this print for content only—size & color not accurate spine = 2.203" 1,288 page count BOOKS FOR PROFESSIONALS BY PROFESSIONALS ® Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005 Dear Reader, As you know, ASP.NET is Microsoft’s premier technology for creating server-side web applications. In fact, ASP.NET 1.0 was a revolution in the web programming world. It was so wildly popular that it was licensed on thousands of commercial web servers while it was still a beta product. ASP.NET 2.0 is the next major milestone in web development. ASP.NET 2.0 keeps the same technical underpinning as ASP.NET 1.x but adds layers and layers of higher-level features. These features include a streamlined data binding model, an out-of-the-box security framework, tools for building dynamic web portals, and a slew of powerful new web controls. In this book, you’ll learn how ASP.NET 2.0 really works. You won’t be bored with a rehash of the C# language—instead, you’ll get the hard-won practical advice that you need to build sophisticated, scalable websites. You’ll also dig into advanced topics that other ASP.NET books avoid, such as creating custom controls, handling images, and enabling encryption. New features are clearly identified, so if you’ve programmed with a previous version of ASP.NET you’ll sail through the basics and get right to the most important changes and enhancements. In short, this is the book to read if you’re a professional developer moving to ASP.NET 2.0. Welcome aboard! 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The source code for this book is available to readers at http://www.apress.com in the Source Code section. 4967FM.qxd 10/19/05 4:48 PM Page ii www.it-ebooks.info 4967FM.qxd 8/16/05 1:14 PM Page iii www.it-ebooks.info Contents at a Glance About the Revising Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv About the Technical Reviewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix PART 1 ■ ■ ■ Core Concepts ■CHAPTER 1 Introducing ASP.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ■CHAPTER 2 Visual Studio 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 ■CHAPTER 3 Web Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 ■CHAPTER 4 Server Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 ■CHAPTER 5 ASP.NET Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 ■CHAPTER 6 State Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 PART 2 ■ ■ ■ Data Access ■CHAPTER 7 ADO.NET Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 ■CHAPTER 8 Data Components and the DataSet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 ■CHAPTER 9 Data Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 ■CHAPTER 10 Rich Data Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 ■CHAPTER 11 Caching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 ■CHAPTER 12 XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 ■CHAPTER 13 Files and Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471 PART 3 ■ ■ ■ Building ASP.NET Websites ■CHAPTER 14 User Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505 ■CHAPTER 15 Themes and Master Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525 ■CHAPTER 16 Website Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555 ■CHAPTER 17 Resources and Localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599 ■CHAPTER 18 Website Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619 iv 4967FM.qxd 8/16/05 1:14 PM Page iv www.it-ebooks.info PART 4 ■ ■ ■ Security ■CHAPTER 19 The ASP.NET Security Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667 ■CHAPTER 20 Forms Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689 ■CHAPTER 21 Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709 ■CHAPTER 22 Windows Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751 ■CHAPTER 23 Authorization and Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777 ■CHAPTER 24 Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803 ■CHAPTER 25 Cryptography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839 ■CHAPTER 26 Custom Membership Providers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867 PART 5 ■ ■ ■ Advanced User Interface ■CHAPTER 27 Custom Server Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899 ■CHAPTER 28 Design-Time Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941 ■CHAPTER 29 JavaScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975 ■CHAPTER 30 Dynamic Graphics and GDI+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1011 ■CHAPTER 31 Portals with Web Part Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043 PART 6 ■ ■ ■ Web Services ■CHAPTER 32 Creating Web Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1087 ■CHAPTER 33 Web Service Standards and Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129 ■CHAPTER 34 Advanced Web Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175 ■INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1211 v 4967FM.qxd 8/16/05 1:14 PM Page v www.it-ebooks.info 4967FM.qxd 8/16/05 1:14 PM Page vi www.it-ebooks.info Contents About the Revising Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv About the Technical Reviewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix PART 1 ■ ■ ■ Core Concepts ■CHAPTER 1 Introducing ASP.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Evolution of Web Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Development World Before ASP.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 What’s Wrong with Classic ASP? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 ASP.NET 1.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Seven Important Facts About ASP.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Fact 1: ASP.NET Is Integrated with the .NET Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Fact 2: ASP.NET Is Compiled, Not Interpreted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Fact 3: ASP.NET Is Multilanguage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Fact 4: ASP.NET Runs Inside the Common Language Runtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Fact 5: ASP.NET Is Object-Oriented . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Fact 6: ASP.NET Is Multidevice and Multibrowser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Fact 7: ASP.NET Is Easy to Deploy and Configure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 ASP.NET 2.0: The Story Continues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 C# 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Visual Studio 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 ASP.NET 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 ■CHAPTER 2 Visual Studio 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 The .NET Development Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Compiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Visual Studio IDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Websites in Visual Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Projectless Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Migrating a Visual Studio .NET Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Designing a Web Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 The Visual Studio IDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Solution Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Document Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 vii 4967FM.qxd 8/16/05 1:14 PM Page vii www.it-ebooks.info Error List and Task List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Server Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 The Code Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Adding Assembly References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 IntelliSense and Outlining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 The Coding Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 How Code-Behind Files Are Connected to Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 How Control Tags Are Connected to Page Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 How Events Are Connected to Event Handlers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Visual Studio Debugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Single-Step Debugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Advanced Breakpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Variable Watches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Visual Studio Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 ASP.NET Development Helper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 ■CHAPTER 3 Web Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Page Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 HTML Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Dynamic Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 The ASP.NET Event Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Automatic Postbacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 View State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 XHTML Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Web Forms Processing Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Page Framework Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 User Code Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Event Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Automatic Data Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Cleanup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 A Page Flow Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 The Page As a Control Container . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Showing the Control Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 The Page Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Dynamic Control Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 The Page Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Session, Application, and Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Accessing the HTTP Context in Another Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 ■CONTENTSviii 4967FM.qxd 8/16/05 1:14 PM Page viii www.it-ebooks.info ■CHAPTER 4 Server Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Types of Server Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 The Server Control Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 HTML Server Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 The HtmlControl Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 The HtmlContainerControl Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 The HtmlInputControl Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 The HTML Server Control Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Setting Style Attributes and Other Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Programmatically Creating Server Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Handling Server-Side Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Web Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 The WebControl Base Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Basic Web Control Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Enumerated Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 The Default Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Scrollable Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Handling Web Control Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 The List Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 The Selectable List Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 The BulletedList Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Input Validation Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 The Validation Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 The Validation Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 The BaseValidator Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 The RequiredFieldValidator Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 The RangeValidator Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 The CompareValidator Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 The RegularExpressionValidator Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 The CustomValidator Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 The ValidationSummary Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Using the Validators Programmatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Validation Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 The ASP.NET Rich Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 The AdRotator Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 The Calendar Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 ■CHAPTER 5 ASP.NET Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Anatomy of an ASP.NET Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 The Application Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Application Lifetime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 ■CONTENTS ix 4967FM.qxd 8/16/05 1:14 PM Page ix www.it-ebooks.info [...]... released late in 2003, solidifying ASP.NET as the web development platform of choice for professional developers Two long years later, ASP.NET 2.0 finally appeared on the horizon Unlike the ASP.NET 1.0 release, ASP.NET 2.0 doesn’t represent the start of a new direction in web development In fact, almost all the underlying architecture that underpins ASP.NET 1.0 remains the same in ASP.NET 2.0 The difference... tools for inserting dynamic content into , ordinary web pages By contrast, ASP.NET is a full-blown platform for developing comprehensive, blisteringly fast web applications In this book, you’ll learn everything you need to master ASP NET 2.0 If you’ve programmed with a previous version of ASP.NET, you’ll sail through the basics and quickly begin learning about the exciting new features in version 2.0 If... Page xx ■CONTENTS Using the SqlProfileProvider 806 Creating the Profile Tables 807 Configuring the Provider 809 Defining Profile Properties 810 Using Profile Properties 811 Profile Serialization... same in ASP.NET 2.0 The difference is that ASP.NET 2.0 adds layers of higher-level features to the existing technology Essentially, after the success of ASP.NET 1.0, Microsoft poured developers, time, and resources into planning and preparing ASP.NET 2.0 Seeing as they no longer needed to rewrite the ASP.NET engine, the ASP.NET team members were free to be innovative with new controls, create better... xxxi ■INTRODUCTION Who Is This Book For? This book is intended as a primer for professional developers who have a reasonable knowledge of server-side web development This book doesn’t provide an exhaustive look at every ingredient in the NET Framework in fact, such a book would require twice as many pages Instead, this book aims to provide a lean, intelligent introduction to ASP.NET for professional programmers... about NET fundamentals before you read this one Try C# and the NET 2.0 Platform, Third Edition (Apress, 2005) for a comprehensive introduction or, for a quicker start, read A Programmer’s Introduction to C# 2.0, Third Edition (Apress, 2005) ASP.NET from 1.0 to 2.0 As you no doubt already know, ASP.NET is Microsoft’s next-generation technology for creating server-side web applications It’s built on the... 828 Custom Profiles Providers 829 The Custom Profiles Provider Classes 829 Designing the FactoredProfileProvider 831 Coding the FactoredProfileProvider 832 Testing the FactoredProfileProvider 836... (http://www.intensitysoftware.com), which specializes in Microsoft NET consulting services In addition to consulting services, Intensity offers Kicks for NET, a CICS-to -ASP.NET migration utility that automates the migration process while maintaining the existing business logic’s source code Robert was one of the developers who created the original IBuySpy Store and Portal demo applications as well as the NetCOBOL... MCSD developer He’s a regular contributor to programming journals and the author of more than a dozen books about NET programming, including ASP NET: The Complete Reference (Osborne McGraw-Hill, 2002), Programming NET Web Services (O’Reilly, 2002), Beginning ASP NET in C (Apress, 2004), and Microsoft NET Distributed Applications (Microsoft Press, 2003) In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English... trainings, and proof-of-concept projects with independent software vendors in Austria based on NET web services and Office 2003 technologies xxv www.it-ebooks.info 4967FM.qxd 8/16/05 1:14 PM Page xxvi www.it-ebooks.info 4967FM.qxd 8/16/05 1:14 PM Page xxvii About the Technical Reviewers ■ROBERT LAIR is the president and CEO of Intensity Software (http://www.intensitysoftware.com), which specializes in . .NET Remoting, Second Edition (coauthor) THE APRESS ROADMAP Pro ASP. NET 2. 0 in C# 20 05 Pro C# 20 05 and the .NET 2. 0 Platform Beginning ASP. NET 2. 0 in C#. 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