Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 / Dino Esposito.

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Version 2.0 of Microsoft ASP.NET will be a major upgrade and this guide offers an early, detailed look at exactly what's changing in this powerful tool.

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• Acknowledgments (p. xi)
• Introduction (p. xiii)
• Part I ASP.NET Essentials
• 1 Creating an ASP.NET 2.0 Application (p. 3)
• Getting Started with Visual Studio 2005 (p. 4)
• Drawbacks of Visual Studio .NET 2003 (p. 4)
• Highlights of Visual Studio 2005 (p. 5)
• Creating a Sample Web Site (p. 8)
• Designing Web Forms (p. 10)
• Adding Code to Web Forms (p. 11)
• The Local Web Server (p. 12)
• Special Folders in ASP.NET 2.0 Applications (p. 13)
• The Code-Beside Model (p. 14)
• Evolving from Code-Behind (p. 14)
• Compile-on-Demand for All Resources (p. 15)
• Sharing Source Components (p. 17)
• The Page Object Model (p. 19)
• What's New in the Page Class (p. 20)
• Programming the Page (p. 27)
• The Page Scripting Object Model (p. 31)
• Overview of Server Controls (p. 35)
• New Control Features (p. 36)
• New Core Controls (p. 38)
• Summary (p. 43)
• 2 Working with Master Pages (p. 45)
• The Rationale Behind Master Pages (p. 45)
• User Controls in ASP.NET 1.x (p. 46)
• Include Files in Classic ASP (p. 47)
• Outline of a Better Approach (p. 48)
• What Are Master Pages? (p. 50)
• Writing a Master Page (p. 51)
• Writing a Content Page (p. 55)
• Underpinnings of Master Pages (p. 58)
• Merging Master and Content Pages (p. 58)
• Nested Masters (p. 60)
• Event Handling (p. 64)
• A Realistic Example (p. 66)
• Master Pages and Visual Inheritance (p. 66)
• Layout of the Pages (p. 68)
• Contents of the Pages (p. 70)
• Programming the Master (p. 72)
• Summary (p. 75)
• 3 Working with Web Parts (p. 77)
• Building Pages with Web Parts (p. 77)
• What Are Web Parts, Anyway? (p. 78)
• Introducing the Web Parts Framework (p. 79)
• A Sample Web Part Component (p. 85)
• Editing and Listing Web Parts (p. 94)
• Creating an Editor Zone (p. 94)
• Adding Web Parts Dynamically (p. 96)
• Connecting to Other Web Parts (p. 99)
• The Connection Model (p. 99)
• Building a Master/Detail Schema (p. 101)
• Summary (p. 106)
• 4 Personalization: User Profiles and Themes (p. 107)
• Managing User Profiles (p. 108)
• Creating the User Profile (p. 108)
• Personalization Providers (p. 112)
• Interacting with the Page (p. 116)
• Using Themes (p. 122)
• What Are Themes? (p. 122)
• Working with Themes (p. 124)
• Summary (p. 127)
• Part II Data Access
• 5 What's New in Data Access (p. 131)
• Data-Binding Syntax Enhancements (p. 132)
• The DataBinder Class (p. 132)
• The XPathBinder Class (p. 135)
• .NET Data Provider Enhancements (p. 136)
• Connection String Storage (p. 136)
• The Provider Factory Model (p. 140)
• Batch Operations (p. 144)
• SQL Server Provider Enhancements (p. 145)
• Asynchronous Commands (p. 146)
• Bulk Copy Operations (p. 149)
• SQL Server 2005-Specific Enhancements (p. 153)
• ADO.NET Class Enhancements (p. 157)
• DataTable and DataSet Readers (p. 157)
• Serializing a DataTable to XML (p. 159)
• Managing Views of Data (p. 162)
• Summary (p. 164)
• 6 The Data Source Object Model (p. 165)
• The Rationale Behind Data Source Components (p. 166)
• Codeless Data Binding (p. 166)
• A Consistent Model for Heterogeneous Data Sources (p. 170)
• A Richer Design-Time Experience (p. 172)
• Data Source Control Internals (p. 172)
• The IDataSource Interface (p. 173)
• Tabular Data Source Controls (p. 175)
• Hierarchical Data Source Controls (p. 182)
• Using the SqlDataSource Control (p. 187)
• Connecting to Data Source Controls (p. 187)
• Data Source Parameters (p. 188)
• Caching Behavior (p. 191)
• Summary (p. 193)
• 7 Data-Bound Controls (p. 195)
• Hierarchy of Data-Bound Controls (p. 195)
• The DataBoundControl Base Class (p. 198)
• Simple Data-Bound Controls (p. 199)
• Composite Data-Bound Controls (p. 202)
• Hierarchical Data-Bound Controls (p. 205)
• The GridView Control (p. 207)
• The GridView Object Model (p. 208)
• The GridView Control in Action (p. 214)
• Displaying Data (p. 216)
• Editing Data (p. 225)
• The DetailsView Control (p. 230)
• The DetailsView Object Model (p. 230)
• The DetailsView Control in Action (p. 235)
• Creating Master/Detail Views (p. 239)
• The FormView Control (p. 241)
• The FormView Object Model (p. 242)
• The FormView in Action (p. 243)
• Summary (p. 248)
• Part III Application Services
• 8 Rich Controls and Services (p. 251)
• Creating Web Wizards (p. 251)
• An Overview of the Wizard Control (p. 252)
• Adding Steps to a Wizard (p. 258)
• Navigating Through the Wizard (p. 261)
• Generating Dynamic Images (p. 264)
• The DynamicImage Control (p. 265)
• Displaying Images in ASP.NET Pages (p. 268)
• Advanced Site Functionality (p. 273)
• Site Structure and Navigation (p. 273)
• Site Counters (p. 279)
• Summary (p. 284)
• 9 State Management (p. 287)
• The Control State (p. 288)
• Control State vs. View State (p. 288)
• Programming the Control State (p. 289)
• Extending the Session State Mechanism (p. 291)
• The Default Session State Module (p. 292)
• Customizing the Session State Module (p. 294)
• Writing a Custom Session State Module (p. 299)
• The ASP.NET Cache Object (p. 300)
• The Cache Dependency Functionality (p. 301)
• Designing a Custom Dependency (p. 303)
• A Web Service--Based Cache Dependency (p. 305)
• SQL Server Cache Dependency (p. 309)
• Summary (p. 313)
• 10 ASP.NET Security (p. 315)
• Using Forms Authentication (p. 316)
• Forms Authentication Control Flow (p. 317)
• Cookie-Based Forms Authentication in ASP.NET 1.x (p. 317)
• A Cookieless Approach in ASP.NET 2.0 (p. 318)
• Configuring Forms Authentication (p. 318)
• The FormsAuthentication Class (p. 320)
• Managing Membership and Roles (p. 326)
• The Membership Class (p. 326)
• The Membership Provider (p. 331)
• Managing Roles (p. 336)
• Security-Related Controls (p. 341)
• The Login Control (p. 341)
• The LoginName Control (p. 345)
• The LoginStatus Control (p. 346)
• The LoginView Control (p. 348)
• The PasswordRecovery Control (p. 350)
• The ChangePassword Control (p. 351)
• The CreateUserWizard Control (p. 352)
• Summary (p. 353)
• Part IV Advanced Topics
• 11 The ASP.NET Runtime Environment (p. 357)
• Installing ASP.NET 2.0 (p. 358)
• Side-By-Side Backward Compatibility (p. 358)
• Remapping Applications to ASP.NET 1.1 (p. 358)
• The ASP.NET Underpinnings (p. 359)
• The IIS 5.x Process Model (p. 360)
• The IIS 6.0 Process Model (p. 361)
• The WebHost Application Management System (p. 362)
• ASP.NET Runtime Components (p. 366)
• Page Output Caching (p. 373)
• The Structure of ASP.NET 2.0 Pages (p. 377)
• A Sample Page (p. 377)
• A Quick Look at the HTML Source Code (p. 378)
• The Compilation Model (p. 379)
• Dynamic Compilation (p. 379)
• Site Precompilation (p. 382)
• Summary (p. 385)
• 12 ASP.NET Configuration and Instrumentation (p. 387)
• Changes to the Configuration API (p. 388)
• Section-Specific Classes (p. 388)
• Reading Configuration Settings (p. 390)
• Writing Configuration Settings (p. 391)
• The ASP.NET Administrative Tool (p. 391)
• Changes to the Configuration Schema (p. 392)
• Changed Configuration Sections (p. 392)
• New Configuration Sections (p. 393)
• The Health Monitoring API (p. 394)
• Customizable Event-Level Analysis (p. 395)
• Automated Notification of Problems (p. 396)
• Summary (p. 396)
• Index (p. 399)

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