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53 PART II CONTROLS CHAPTER 4 ASP.NET Server Controls and Client-Side Scripts.. 103 CHAPTER 5 ASP.NET Web Server Controls.. 559 PART V ASP.NET FEATURES CHAPTER 16 Working with Maste

PROFESSIONAL ASP.NET 4.5 IN C# AND VB

INTRODUCTION xliii

CHAPTER 1 One ASP.NET 3

CHAPTER 2 HTML5 and CSS3 Design with ASP.NET 17

CHAPTER 3 ASP.NET Web Forms Structure 53

 PART II CONTROLS CHAPTER 4 ASP.NET Server Controls and Client-Side Scripts 103

CHAPTER 5 ASP.NET Web Server Controls 123

CHAPTER 6 Validation Server Controls 199

CHAPTER 7 User and Server Controls 231

 PART III DATA ACCESS CHAPTER 8 Data Binding 299

CHAPTER 9 Model Binding 355

CHAPTER 10 Querying with LINQ 371

CHAPTER 11 Entity Framework 411

CHAPTER 12 ASP.NET Dynamic Data 443

CHAPTER 13 Working with Services 455

 PART IV PROVIDERS CHAPTER 14 Introduction to the Provider Model 529

CHAPTER 15 Extending the Provider Model 559

 PART V ASP.NET FEATURES CHAPTER 16 Working with Master Pages 591

CHAPTER 17 Site Navigation 621

CHAPTER 18 Personalization 671

CHAPTER 19 Membership and Role Management 701

CHAPTER 20 Security 759

Continues

CHAPTER 22 Caching 823

 PART VII CLIENT-SIDE DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 23 ASP.NET AJAX 857

CHAPTER 24 Ajax Control Toolkit 895

CHAPTER 25 jQuery 957

CHAPTER 26 Real-Time Communication 983

CHAPTER 27 Developing Websites with Mobile in Mind 1001

 PART VIII APPLICATION CONFIGURATION AND DEPLOYMENT CHAPTER 28 Confi guration 1027

CHAPTER 29 Debugging and Error Handling 1075

CHAPTER 30 Modules and Handlers 1105

CHAPTER 31 Asynchronous Communication 1121

CHAPTER 32 Building Global Applications 1135

CHAPTER 33 Packaging and Deploying ASP.NET Applications 1163

 PART IX ADDITIONAL ASP.NET TECHNOLOGIES CHAPTER 34 ASP.NET MVC 1187

CHAPTER 35 ASP.NET Web Pages and Razor 1215

 PART X APPENDIXES APPENDIX A Migrating Older ASP.NET Projects 1239

APPENDIX B COM Integration 1247

APPENDIX C ASP.NET Ultimate Tools 1257

APPENDIX D Administration and Management 1269

APPENDIX E Dynamic Types and Languages 1295

APPENDIX F ASP.NET Online Resources 1305

APPENDIX G Visual Studio Extensibility with NuGet 1309

INDEX 1333

ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB

ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB

Jason N Gaylord Christian Wenz Pranav Rastogi Todd Miranda Scott Hanselman

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

JASON N GAYLORD is an application developer and Director of Technology at United One Resources in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania His programming career started with a simple GOTO statement and continued over 15 years of developing Windows and web applications During this time, Jason has had the opportunity to plan, build, test, and deploy several enterprise applications including integrations with accounting and operating systems and B2B web applications used by some of the top banks in the United States

Outside of the normal day to day activities, Jason blogs, speaks, and organizes technology events including TECHbash and NEPA GiveCamp He’s the group leader for the NET Valley technology user group Recently, Jason was recognized as a Microsoft MVP for 10 consecutive years

He remains a member of the ASPInsiders, a group that provides product feedback directly to the ASP.NET team You can fi nd out more about Jason by visiting his website at jasongaylord.com You can follow him

on Twitter at @jgaylord

CHRISTIAN WENZ started working almost exclusively with web technologies in 1993 and has not looked back since As a developer and project manager he has been responsible for websites from medium–sized companies up to large, international enterprises As an author, he has written or co-written over 100 books that have been translated into 10 lan-guages As a consultant, he helped companies and teams of developers to make their appli-cations more reliable, better performing, and more secure Christian frequently writes for various IT magazines, is a sought-after speaker at developer conferences around the world, and is always keen on sharing technologies he is excited about with others He contributes

to various open source projects, is a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and an ASPInsider, and co-author of several developer certifi cations You can follow him on Twitter at @chwenz

PRANAV RASTOGI is a member of the Microsoft ASP.NET product team and is based in Seattle Over the past years, Pranav has worked on a variety of areas such as ASP.NET Web Forms, Dynamic Data, and more recently ASP.NET SignalR He is passionate about understanding web developer woes with the Microsoft stack and helps champion tools, packages, or libraries that will enhance the web development experience on the Microsoft stack Pranav is also a regular speaker on a variety of ASP.NET related topics at various worldwide conferences He blogs about his experiences at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/

pranav_rastogi/ Before joining Microsoft, Pranav graduated from the University Of Florida with a masters in Computer Science  

Pranav is also a food junkie who sometimes works as a Chef de Cuisine at home He is an adventure seeker and can be often found backpacking in the wilderness In this spare time Pranav regularly practices his bar-tending skills on his friends If you know anyone who is looking to throw a party and needs a bartender, then get in touch with him You can follow Pranav on Twitter at @rustd

the NET platforms but focuses primarily on ASP.NET He is the owner of NxtDimension Solutions and provides consulting and training on the Microsoft stack As a Microsoft MVP, Todd works closely with Microsoft He is the co-founder of the Birmingham NET User Group and remains active in the development community He has recorded hundreds

of online training videos on Microsoft development topics including security, JavaScript, Silverlight, WPF, Expression, and ASP.NET He is an INETA speaker and regularly presents at user groups, community events, and technical conferences You can follow Todd on Twitter @tmiranda

SCOTT HANSELMAN is a web developer who has been blogging at http://hanselman.com for over a decade He works on Azure and ASP.NET for Microsoft out of his home offi ce in Portland, Oregon Scott has three podcasts, http://hanselminutes.com for tech talk, http://thisdeveloperslife.com on developers’ lives and loves, and http://

ratchetandthegeek.com for pop culture and tech media He’s written a number of books and spoken in person to almost a half million developers worldwide You can follow Scott

on Twitter at @shanselman

ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITORS

KEN COX has been creating web applications with Microsoft technologies since the earliest betas of ASP

Classic in the mid-1990s He has worked on dozens of ASP.NET sites, large and small, and is the author

of ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies published by John Wiley & Sons Ken was honored as a Microsoft Most

Valuable Professional (MVP) for ASP.NET for 15 consecutive years prior to his retirement and remains an

ASPInsider Ken does consulting work from his home in Nipissing Township, Ontario, Canada

BIPIN JOSHI is an independent blogger and author who writes about apparently unrelated topics — yoga

and technology A former software consultant and trainer by profession, Bipin has been programming

since 1995 and has worked with the NET Framework since its inception He is a published author and has

authored or co-authored more than a half dozen books and numerous articles on NET technologies Bipin

was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and a Microsoft Certifi ed Trainer (MCT) during his

tenure as a software consultant and trainer He has also penned a few books on yoga Having embraced the

yoga way of life, he enjoys the intoxicating presence of God and writes about yoga, life, and technology

He can be reached at www.bipinjoshi.com

JOHN PETERSEN, an early adopter of the Microsoft NET Platform, has over 20 years of experience

archi-tecting and developing software Currently, John is a practice director in the Technology Platform Group at

Neudesic, LLC, a Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold ISV Partner and is a 10-time recipient

of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional Award. John is a current ASP.NET/IIS MVP. John has spoken at

numerous industry events, including VSLive and DevConnections, as well as at many regional events and

Code Camps John is also a regular contributor to CODE Magazine.

JEFFERY TAY has been developing and designing NET solutions since 2002, specializing in solutions for the education and medical sectors He was awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for the last

3 years He has experience in Java and most Microsoft technologies such as Silverlight, SQL Server, and Windows Server He is an associate director at the National University of Singapore where he leads a team that manages the university’s Learning Management System and comes up with new solutions where the use

of IT can enhance teaching You can reach Jeffery at taykwama@hotmail.com

DEEPAK VERMA has been developing and designing web solutions for the last 10 years During these years, Deepak has been involved in technologies such as Flash Scripting, Flex, ColdFusion, Silverlight, Java, and PHP and now is mostly working on Microsoft stack He is currently working as a Software Development Engineer in Test for Microsoft At Microsoft he has contributed to Visual Studio Dynamic data tooling, multi-targeting, Razor editor and tooling, Azure SDK for Java, PHP & NET, Visual Studio HTML and CSS editors, Azure Mobile Services, and NuGet He lives in Redmond, Washington, with his wife, Madhu, and children, Adya and Kian You can reach him at deepu_verma@yahoo.com

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I’D LIKE TO THANK the time and dedication of the team at Wrox Press and John Wiley & Sons Without their support, this book would not be possible Thanks to Scott Hunter, Scott Hanselman, Damian Edwards, and the rest of the ASP.NET team for their current leadership to bring ASP.NET 4.5 to market

Thanks to Scott Guthrie, Steve Smith, and Rob Howard for allowing me to join the ASPInsiders program and helping me get my content off the ground Thanks to all of the ASPInsiders and Microsoft MVPs for their support over the years Thanks to Frank Sorokach in allowing me to spend the time necessary to get

my development career off the ground Thanks to Louis Cesare and Sean Higgins for supporting my munity initiatives and giving me time when I’ve needed to provide feedback to the ASP.NET team Thanks

com-to Luzerne County Community College and Penn State University for allowing our user group com-to prosper in Northeastern Pennsylvania Finally, thanks to my family, specifi cally my parents, Deb and Tom Gaylord; my grandparents; my aunts and uncles; my wife, Lisa; and my children for their support It’s not easy writing a book and they’ve certainly understood the time and dedication needed to get this book to ship

—Jason N Gaylord

EVERY BOOK IS A TEAM EFFORT with all the editors (acquisition, development, technical, etc.) involved, but with this title, the authors are quite a large team, too! So thank you to Jason, Pranav, Scott, and Todd, it has been an honor working with you Also we are indebted to the authors of the previous editions, to every-one involved at Wiley, and to our tech editors

About 7 years ago, I was working on another book for the Wrox imprint of Wiley, and promised Yvonne that I would invite her to a really sumptuous dinner at one of Europe´s top restaurants after it has been pub-lished Things did not turn out as planned, including co-authors dropping out, so the book (and the dinner) never materialized So let´s try again—would June 13 work?

—Todd Miranda

BIG THANKS to Pranav Rastogi, Scott Hunter, Damian Edwards, Eilon Lipton, and the whole ASP.NET team that does the real work

—Scott Hanselman

FOREWORD xli

INTRODUCTION xliii

PART I: ASP.NET FUNDAMENTALS

ASP.NET Makes Finding, Adding, and Updating Lego

Summary 16

Caveats 18

Working with CSS in Visual Studio 46

Summary 52

Global.asax 93

Summary 99

CONTENTS

PART II: CONTROLS

CHAPTER 4: ASP.NET SERVER CONTROLS

Manipulating Pages and Server Controls

An Example of Using the ListBox Control 139

Summary 198

CONTENTS

Summary 230

Summary 296 PART III: DATA ACCESS

DetailsView 330 Inserting, Updating, and Deleting Data Using

ListView 334 FormView 340

TreeView 343 Menu 344 Chart 344

Summary 369

CONTENTS

Relationships in Code First 437

Summary 442

Summary 453

CONTENTS

Summary 525 PART IV: PROVIDERS

Setting Up Your Provider to Work with Microsoft SQL Server

Summary 557

Not Implementing Methods and Properties

Implementing Methods and Properties

Using the XmlMembershipProvider for User Login 579

Summary 588 PART V: ASP.NET FEATURES

Summary 620

CONTENTS

ShowStartingNode 654 StartFromCurrentNode 655

Summary 669

Programmatic Access to Personalization 685

Summary 787 PART VI: APPLICATION STATE

QueryStrings 813 Cookies 814

Using HttpContext.Current.Items for Very Short-Term Storage 820 Summary 821

CHAPTER 22: CACHING 823 Caching 824

Summary 854 PART VII: CLIENT-SIDE DEVELOPMENT

CONTENTS

Summary 894

AlwaysVisibleControlExtender 900 AnimationExtender 902 AutoCompleteExtender 903 BalloonPopupExtender 906 CalendarExtender 907 CollapsiblePanelExtender 908 ColorPickerExtender 910

DragPanelExtender 913 DropDownExtender 914 DropShadowExtender 916 DynamicPopulateExtender 919 FilteredTextBoxExtender 922 HoverMenuExtender 923 ListSearchExtender 925

MutuallyExclusiveCheckBoxExtender 928 NumericUpDownExtender 929 PagingBulletedListExtender 930 PopupControlExtender 931 ResizableControlExtender 933 RoundedCornersExtender 935

SlideShowExtender 937 TextBoxWatermarkExtender 939 ToggleButtonExtender 941

UpdatePanelAnimationExtender 942 ValidatorCalloutExtender 944

Summary 1000

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 27: DEVELOPING WEBSITES WITH MOBILE IN MIND 1001

Summary 1023 PART VIII: APPLICATION CONFIGURATION AND DEPLOYMENT

Authentication 1041

Authorization 1044

Confi guring the ASP.NET Worker Process 1051

Summary 1074

CONTENTS

HttpModules 1108 HttpHandlers 1113

Summary 1133

ASP.NET 4.5 Resource Files 1152

Summary 1161 CHAPTER 33: PACKAGING AND DEPLOYING ASP.NET

APPLICATIONS 1163

Summary 1184 PART IX: ADDITIONAL ASP.NET TECHNOLOGIES

Controllers 1203

Views 1207

CONTENTS

Summary 1214

Summary 1235 PART X: APPENDIXES

Summary 1246

APPENDIX C: ASP.NET ULTIMATE TOOLS 1257

Firebug 1257 YSlow 1258

References 1261

Visibone 1262 www.asp.net 1262 www.webdevchecklist.com 1262 SlowCheetah 1262

Summary 1267