ASP.NET WebForms:
A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction

Getting Started with ASP.NET

• Constructing Web Forms with ASP.NET controls
• Developing with Visual Studio
• Debugging with Visual Studio Development Web server
• Applying the common Web Form controls

Architecting the User Interface (UI)

Designing with Master pages

• Ensuring uniform page layout
• Devising site templates
• Adding controls to Master pages

Data-driven site navigation

• Implementing ASP.NET Menu, TreeView and SiteMapPath controls
• Defining your site structure using SiteMaps
• Dynamically moving between pages in code

Standardising the UI

• Implementing CSS without changing page content
• Building Themes from Skins and CSS
• Styling controls with Skins

Retrieving and Updating Data

Creating data-driven applications

• Connecting to data with ASP.NET DataSource controls
• Binding data to Web Form controls
• Automating data access with GridView, FormView and DetailView
• Sorting and paging with GridView

Modifying data

• Data binding to tables with SQL or the Entity Framework
• Code-free declarative data binding
• Updating, deleting and inserting records with two-way data binding
• Integrating custom update code

Reporting

• Delivering reports
• Generating selection criteria for filtering data
• Reporting from dynamically cached data

Binding the Entity Framework

• Integrating data with the Entity DataSource
• Dynamically generating queries with the Query Extender
• Selecting and sorting data with LINQ

Enhancing Web Pages

Building master-detail pages

• Parameterising the data source
• Customising DataViews with templates
• Coordinating master-detail views

Validating data

• Validator controls: Required, Range, Comparison, Summary, RegularExpression
• Implementing business rules with the Custom Validator
• Setting cursor focus on error

Securing the Application

Controlling site access

• Configuring Web Forms authentication and authorisation
• Administering users and roles

Leveraging the Login controls

• Authenticating users with the Login control
• LoginView
• LoginStatus
• LoginName

Customising security

• Configuring the security provider to take control of authentication
• Accessing user and role information from code
• Integrating with Active Directory

Maintaining State

Managing user information

• Tracking the user's state across multiple pages
• Accessing user data with the Session object

Caching application information

• Programmatically caching business objects
• Dealing with stale data

Improving Application Functionality

Simplifying complex processes

• Sequencing tasks with the Wizard control
• Partitioning the User Interface with MultiView

Handling common tasks

• Sending e-mail
• Uploading files
• Accepting dates through the Calendar control

Deploying Your Application

• The ASP.NET compilation model
• Publishing your Web site