls....Pages 415-490
Caching and Asynchronous Pages....Pages 491-541
Files and Streams....Pages 543-577
LINQ....Pages 579-646
XML....Pages 647-711
Front Matter....Pages 713-713
User Controls....Pages 715-737
Themes and Master Pages....Pages 739-771
Website Navigation....Pages 773-827
Website Deployment....Pages 829-922
Front Matter....Pages 923-923
The ASP.Net Security Model....Pages 925-962
Forms Authentication....Pages 963-989
Front Matter....Pages 923-923
Membership....Pages 991-1048
Windows Authentication....Pages 1049-1088
Authorization and Roles....Pages 1089-1125
Profiles....Pages 1127-1161
Cryptography....Pages 1163-1194
Custom Membership Providers....Pages 1195-1233
Front Matter....Pages 1235-1236
Custom Server Controls....Pages 1237-1284
Design-Time Support....Pages 1285-1320
Dynamic Graphics and GDI+....Pages 1321-1356
Portals with Web Part Pages....Pages 1357-1418
Front Matter....Pages 1419-1419
JavaScript and Ajax Techniques....Pages 1421-1478
ASP.NET AJAX....Pages 1479-1540
Silverlight 2....Pages 1541-1602
Back Matter....Pages 1603-1641

✦ Subjects

Programming Techniques