Professional ASP.NET 3.5 : in C# and VB Paperback

This book was written to introduce you to the features and capabilities that ASP.NET 3.5 offers, as well as to give you an explanation of the foundation that ASP.NET provides.

We assume you have a general understanding of Web technologies, such as previous versions of ASP.NET, Active Server Pages 2.0/3.0, or JavaServer Pages.

We also assume you understand basic programming constructs, such as variables, For Each loops, and object-oriented programming.

When the code differs substantially, this book provides examples in both VB and C#.

Coverage includes: ASP.NET folders and files, compiling code, and cross-page postingUsing the available server controlsMaster pages, themes, and skinshow to present data with ASP.NET controlsWorking with LINQ, ADO.NET, and XMLhosting and working with your ASP.NET applications in IIS 7Using and extending the extensible provider modelthe site navigation systemstoring user information with the personalization systemmembership and role management system for adding authentication and authorization to applications using web.configencapsulating pages into smaller and more manageable objects with Web Partsworking with HTML and CSS designUsing the theXMLHttpRequest object to build AJAX-enabled applicationsthe ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit simplify AJAX web developmentauthentication, authorization, and HTTP access types and impersonationsstate management and performance of requests and responsesadvanced caching capabilities including SQL cache invalidationerror handling and debugging techniquesworking with file types and streamsbuilding and using server controlsmanipulating HTTP requests with HttpModule and HttpHandler.Building and consuming XML Web services and SOAPInternationalization, configuration, instrumentation, performance, application tracing, health monitoring, administration, Management, packaging, deploying