ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook
Developer's Notebooks try to communicate different information than most books, and as a result, are organized differently.
ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook
Chapter 1. What's New?
Section 1.1. Create a New Web Project
Section 1.2. Use Multiple Languages
Section 1.3. Set the Focus of Controls
Section 1.4. Define Multiple Validation Groups on a Page
Section 1.5. Insert Client Script into a Page
Section 1.6. Post to Another Page
Section 1.7. Selectively Display Groups of Controls
Section 1.8. Upload Files to Your Web Site
Section 1.9. Create an Image Map
Chapter 2. Master Pages and Site Navigation
Section 2.1. How do I do that?
Section 2.2. Use a Master Page as a Content Page Template
Section 2.3. Modify a Master Page at Runtime
Section 2.4. Create a Site Map for Your Web Site
Section 2.5. Display Hierarchical Data Using the TreeView Control
Section 2.6. Populate a TreeView Control Programmatically
Section 2.7. Display Drop-Down Menus Using the Menu Control
Chapter 3. Web Parts
Section 3.1. How do I do that?
Section 3.2. Create a Personalizable Custom Web Part
Section 3.3. Let Users Move Web Parts
Section 3.4. Let Users Add Web Parts at Runtime
Section 3.5. Let Users Edit Web Parts at Runtime
Section 3.6. Enable Web Parts to Talk to Each Other
Chapter 4. Data Access
Section 4.1. Display Data in a Table
Section 4.2. Sort and View Records on Multiple Pages
Section 4.3. Edit and Delete Records
Section 4.4. Display One Record at a Time
Section 4.5. Cache the Data Source Control
Section 4.6. Cache Using Dependency
Section 4.7. Encrypt Connection Strings
Section 4.8. Connect to a Business Object
Section 4.9. Connect to an XML Document
Chapter 5. Security
Section 5.1. Create a Login Page Using the New Security Controls
Section 5.2. Add Users with WAT
Section 5.3. Restrict Unauthorized Access to Pages
Section 5.4. Recover Passwords for Users
Section 5.5. Let Users Change Passwords
Section 5.6. Create Accounts with CreateUserWizard
Section 5.7. Group Users into Roles
Section 5.8. Manage User Settings
Chapter 6. Performance
Section 6.1. How do I do that?
Section 6.2. Dynamically Generate Web Service Proxy Classes
Section 6.3. Precompile Your Site
Section 6.4. Cache Fragments of a Page
Section 6.5. Lower the Cost of Server Callbacks
Chapter 7. Profiles
Section 7.1. Personalize Your Application
Section 7.2. Authenticate Users with Forms Authentication
Section 7.3. Save Anonymous User Profiles
Section 7.4. Transfer an Anonymous Profile to an Authenticated Profile
Chapter 8. Themes, Skins, and Localization
Section 8.1. Create Themes and Skins
Section 8.2. Apply Themes at Runtime
Section 8.3. Store Themes in User Profiles
Section 8.4. Localize Your Application
When ASP.NET hit the street a couple of years ago, it was a real eye-opener. Microsoft's tool for creating dynamic, server side web applications introduced Web Forms, a feature with the same rapid drag and drop convenience enjoyed by Visual Basic developers, long with a method for creating XML-based web services.
ASP.NET was more than an upgrade of Active Server Pages it was a quantum leap ahead. Now Microsoft has a new version of ASP.NET as part of its upcoming next generation release of the Visual Studio .NET development platform.
ASP.NET 2.0 is already available in beta release, and web developers are anxious to get a good l ook at it. That's exactly what our new Developer's Notebook allows you to do. More than just an introduction to ASP.NET 2.0, this practical guide acquaints you with all of the new features through nearly 50 hands-on projects. Each one places emphasis on changes in the new release that can increase productivity, simplify programming tasks, and help you add functionality to your applications. For example, ASP.NET 2.0 includes master pages, themes, and skins so you can build applications with a consistent page layout and design.
Other changes allow for the automatic creation of web pages for use on mobile devices, while wizards and controls allow you to perform frequent tasks (like data access) without having to write a single line of code. ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook also includes suggestions for further experimentation, links to on-line documentation, and practical notes and warnings from the author regarding changes to the new version. The new Developer's Notebooks series from O'Reilly offers an in-depth first look at important new tools for software developers.
Emphasizing example over explanation and practice over theory, they focus on learning by doing you'll get the goods traight from the masters, in an informal and code-intensive style.
If you want to get up to speed on ASP.NET 2.0 before its official release, this all lab, no lecture book will get you there.