ASP. NET 2 for Dummies,9780764579073

ASP. NET 2 for Dummies

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Pub. Date: 2005-12-19
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Summary

More than one million developers now use ASP.NET, the Microsoft technology for creating dynamic, data-driven Web sites Published day and date with the new Visual Studio 2005 release, this revision of our bestselling book covers new language features as well as the much-anticipated Visual Web Developer tool Requiring no previous Visual Basic or C# experience, the author walks complete beginners through ASP.NET 2 basics, from working with objects, building user interfaces, and killing bugs to accessing databases and handling user input The CD-ROM includes all code and bonus content

Author Biography

Bill Hatfield is the best-selling author of numerous computer books, including Active Server Pages For Dummies, Creating Cool VBScript Web Pages, and Windows XP in 10 Easy Steps or Less (all from Wiley). He is also the editor of Visual Studio .NET Developer, a monthly technical journal from Pinnacle Publishing. He’s a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and Co-Founder of the Indianapolis .NET Developers Association. He works as a corporate instructor for New Horizons in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he also loves to spend time with his family.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(1)
I Know Who You Are
1(1)
About This Book
2(1)
About ASP.NET 2.0
2(1)
How This Book Is Organized
2(4)
Part I: Getting Started
3(1)
Part II: Introducing ASP.NET 2.0
3(1)
Part III: Speaking the Language
3(1)
Part IV: Classy Objects and Methodical Properties
3(1)
Part V: Creating Interactive Web Applications
4(1)
Part VI: Casting a Wider ASP.NET 2.0
4(1)
Part VII: Tapping the Database
4(1)
Part VIII: Exploring New ASP.NET 2.0 Features
5(1)
Part IX: The Part of Tens
5(1)
Appendix
5(1)
Napoleon Bonus Part (Get It?) --- On the CD
6(1)
Conventions Used In This Book
6(1)
Icons Used In This Book
7(1)
Where to Go from Here
8(1)
ASP Me, I Might Answer
9(1)
Help! It Doesn't Work!
10(1)
Part I: Getting Started
11(20)
ASP.NET 2.0 --- Just Do It!
13(12)
Do I Need a Development Environment?
13(1)
Everything You Need to Get Started
14(2)
Watch Your Language!
16(1)
Understanding the Development and Testing Process
16(2)
Choosing an ASP.NET Web server
16(1)
Understanding where IIS looks for your pages
17(1)
Saving your page with the .aspx extension
17(1)
Testing your pages
18(1)
Getting Your ASP in Gear: Creating an ASP.NET Page
18(2)
Understanding How This Example Works
20(2)
Modifying, Retesting, and Creating Pages
22(3)
Modifying and retesting pages
22(1)
Creating new pages
23(1)
Converting HTML pages to ASP.NET pages
23(2)
Putting ASP.NET 2.0 in Its Place
25(6)
Understanding Simple, Static HTML
25(1)
Exploring How JavaScript Makes Your Pages More Interactive
26(1)
So How Does ASP.NET Work? How is it Different?
27(2)
The ASP.NET advantage --- faster, simpler, smaller
28(1)
And now, presenting ASP.NET 2.0
29(1)
The Bigger Picture: The .NET Framework
29(2)
Part II: Introducing ASP.NET 2.0
31(26)
Exciting New ASP.NET 2.0 Features
33(6)
Discovering the Big, New Features
33(2)
Being the master of your domain with the Master Pages feature
34(1)
Using themes and skins
34(1)
Parts is Web Parts
35(1)
Exploring the Faster, Better Features
35(3)
Dancing with the database
36(1)
New server controls make your user interface sing!
36(1)
Increased security that doesn't require you to remove your shoes
37(1)
ASP.NET 2.0: The configurator!
37(1)
Navigating the Choppy Seas of Your Web Site
38(1)
Introducing Visual Web Developer 2005 Express
39(18)
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express: What Is It (Besides a Mouthful)?
39(1)
Accessing Resources from the Start Page
40(1)
Creating a New Web Site
41(3)
Choosing a template
42(1)
Selecting the location and language
43(1)
Getting to Know Your Workspace
44(3)
The Toolbox window
44(1)
The Document window
45(1)
The Solution Explorer window
46(1)
The Properties window
46(1)
The Task window
47(1)
Adding Pages to Your Site
47(1)
Creating Your User Interface with Server Controls
48(3)
Adding server controls
48(1)
Setting control properties
49(2)
Writing Code in Response to Events
51(1)
Debugging, Compiling, and Running Your Web Application
52(2)
Using VWDE to Run the Examples in This Book
54(1)
Single-File Versus Code-Behind Pages
55(2)
Part III: Speaking the Language
57(56)
Juggling Information and Firing Off Functions
59(16)
Getting Started with Programming
60(1)
What is a programming language?
60(1)
Compiling and running a program
60(1)
Looking at the ASP.NET Process
61(1)
Understanding Web Applications
61(1)
Keeping Your Tags and Code Apart with Delimiters
62(1)
Using the ASP.NET Page Directive
63(1)
Creating and Using Variables
63(7)
Creating variables
63(2)
Displaying variable values
65(1)
Can you use a variable you didn't declare?
66(1)
Vee have VAYS of making you declare
67(1)
She's not my data type
67(2)
Don't string me along
69(1)
Giving a variable a value when you create it
70(1)
Controlling Cantankerous Constants
70(1)
Keeping Your Comments to Yourself
71(1)
Understanding How Functions Function
72(3)
Getting a date
72(1)
Let the arguments commence!
73(2)
Asking Questions and Jumping Through Loops
75(24)
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Using If...Then
75(10)
IF you want cool Web pages, THEN use conditionals
76(2)
Using Boolean variables with conditions
78(1)
Accepting inequalities as a fact of life
79(1)
Creating a compound If...Then
80(1)
Lies! All lies! Or, what to do if the condition isn't true
81(1)
Handling multiple conditions
82(2)
Developing your nesting instincts
84(1)
Get off My Case!
85(3)
Counselor, present your case
86(1)
Cracking a tougher case . . .
87(1)
Loop the Loop
88(8)
Counting with For...Next
89(1)
Watching where you Step
90(1)
Nesting loops
91(2)
Doobee-Doobee-Do...Loop
93(2)
Exit, stage left
95(1)
Before you Continue
96(1)
Juggling Information with Arrays
96(3)
Creating and using arrays
96(2)
Using For Each...Next with arrays
98(1)
Divide and Conquer: Structured Programming
99(14)
Simplifying Your Life: Structured Programming and Functions
100(1)
Giving Your Functions a Place to Live: The Script Tag
100(1)
Creating Functions
101(1)
Calling Functions
102(2)
Opening Arguments
104(2)
Functions in All Shapes and Sizes
106(1)
Creating and Using Subroutines
107(1)
Making a Quick Exit
108(1)
Oh, the Places Your Variables Will Go!
108(5)
Three kinds of variables
108(2)
Two places you can use variables
110(1)
Understanding how scope impacts your ASP.NET pages
110(3)
Part IV: Classy Objects and Methodical Properties
113(26)
OOPs --- No Mistake Here!
115(12)
Looking at a Real-World Example: My Car
116(1)
Programming Objects
117(1)
Creating a Class
118(1)
Using the Class to Make an Object
119(1)
Using the Properties and Methods in an Object
120(1)
Creating Multiple Instances
120(2)
Get Out! This Is Private Property
122(2)
Objects inside Objects inside
124(1)
Why OOP? Answer: The .NET Framework Class Libraries
125(2)
Cool Stuff You Can Do with ASP.NET 2.0 Objects
127(12)
ArrayList: The Super, Handy-Dandy, Array-Type Thingy
127(4)
Working over your friends
128(1)
Exploring additional ArrayList features
129(2)
Using Automatically Created Objects
131(1)
The Input and Output Objects: Request and Response
131(4)
Scribbling with Response.Write
131(1)
Sending the user to another page with Response.Redirect
132(1)
Going long for the pass with Request.QueryString
132(3)
The Application and Session Objects: More Variable Scope Options
135(4)
The application versus the session
135(1)
It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's a super-global Session variable!
136(1)
Using even-more-super Application variables
136(2)
Understanding the difference between session-level and application-level variables
138(1)
Part V: Creating Interactive Web Applications
139(102)
Interfacing with Your Users
141(10)
Examining Web Forms and Server Controls
141(6)
Creating a simple form
142(2)
Capturing events and changing properties
144(3)
Manipulating Server Control Properties
147(4)
Changing properties in code and in the tag
147(1)
Using enumeration properties to assign values
148(1)
Using enumeration object methods
149(1)
Working with subobject properties
149(2)
Turning the Page
151(14)
Page Me!
151(6)
The problem: Initializing controls with a function
152(1)
The solution: Using the Page_Load event
153(1)
Page_Load: Is it triggered the first time or every time?
154(3)
Making Your Head Spin with Server Round-Trips
157(8)
A puzzling example: The no-count counter
157(2)
Discovering the answer to the mystery
159(1)
ViewState to the rescue
159(2)
An easier way to store and retrieve page variables in ViewState
161(4)
Basic Server Controls: Labels, Text Boxes, and Buttons
165(14)
Don't Label Me!
165(6)
Adding a splash of color
165(2)
Settling a border dispute
167(1)
Finding the font of youth
168(2)
Sizing up your label with the Height and Width properties
170(1)
ToolTip: Don't run with scissors
170(1)
The Enabled and Visible properties
171(1)
Shadowboxing? No, Text Boxing!
171(6)
He's only half illiterate --- He's ReadOnly
171(1)
Put Tablndex A in SlotIndex B
172(1)
The many faces of the TextMode property
172(2)
The TextBox's TextChanged event and AutoPostBack property
174(3)
Button, Button --- Who's Got the Button?
177(2)
Making a List Control (And Checking It Twice)
179(28)
Checking for Check Boxes
179(11)
A CheckBoxList example: Know your primes
180(3)
Responding to the user's answer
183(1)
Using common CheckBoxList properties
184(4)
The CheckBox control
188(1)
Using common CheckBox properties
189(1)
Radio for Help on Radio Buttons
190(5)
A RadioButtonList example: More gazillionaire trivia
191(2)
A RadioButton example: Notification options
193(1)
Using common RadioButtonList and RadioButton properties
194(1)
Your Kiss Is on My ListBox
195(9)
A ListBox example: The Personalize Your PC page
195(3)
Using common ListBox properties
198(1)
Using common ListBox.Items methods
199(2)
An Add/Remove/Clear example: The Grocery List page
201(2)
Searching the grocery list with FindByText
203(1)
Dropping In on the DropDownList
204(3)
A DropDownList example: Site navigation
204(2)
Using common DropDownList properties and methods
206(1)
More User Interface Goodies (And How to Make Your Own!)
207(22)
A Few Image, Link, and Button Controls
207(8)
Your image consultant
208(1)
Click me, I'm beautiful: ImageButton
209(2)
A button disguised as a link: LinkButton
211(2)
Handling the hysterical HyperLink
213(2)
Marking Time with the Calendar Control
215(5)
A Calendar example: Unborn Baby Age Calculator
215(2)
Using common Calendar members
217(3)
Doing It Yourself: User Controls
220(9)
Creating a reusable page header
220(2)
Using the page header
222(1)
Rolling your own dice
223(3)
Yacht. See?
226(3)
Getting It Right: Validating User Input
229(12)
Putting RequiredFieldValidator to Work
230(2)
Using RequiredFieldValidator with a text box
230(1)
Using RequiredFieldValidator with a drop-down list
231(1)
Using CompareValidator
232(3)
Comparing with a value
232(2)
Comparing with another control
234(1)
Keeping the User in Range with RangeValidator
235(1)
Checking the range with two values
235(1)
Checking the range with other controls
236(1)
Displaying the Results with ValidationSummary
236(4)
Using Page.IsValid to ensure that all is well
239(1)
Using the ValidationSummary to clean up the page
239(1)
Client Versus Server Validation
240(1)
I Want More!
240(1)
Part VI: Casting a Wider ASP.NET
241(36)
Variable Data Types: Preaching to the Converted
243(10)
Meeting the Elementary Data Types
243(4)
Storing whole numbers
244(1)
Storing numbers with a decimal point
244(1)
Storing values other than numbers
245(2)
Using Automatic and Explicit Type Conversion
247(2)
Amassing Your Conversion Function Arsenal
249(2)
Standard conversion functions
249(1)
The CType conversion function
250(1)
Using the Int, Val, and Str conversion functions
251(1)
Be Strict: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Programmer
251(2)
My, What Big Namespaces You Have, Mr. Framework
253(8)
The Great Organizer: Namespaces
253(1)
Sending E-Mail from Your ASP.NET 2.0 Page
254(1)
Finding Your Way through the Forest of Namespaces
255(2)
ASP.NET 2.0 --- It's in There!
257(1)
My Keyword! You Can't Have Any . . .
257(4)
Creating and deleting files
258(1)
Copying and moving files
259(2)
Real-World Web Application Issues
261(16)
What's a Web Application?
261(1)
Creating a Virtual Folder for Your Web Application
262(2)
The Global.asax File
264(3)
Application and Session object events
265(2)
Global directives: @ Import
267(1)
The Configuration File
267(10)
The machine.config versus web.config
267(1)
How does XML work?
268(1)
The web.config file
269(4)
Another way to change your configuration
273(1)
Storing your application settings in the web.config file
274(3)
Part VII: Tapping the Database
277(50)
Accessing a Database with Simple Queries
279(16)
Building Classy Classifieds 1.0: AllAds.aspx
279(1)
The Import of Database Access Libraries
280(1)
Cool Database-Access Server Controls
281(1)
Getting Ready to Access the Database
282(2)
Getting the database
282(1)
Creating a home for your application
283(1)
Web.config and the connectionStrings
283(1)
Retrieving and Displaying Data
284(11)
The SqlDataSource control and its properties
286(1)
The GridView control and its properties
287(1)
Identifying the columns to display
287(2)
Using GridView beautification properties
289(1)
Sorting out the grid
290(2)
Paging Dr. GridView
292(3)
Using Sophisticated Queries and Updating the Database
295(32)
Using Select Parameters to Narrow Your Query
296(9)
There's no place like home
296(1)
Using the QueryStringParameter
297(4)
Using the ControlParameter tag
301(4)
Using DetailsView
305(3)
Binding in New Ways: Alternatives to BoundField
308(3)
Retrieving and Working with Data from Code
311(3)
Allowing the User to Update the Database
314(1)
Letting the User Insert a New Row
315(5)
Allowing the User to Edit or Delete a Selected Row
320(7)
Part VIII: Exploring New ASP.NET 2.0 Features
327(50)
Mastering Master Pages
329(6)
Getting to Know Master Pages and Content Pages
329(2)
Making Your Master Page
331(1)
The Content Page: Jack of All Trades, Master of None
332(1)
Running and Testing Your Pages
333(1)
No Content Page Can Serve Two Masters
334(1)
Security: The Basics
335(12)
ASP.NET TipVault: For Registered Users Only!
335(1)
Creating the Folder, Application, and web.config
336(4)
Authentication
338(1)
Authorization
339(1)
The automatically created authorization database
339(1)
Creating the Public Welcome Page
340(1)
Registration, Please!
341(2)
Whooo Are You? Whooo, Whooo
343(1)
Enforcing Security on Private Content
344(1)
Putting a Sniffer's Nose out of Joint with SSL
345(1)
More --- MUCH More
345(2)
Themes and Skins
347(10)
Do You See a Theme Here?
347(3)
Creating a theme
348(1)
Using a theme
349(1)
Beauty Really Is Skin Deep
350(5)
Creating skins
351(1)
Using skins
352(1)
Providing alternate skin definitions
353(2)
Applying Global Themes
355(2)
Your Portal to Web Parts and Web Services
357(20)
Taking the MyNewsNow Portal Test Drive
358(2)
Building Your First Web Portal Application
360(5)
Making Web parts out of user controls
361(1)
Managing and zoning the portal page
361(1)
Placing your parts
362(3)
The first run done
365(1)
Getting in the Mode for Customization
365(4)
Adding the mode drop-down list
366(1)
Ready, set, run in Design mode!
367(1)
Customizing parts with the EditorZone
368(1)
Ready, set, run in Edit mode!
368(1)
Exploring more editors, more zones
369(1)
Calling Web Services
370(7)
What's so exciting about Web services?
370(1)
SOAP: Sliding into the next century with Web services
371(1)
Finding Web services
372(1)
Adding a Web reference
373(1)
Creating the quote-of-the-day Web part
374(3)
Part IX: The Part of Tens
377(14)
The Ten Best Places to Get ASP.NET 2.0 Answers
379(8)
RTFM: Read the Flippin' Manual!
379(1)
Visit the Bookstore
380(1)
Review Technical Journals and Magazines
380(1)
Strike Up a Discussion at Online Forums and Newsgroups
381(1)
Browse Blogs by the Brightest and Best
382(2)
Stay Up for Popcorn and a Movie: ASP.NET Webcasts
384(1)
Wander the World Wide Web
384(1)
Call Microsoft Web Technical Support
384(1)
Make Friends with ASP.NET Geeks and Visit Their User Groups
385(1)
Cavort at Conferences
385(2)
Microsoft Tech-Ed
385(1)
Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC)
386(1)
VSLive!
386(1)
ASP.NET Connections
386(1)
Others
386(1)
The Ten Coolest Web Sites for ASP.NET 2.0 Developers
387(4)
It's Official: Microsoft's MSDN ASP.NET Developer Center
387(1)
Microsoft's ASP.NET
388(1)
Microsoft's GotDotNet.com
388(1)
DotNetJunkies.com
388(1)
.netWire
388(1)
Tek-Tips ASP.NET Forum
389(1)
ASP.NET at 4GuysFromRolla
389(1)
developer.com
389(1)
DevX.com
389(1)
ASPAlliance.com
390(1)
Appendix: About the CD
391(8)
System Requirements
391(3)
Using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express' built-in Web server
392(1)
Using IIS on your machine
392(1)
Using IIS on a corporate or hosted machine
393(1)
How do I choose?
393(1)
Using the CD
394(1)
What You Can Find on the CD
395(2)
Napoleon Bonus Part (Get It?)
395(1)
Source code from the book
395(2)
Troubleshooting
397(2)
Index
399
Bonus Part: Napoleon Bonus Part (Get It?)
1(116)
The Cafe Chat Room
3(20)
The Cafe Entrance
4(1)
The Chat Room's Primary Page
4(2)
Brushing Up Before You Start Making Your Own Cafe
6(1)
What Techniques Does the Cafe Demonstrate?
7(1)
The Blueprint for the Cafe
7(3)
Building the Cafe, Brick by Brick
10(1)
Knocking on the Cafe Door: Default.aspx
10(4)
Framing Your Cafe: Cafe.aspx
14(1)
Speaking Your Mind: Say.aspx
14(2)
Sharing in the Conversation: CafeConvo.aspx
16(1)
Getting a Head Count: Users.aspx
17(5)
Improving the Cafe
22(1)
Classy Classifieds
23(24)
Why Classifieds?
24(1)
Classy 1.0 and Classy 2.0
24(1)
Your Classy Home
24(2)
Picking Your Category
26(1)
Devilish Details
27(1)
Is It Really You?!?
28(1)
Just a Quick Edit --- It Won't Hurt
29(1)
Nice Place
29(1)
Now Where Did I Put That Ad?
30(1)
Before You Start
31(1)
What Techniques Does Classy Demonstrate?
32(1)
Planning to Create Classy Classifieds
32(4)
Getting Ready
36(1)
Beginning with a Masterful Performance
36(1)
Home, Home on the Web: Default.aspx
37(1)
I Categorically Deny It: Category.aspx
38(2)
Delegate the Detail: Detail.aspx
40(2)
Simple Authentication
42(1)
Confirmation Required: Confirm.aspx
43(1)
The Creator: PlaceAd.aspx
44(1)
The Editor: EditAd.aspx
45(1)
Have You Seen This Ad? Search.aspx
45(1)
Making It Better!
46(1)
Collecting Visitor Feedback with the VB 2005 My.Computer.FileSystem
47(10)
Kicking Off the Guestbook
47(1)
Signing In
48(2)
Viewing the Guestbook's Roster
50(2)
Maintaining Your Guestbook
52(5)
More Cool ASP.NET Features and Capabilities
57(20)
There's Nothing Illegal about the HashTable
57(3)
Making Cookies with the System.Web
60(5)
Okay, Mr. Browser, Who Are You and What Can You Do?
65(2)
Asking Nicely with Request Properties
67(1)
Playing with VB 2005 String and Date Functions
68(6)
Doing Higher Math Simply
74(3)
Taking Validation to the Next Level
77(18)
Getting the Formatting Right: RegularExpressionValidator
77(4)
CustomValidator: The Mod Squad Buys Soda
81(5)
Monkeying Around with Validation Controls from Code
86(2)
Summing Up Validation Controls and Their Properties
88(7)
ASP.NET 2.0 for Classic ASP Developers
95(18)
To Migrate or Not to Migrate
96(1)
The Overview: What's New?
96(1)
Going Over the Sequence of Events
97(1)
Setting Up Your Page Structure
97(2)
Making User Interaction Easy
99(1)
Changing Your Language
100(5)
Going to the .NET Framework Class Library to find ASP Objects
105(1)
Configuring Your Applications
105(1)
Classic ASP Developer's Road Map to This Book
106(7)
A Crash Course in Database Basics
113(4)
What's a DBMS? What's a Database?
113(2)
Filing Your Database Info in Tables, Rows, and Columns
115(1)
Putting Primary Keys and Surrogate Keys to Work
115(1)
Giving Your Tables Healthy Relationships
116(1)
Understanding the SQL SELECT Statement
117

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