Programming ASP.NET, Second Edition

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1, is an introduction to ASP.NET and the .NET platform and also demonstrates the simplest possible application you might build with ASP.NET. Chapter 2, introduces the Visual Studio .NET Integrated Development Environment and shows how you can use it to create ASP.NET applications.

The next three chapters (Chapter 3, Chapter 4, and Chapter 5) provide complete coverage of HTML Server Controls and ASP Controls. (Note that Chapter 10, Chapter 13, and Chapter 14 round out the extensive discussion of controls in ASP.NET.)

Chapter 6 covers several fundamental concepts crucial to building powerful web applications, including code segregation, state management, and the control life cycle.

Chapter 7 examines Tracing, Debugging, and Error Handling in ASP.NET.

Chapter 8 looks at Validation. ASP.NET provides extensive support for data validation, including range checking, ensuring that a choice has been made, checking that values are within a range, and matching regular expressions. The ASP.NET Framework will automatically and invisibly take advantage of the capabilities of up-level browsers (e.g., IE6) to do the data validation at the client, while still providing server-based validation for down-level browsers.

Chapter 9 looks at Data Binding, the powerful ability to bind complex user interface controls to database tables and other data structures.

Chapter 10 examines the List-Bound Controls, Part I, including the incredibly powerful data grid. This chapter ...