Moving to ASP.NET provides focused and thorough guidance on creating Web applications using ASP.NET, including both Web Form applications and Web Services. Steve Harris and Rob Macdonald have worked extensively with .NET throughout the Beta program, and have gained real-world experience of creating and implementing ASP.NET applications. This book is targeted at current developers rather than novices, and assumes that readers will gain an understanding of companion technologies (such as VB .NET and ADO.NET) from other sources. However, appendices have been included that provide a brief review or introduction to each of these.

Moving to ASP.NET provides in-depth discussion and examination of the topics that are of interest to current developers, and shows them how to make immediate use of ASP.NET. Topics covered include Web Forms, server-side controls, mobile controls, data access and data binding, XML integration, .NET architecture and configuration, security, state and session management, designing for scalability, and Web services. Extensive examples are shown throughout the book, and are also available via the Web for readers to access and download.

Contents

• Chapter 1: Introducing ASP.NET
• Chapter 2: Web Forms
• Chapter 3: HTML Controls
• Chapter 4: Web Controls
• Chapter 5: Building Custom Web Controls
• Chapter 6: Building Mobile Web Applications
• Chapter 7: Working with Databases
• Chapter 8: Working with XML
• Chapter 9: Web Application Architecture
• Chapter 10: Web Security
• Chapter 11: Designing Web Applications
• Chapter 12: Achieving Scalability
• Chapter 13: Web Services
• Appendices
• • Appendix A: Web and ASP Basics
  • Appendix B: The What and Why of .NET
  • Appendix C: The Visual Basic .NET Language
  • Appendix D: An Overview of ADO.NET
  • Appendix E: The Common Language Runtime
  • Appendix F: Updating DataSets