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Authors: Cristian Darie,Zak Ruvalcaba,Wyatt Barnett
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About the Authors
Cristian Darie is a software engineer with experience in a wide range of modern technologies, and the author of numerous technical books, including the popular
Beginning E-Commerce
series. Having worked with computers since he was old enough to use a keyboard, he initially
tasted programming success with a prize in his first programming contest at the age of 12.
From there, Cristian moved on to many other similar achievements, and is now studying
distributed application architectures for his PhD.
He always loves hearing feedback about his books, so don't hesitate to drop him a “hello”
message when you have a spare moment. Cristian can be contacted through his personal web
site at http://www.cristiandarie.ro.
Wyatt Barnett leads the in-house development team for a major industry trade association
in Washington DC. When not slinging obscene amounts of C# and SQL at a few exceedingly
large monitors, he is most often spotted staring at HDTV and other forms of entertainment
in local watering holes. He also writes for SitePoint's .NET blog,
The Daily Catch
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About the Technical Editor
Andrew Tetlaw has been tinkering with web sites as a web developer since 1997 and has
also worked as a high school English teacher, an English teacher in Japan, a window cleaner,
a car washer, a kitchen hand, and a furniture salesman. At SitePoint he is dedicated to making the world a better place through the technical editing of SitePoint books, kits, and articles. He is also a busy father of five, enjoys coffee, and often neglects his blog at http://tetlaw.id.au/.
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As Technical Director for SitePoint, Kevin Yank oversees all of its technical publications—books, articles, newsletters, and blogs. He has written over 50 articles for SitePoint, but is best known for his book,
Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP &
MySQL
. Kevin lives in Melbourne, Australia, and enjoys performing improvised comedy
theater and flying light aircraft.
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—Cristian Darie
To my Father, whose guidance got
me this far.
—Wyatt Barnett
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Table of Contents
Preface
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Who Should Read This Book?
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The Book’s Web Site
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The Code Archive
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Updates and Errata
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The SitePoint Forums
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The SitePoint Newsletters
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Conventions Used in This Book
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Tips, Notes, and Warnings
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Acknowledgments
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Introducing ASP.NET and the .NET
Platform
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Installing the Required Software
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5
Installing Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition
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6
Installing SQL Server Management Studio Express
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Writing Your First ASP.NET Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
ASP.NET Basics
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Code Declaration Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Code Render Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
ASP.NET Server Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Server-side Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Literal Text and HTML Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Working with Directives
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C#
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VB and C# Programming Basics
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45
Control Events and Subroutines
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Variables and Variable Declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Object Oriented Programming Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Objects and Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Methods
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Constructors
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Scope
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Understanding Inheritance
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Using Code-behind Files
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Pages
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HTML Server Controls
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Using the HTML Server Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Web Server Controls
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Standard Web Server Controls
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Advanced Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Web User Controls
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Creating a Web User Control
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Master Pages
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Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
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Types of Styles and Style Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Building Web Applications
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Introducing the Dorknozzle Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Using Visual Web Developer
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Meeting the Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Executing Your Project
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Core Web Application Features
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Web.config
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172
Using Application State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Working with User Sessions
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Using the Cache Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Starting the Dorknozzle Project
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Preparing the Sitemap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Using Themes, Skins, and Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196