Beginning ASP.NET for Visual Studio 2015 / William Penberthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penberthy, William, author.

Series:

Wrox beginning guides Beginning ASP.NET for Visual Studio 2015

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web services--Management.

Web services.

Web applications--Development.

Web applications.

Active server pages.

Microsoft .NET Framework.

Microsoft Visual studio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (793 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, Indiana : Wrox, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The complete guide to the productivity and performance enhancements in ASP.NET Beginning ASP.NET for Visual Studio 2015 is your ultimate guide to the latest upgrade of this historically popular framework. Fully updated to align with the vNext release, this new edition walks you through the new tools and features that make your workflow smoother and your applications stronger. You'll get up to speed on the productivity and performance improvements, and learn how Microsoft has committed itself to more continuous innovation by increasing its release cadence for all products and services going forward. Coverage includes Async-aware debugging, ADO.NET idle connection resiliency, managed return value inspection, ASP.NET app suspension, on-demand large object heap compaction, multi-core JIT and more. The news of an off-cycle update to ASP.NET came as a surprise, but its announcement garnered cheers at the 2014 Microsoft BUILD conference. This guide shows you what all the fuss is about, and how Microsoft overhauled the latest ASP.NET release. * Get acquainted with the new developer productivity features * Master the new tools that build better applications * Discover what's new in Windows Store app development * Learn how Microsoft fixed the issues that kept you from v5 Over 38 million websites are currently using ASP.NET, and the new upgrade is already leading to increased adoption. Programmers need to master v6 to remain relevant as web development moves forward. Beginning ASP.NET for Visual Studio 2015 walks you through the details, and shows you what you need to know so you can get up and running quickly.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Who this Book is for

What this Book Covers

How this Book is Structured

What You Need to Use this Book

Conventions

Source Code

Errata

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Chapter 1 Getting Started with ASP.NET 6.0

An Introduction to ASP.NET vNext

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

Microsoft Internet Information Services

HTML 5

HTML Markup

Attributes in HTML

HTML Example

ASP.NET Web Forms

ViewState

ASP.NET Web Forms Events and Page Lifecycle

Control Library

ASP.NET MVC

Testability

Full Control over Output

Web Forms and MVC Similarities

Choosing the Best Approach

Using Visual Studio 2015

Versions

Downloading and Installing

The Sample Application

Summary

Chapter 2 Building an Initial ASP.NET Application

Creating Websites with Visual Studio 2015

Available Project Types

Web Site Project-Based Approach

Web Application Project

Creating a New Site

While Creating a Project

Empty Template

Web Forms Template

MVC Template

Web API Template

Single Page Application Template

Azure Mobile Service Template

Working with Files in Your Application

File Types of an ASP.NET MVC Application

File System Structure of an ASP.NET MVC Application

File Types of an ASP.NET Web Forms Application

MVC and Web Form File Differences

Creating the Sample Application

Chapter 3 Designing Your Web Pages

HTML and CSS

Why Use Both HTML and CSS?

An Introduction to CSS

More CSS

Selectors

Properties

Precedence in Styles

The Style Sheet

Adding CSS to Your Pages

Creating Embedded and Inline Style Sheets

Applying Styles

Managing Styles

Chapter 4 Programming in C# and VB.NET

Introduction to Programming

Data Types and Variables.

Defining a Variable

Operators

Converting and Casting Data Types

Converting Data Types

Casting Data Types

Using Arrays and Collections

Using Arrays

Using Collections

Decision-Making Operations

Comparison Operators

Logical Operators

If Statement

Switch/Select Case Statement

Loops

For Loop

Foreach/For Each Loops

While Loop

Exiting Loops

Organizing Code

Methods: Functions and Subroutines

Writing Comments and Documentation

Object-Oriented Programming Basics

Important OO Terminology

Classes

Fields

Methods

Constructors

Inheritance

Events

Chapter 5 ASP.NET Web Form Server Controls

Introduction to Server Controls

Defining Controls in Your Pages

Types of Controls

Standard Controls

HTML Controls

Data Controls

Validation Controls

Navigation Controls

Login Controls

AJAX Extensions

Other Control Sets

The ASP.NET State Engine

How the State Engine Works

Chapter 6 ASP.NET MVC Helpers and Extensions

Why MVC Has Fewer Controls Than Web Forms

A Different Approach

Razor

Controller

Routing

HTTP Verbs and Attributes

Form-Building Helpers

Form Extensions

Editor and EditorFor

Model Binding

Chapter 7 Creating Consistent-Looking Websites

Consistent Page Layout with Master Pages

Creating and Using Master Pages in ASP.NET Web Forms

Creating a Content Page in ASP.NET Web Forms

Creating Layouts in ASP.NET MVC

Creating a Content View in ASP.NET MVC

Using a Centralized Base Page

Chapter 8 Navigation

Different Ways to Move around Your Site

Understanding Absolute and Relative URLs

Understanding Default Documents

Friendly URLs

Using the ASP.NET Web Forms Navigation Controls

Using the Menu Control

Navigating in ASP.NET MVC.

Routing

Default Configuration and Route

Creating a Navigational Structure

Programmatic Redirection

Programmatically Redirecting the Client to a Different Page

Server-Side Redirects

Practical Tips on Navigation

Chapter 9 Displaying and Updating Data

Working with SQL Server Express

Installation

SQL Server Management Studio

Connecting in Visual Studio

Entity Framework Approach to Data Access

Data First

Code First

Selecting Data from the Database

Data Controls in Web Forms

Details View

Web Form GridView

Data Display in MVC

List Display in MVC

Details Views

Chapter 10 Working with Data-Advanced Topics

Sorting and Pagination

Sorting and Pagination in Web Form Server Controls

Sorting and Pagination in MVC Lists

Updating and/or Inserting Data

A Non-Code First Approach to Database Access

Using SQL Queries and Stored Procedures

Caching

Different Ways to Cache Data in ASP.NET Applications

Common Pitfalls with Caching Data

Chapter 11 User Controls and Partial Views

Introduction to User Controls

Creating User Controls

Adding User Controls

Sitewide Registration of a User Control

Managing the IDs of Any Controls

Adding Logic to Your User Controls

Using Partial Views

Adding a Partial View

Managing the Controller for a Partial View

Templates

Chapter 12 Validating User Input

Gathering Data from the User

Validating User Input in Web Forms

Understanding Request Validation

Validating User Input in MVC

Model Attribution

Client-Side Validation

Request Validation in ASP.NET MVC

Validation Tips

Chapter 13 ASP.NET AJAX

Introducing the Concept of AJAX

F12 Developer Tools

Using ASP.NET AJAX in Web Forms

The Initial AJAX Experience.

Enhancing the AJAX Experience

Using AJAX in MVC

Using Web Services in AJAX Websites

jQuery in AJAX

Practical AJAX Tips

Chapter 14 JQuery

An Introduction to jQuery

Early JavaScript

jQuery's Role

Including the jQuery Library

Bundles

jQuery Syntax

jQuery Core

Working with the jQuery Utility Methods

Selecting Items Using jQuery

Modifying the DOM with jQuery

Changing Appearance with jQuery

Handling Events

Debugging jQuery

Practical Tips on jQuery

Chapter 15 Security in Your ASP.NET Website

Introducing Security

Identity: Who Are You?

Authentication: How Can Users Prove Who They Are?

Authorization: What Are You Allowed to Do?

Logging in with ASP.NET

Configuring Your Web Application for Security

Working with Users within Your Application

Roles

Configuring Your Application to Work with Roles

Programmatically Checking Roles

Practical Security Tips

Chapter 16 Personalizing Websites

Understanding the Profile

Creating the Profile

Using the Profile

Practical Personalization Tips

Chapter 17 Exception Handling, Debugging, and Tracing

Error Handling

Different Types of Errors

Syntax Errors

Logic Errors

Runtime Errors

Catching and Handling Exceptions

Global Error Handling and Custom Error Pages

Error Handling in a Controller

The Basics of Debugging

Tools Support for Debugging

Moving Around in Debugged Code

Debugging Windows

Other Windows

Debugging Client-Side Script

Tracing Your ASP.NET Web Pages

Adding Your Own Information to the Trace

Tracing and Performance

Logging

Downloading, Installing, and Configuring a Logger

Chapter 18 Working with Source Control

Introducing Team Foundation Services

Why Use Source Control.

Setting Up a Visual Studio Online Account

Checking Code In and Out

Undoing Changes

Shelvesets

Getting a Specific Version from the Server

Seeing Changed Items in Solution Explorer

Looking at History and Comparing Versions

Labeling

Interacting with a Team

Changing Default Source Control Behavior in Visual Studio

Branching and Merging

Chapter 19 Deploying Your WEBSITE

Preparing Your Website for Deployment

Avoiding Hard-Coded Settings

The Web.config File

Expression Syntax

The Web Configuration Manager Class

Preparing for Deployment

Microsoft Azure

Publishing Your Site

Introducing Web.config Transformations

Moving Data to a Remote Server

Smoke Testing Your Application

Going Forward

Appendix: Answers to Exercises

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 19, 2016).

ISBN:

9781119077237

1119077230

9781119077121

1119077125