Secrets of Real World ASP.NET Dynamic Data Websites


Book Description

This Wrox Blox will teach you how to work with the new ASP.NET Dynamic Data feature set. Rather than being a new data access technology or some new approach to querying the database, a Dynamic Data web site helps abstract the user interface controls needed to present the data in your database. You will learn to model the database in LINQ to SQL and apply a variety of metadata attributes to the model. These attributes and their arguments will allow field templates to adapt to the context of the application. Furthermore, this Wrox Blox will teach you how to build specialized user controls called field templates that respond to the metadata information applied to database models. You will see how to push validation rules and custom business logic out of the user interface layer and down to the model layer. Finally, you will learn how to secure scaffolding pages that provide full editing capabilities to your database tables. Table of Contents Exploring a Dynamic Data Web Site 1 Prerequisites 2 Create the Web Site 2 Building Blocks 6 Understanding Model Metadata 7 Display Name 9 Required 9 Regular Expression 9 String Length 9 UI Hint 9 Range 9 Display Format 10 Scaffold Column 10 Metadata Type 10 Display Column 10 Scaffold Table 10 Building Custom Field Templates 10 Build the URL Field Templates 11 Validating against Custom Business Logic 19 Validate Unique E-Mail Addresses 20 Move the Data Context to a Separate Assembly 22 Secure the Scaffolding 25 Add ASP.NET Membership Services 25 Secure Scaffold Pages 28 Wrapping Up 29 About the Author 30







ASP.NET Dynamic Data Unleashed


Book Description

Using Dynamic Data, ASP.NET developers can create powerful, datadriven sites with amazing speed and efficiency, eliminating massive amounts of manual coding. ASP.NET Dynamic Data Unleashed is the first complete, practical guide to Dynamic Data for every experienced ASP.NET developer. The author thoroughly demystifies Dynamic Data, helping developers understand exactly what they can do with the framework and make it more accessible than ever before. He provides tested code to solve a wide variety of problems, explains how and why that code works, and identifies key tradeoffs and alternatives. Packed with breakthrough techniques for improving developer productivity, this book combines a hands-on tutorial, “drill-down” explanations of advanced techniques, and real-world development scenarios. Detailed information on how to... Use Dynamic Data components to overcome common real-world user interface development challenges Understand how ASP.NET Dynamic Data builds on strengths of WebForms, Entity Framework, and LINQ Develop simple custom templates to dramatically reduce code duplication Generalize templates to leverage metadata and generate user interfaces dynamically Create web pages for data entry, data filtering, and diverse views of data Use Data Annotations to implement powerful validation logic Write simple, yet effective automated tests to systematically verify the business logic Create complex interaction rules that aren’t limited by single entity objects or types Optimize I/O-bound business logic by implementing it with T-SQL constraints, stored procedures, and triggers Implement role-based security with dynamic UI trimming Generate entire data-driven web applications, complete with CRUD pages, complex business rules, integrated navigation, and security Extend Dynamic Data to support advanced scenarios Decide when Dynamic Data should be used instead of or together with ASP.NET MVC




Professional ASP.NET MVC 4


Book Description

An outstanding author team presents the ultimate Wrox guide to ASP.NET MVC 4 Microsoft insiders join giants of the software development community to offer this in-depth guide to ASP.NET MVC, an essential web development technology. Experienced .NET and ASP.NET developers will find all the important information they need to build dynamic, data-driven websites with ASP.NET and the newest release of Microsoft's Model-View-Controller technology. Featuring step-by-step guidance and lots of code samples, this guide gets you started and moves all the way to advanced topics, using plenty of examples. Designed to give experienced .NET and ASP.NET programmers everything needed to work with the newest version of MVC technology Expert author team includes Microsoft ASP.NET MVC insiders as well as leaders of the programming community Covers controllers, views, models, forms and HTML helpers, data annotation and validation, membership, authorization, security, and routing Includes essential topics such as Ajax and jQuery, NuGet, dependency injection, unit testing, extending MVC, and Razor Includes additional real-world coverage requested by readers of the previous edition as well as a new case study example chapter




Real World ASP.NET


Book Description

This is the complete hands-on guide to mastering the art of Content Management Systems (CMS) and Web site development using the .NET Framework.




Introduction to ASP.NET 4 AJAX Client Templates


Book Description

This Wrox Blox will teach you how to create and customize ASP.NET 4 AJAX Preview 4 Client Templates. The author shows you how to use declarative as well as imperative data-binding techniques to address the simple to advanced UI requirements. He also covers how the observer pattern is fully implemented in ASP.NET 4 AJAX and, when used in conjunction with the Client Template markup extensions, provides a developer experience much like XAML-based applications like WPF and Silverlight. This Wrox Blox walks you through how to implement examples that fetch data from ASP.NET Web Forms using Page Methods and ASP.NET MVC controller actions, as well as interfacing directly with ADO.NET Data Services. Table of Contents What’s New in ASP.NET 4 AJAX Preview 4 1 What Are Client Templates? 1 Environment Setup 3 Scripts Files 3 DataView 3 Updating a DataView 8 Data-Binding Syntax 10 Observer Pattern in JavaScript 16 Update the List Editor 19 Create the Page 20 Template Manipulation 23 Pseudo-Columns 24 Code Injection 24 Fetching Data from the Server 27 Using ASP.NET Page Methods 28 Using an ASP.NET MVC Controller Action 30 Using ADO.NET Data Services 31 Wrapping Up 39 About Craig Shoemaker 40




Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 and Databases


Book Description

Combining both VB.Net and C# coverage in one book, this guide focuses on using ASP.NET 2.0 for solving business dynamic Web site challenges in a logical progression, from connecting to a database to displaying information to changing data Covers the fundamentals of connecting Web pages to databases, techniques for creating data objects and events, and ways to handle data errors Features tricks and traps for displaying data in grids, lists, and trees Goes beyond the usual basic techniques to discuss the best practices and pitfalls that can occur in real-world scenarios with SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Access, and the new SQL Server Express Edition




Beginning Dynamic Websites


Book Description

What is this book about? With this book and Web Matrix, you'll be developing your own powerful ASP.NET websites in no time. You'll start at the beginning, learning how to create graphical web pages in Web Matrix. Then you'll use Visual Basic .NET and databases to add the dynamic features usually seen in expensive commercial websites. You'll finish by looking at some of the expert ASP.NET features — writing our own controls and web services. Even if you've never programmed before, this book will take you right into the world of professional web development. You'll be amazed at how easy it is and how much you can do. What does this book cover? With this book, you will learn how to Go further than just static HTML websites, by using a programming language. We will get you building real dynamic websites right from the beginning Change the content of your pages quickly and easily by using databases. With this book, you'll learn how databases work, and how to make the most of them. Add interactivity to your website by creating your very own guest book, and allow people to leave message with emoticons. Create content you can distribute to other websites, and learn how to automatically update it all over the Web in one go! Who is this book for? Users of any edition of Microsoft Windows XP, or 2000 — ideal for beginners — no HTML knowledge is required. Warning! Microsoft has informed us that the version of MSDE distributed with this book is susceptible to the slammer worm. Microsoft is providing a patch for this version of MSDE at the following URL: http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/sdkfix/default.asp. If you have installed MSDE using the CD in the book, and wish to protect yourself from this virus, you should consider applying this patch. We are very sorry for any inconvenience caused.




Developing Web Applications with ASP.NET and C#


Book Description

Learn how to create the basic, dynamic, and advanced ASP.NET pages in C# Packed with tips, tricks, and workarounds, this book covers every aspect of developing a Web application for the enterprise using ASP.NET and C#. Written by Microsoft insiders, it shows readers how to create the basic, dynamic, and advanced ASP.NET pages in Microsoft's new C# programming language, and explains how to interact with the database using ADO.NET. The authors review how to transport and display data on the Internet or an Intranet using XML, objects, and Web services. They also explain how to implement security with authentication, integrate important e-commerce issues, and optimize the ASP.NET Web application for optimal performance. Companion Web site features complete source code samples for the applications developed and explained in the book. Microsoft Technologies .NET Platform: The next big overhaul to Microsoft's technologies that will bring enterprise distributed computing to the next level by fully integrating the Internet into the development platform. This will allow interaction between any machine, on any platform, and on any device. Visual Basic.NET: The update to this popular visual programming language will offer greater Web functionality, more sophisticated object-oriented language features, links to Microsoft's new common runtime, and a new interface. ASP.NET: A programming framework (formerly known as Active Server Pages) for building powerful Web-based enterprise applications; can be programmed using VB.NET or C#. C#: Microsoft's new truly object-oriented programming language that builds on the strengths of C++ and the ease of Visual Basic; promises to give Sun's Java a run for its money.




DEVELOPING WEB APPLICATIONS USING ASP.NET AND ORACLE


Book Description

This thoroughly revised and updated Second Edition provides an in-depth information that readers need to fully exploit the functionality of Microsoft’s ASP.NET framework and Oracle’s Database Server to build dynamic and interactive web applications that can handle a large number of simultaneous users. The book provides readers with information pertaining to ASP.NET 4.0 architecture; its installation, web controls, master pages, themes, state management, AJAX and deployment of web applications. It includes the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), which are used for designing the web pages. In order to facilitate an easy learning of intricate concepts involved in the development of data-driven dynamic web applications, the book provides a detailed treatment on the Oracle Structured Query Language (SQL) and Oracle PL/SQL. It also introduces the distributed architecture and discusses how ASP.NET framework, Oracle database and Internet Information Services (IIS) can be used to develop and deploy the solutions for distributed environment. After going through this book, the students/professionals will be able to: • Develop data-driven web applications using Oracle as back-end. • Present data through data-bound controls. • Manage consistent look and fill using master pages and themes. • Develop stateful e-commerce applications. • Develop rich interactive web applications using AJAX. • Embed Microsoft Reports to produce dynamic printable output. • Debug, deploy and secure web applications. The book is intended to serve as a guide for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of Computer Science, Computer Applications and Information Technology. Besides, it would also be useful to IT professionals to enhance their technical skills. Key Features More than 100 worked-out examples and 20 assignments. Around 200 objective and subjective type questions. Two real-world case studies with solutions. Project development work following the complete SDLC process model. Three appendices, namely Integrating Microsoft Reports in ASP.NET, Installation of Visual Studio 2010, and Answers to Chapter-end Practice Questions. New to the Second Edition Provides information for designing and developing the web applications using Visual Studio. Includes two new chapters—one on Master Pages, Themes and State Manage-ment and the other on AJAX in ASP.NET and Web Deployment of Application. Includes the new features of ASP.NET 4.0. Gives additional questions in each chapter. Includes a CD-ROM, which contains programs (tested with ASP.NET 4.0 and compatible with Oracle 10g) corresponding to all the examples, assignments, case studies and the project included in the book. The installation processes of programs are described in the relevant chapters of the book.