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The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks

- Here’s a look at the table of contents:

Preface
- Who Should Read this Book?
- What’s Covered in this Book?
- The Book’s Web Site
  - The Code Archive
  - Updates and Errata
- The SitePoint Forums
- The SitePoint Newsletters
- Your Feedback
- Conventions Used in this Book
  - Code Samples
  - Tips, Notes, and Warnings
Introductory Topics
- Which web project model should I choose?
- How do I deploy my web site?
- How do I choose a third-party web host?
- How do I use source control?
- How do I go about using open source code?
- Where can I find more information about ASP.NET?
- Summary
.NET 2.0 Core Libraries
- How do I use strings?
- How do I display an object as a string?
- How do I display formatted strings?
- How do I use generics?
- How do I filter items in a generic collection?
- How can I get more use out of my custom logic?
- How do I convert generic lists to specific classes?
- How do I concatenate delimited strings from object properties?
- How do I batch operations with large collections?
- How do I choose the right collection?
- Summary
Data Access
- How can I get started using ADO.NET?
- How do I configure my database connection?
- How do I read data from my database?
- How do I sort and filter data?
- How do I fill a DropDownList from a database table?
- How can I perform data binding without having to write all that repetitive code?
- How do I display the contents of a database table?
- How do I allow the modification of a single record?
- How can I data bind without using the SqlDataSource?
- Summary
Pushing the Boundaries of the GridView
- How do I add a data-bound drop-down to a GridView?
- How do I sort on multiple columns?
- How do I display the sort state?
- How do I implement custom paging?
- How can I allow users to download tabular data as a Microsoft Excel file?
- Summary
Form Validation
- How do I validate form input?
- How do I validate multiple forms?
- How do I set up custom validation?
- How do I perform custom client-side validation?
- How do I build my own validator control?
- How do I perform client-side validation with my custom validator control?
- Summary
Maintaining State
- How do I maintain per-request state in a web application?
- How can I maintain session state in a web farm using a state server?
- How can I maintain session state in a web farm using a database?
- Where should I store application state?
- What’s the cleanest way to access a page’s view state?
- How can I make sure my custom control works when view state is turned off?
- Summary
Membership and Access Control
- What’s the easiest way to add membership to my site?
- How do I allow users to register for my site?
- How do I manage users on my site?
- How do I require users to log in?
- How do I grant access to users who have forgotten their passwords?
- How do I display content based on roles?
- Summary
Component-based Development
- How can I use master pages?
- How can my content page override data on my master page?
- How can I have my master page interact with my content page?
- How do I use URLs in a master page?
- How do I modify header elements in a master page?
- How do I use themes effectively in conjunction with CSS?
- How do I treat user controls as components?
- How do I embed resources into my components?
- Summary
ASP.NET and Web Standards
- What are all these span tags doing in my HTML output?
- How do I obtain DataList-style functionality without using a table?
- How do I use ASP.NET’s fancy menus without the fancy HTML?
- How do I make sense of the CSS maze produced by the CSS Friendly menu?
- Summary
Ajax and JavaScript
- How can I write better JavaScript?
- How can libraries make writing robust, cross-platform JavaScript easier?
- How do I use Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX?
- How do I perform partial page rendering?
- How do I show progress during a partial page render?
- How do I periodically refresh an UpdatePanel?
- How do I work with generated IDs?
- Where can I get some fancy ASP.NET controls?
- How can I debug JavaScript?
- Summary
Working with Email
- How do I send a plain-text email?
- How do I send an HTML email?
- How do I attach a file to my email?
- How do I send personalized form letters?
- How do I allow users to submit content via email?
- How do I send an email without waiting for it to complete?
- Summary
Rendering Binary Content
- How do I write binary content?
- How do I write raw data to the response?
- How do I request an HttpHandler?
- How do I write non-text binary data?
- How do I render simple bars?
- How do I create a real bar graph handler?
- How can I improve the quality of my dynamic images?
- How can I use a handler to control access to the images on my site?
- Summary
Handling Errors
- How can I handle exceptions in my code?
- How can I handle errors in my web site?
- How can I use a pre-built exception handling strategy?
- What’s the best way to write a log file?
- How do I debug log4net?
- How do I perform tracing?
- Summary
Configuration
- How do I store and retrieve basic settings?
- How do I store connection strings?
- How do I retrieve settings declaratively?
- How do I create a custom configuration section?
- How can I simplify my Web.config file?
- How can I manage Web.config values between deployment environments?
- How can I encrypt a section of my Web.config file?
- Summary
Performance and Scaling
- How do I determine what to optimize?
- How can I decrease the size of the view state?
- How can I decrease the bandwidth that my site uses?
- How can I improve the speed of my site?
- How do I refresh my cache when the data changes?
- How can I gain more control over the ASP.NET cache?
- How do I speed up my database queries?
- How can I troubleshoot a slow query?
- Summary
Search Engine Optimization
- How does Google rank pages?
- How do I ensure search engines review only search-relevant content?
- How do I rewrite my URLs for human readability?
- How do I ensure my web pages are visible to search engines?
- How do I ensure my web pages produce descriptive search results?
- Summary
Advanced Topics
- How can I tell what’s going on behind the scenes?
- How do I build a screen scraper?
- How do I build a data access layer?
- How do I automatically generate a data access layer?
- Summary
Index

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Scott Allen, Jeff Atwood, Wyatt Barnett, Jon Galloway & Phil Haack

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Features

Latest Update: Sept 2007

596 pages
Question-and-answer format makes it easy to use when solving problems and finding about common pitfalls and workarounds
Comprehensive coverage for all the current ASP.NET 2.0 hot topics, including Ajax and Javascript, performance and scaling issues, component based development and graceful error handling.
Covers all the latest ASP.NET 2.0 'killer' features

Customer Reviews

Live, unmoderated reviews from our customers, typos and all.

I'm very happy with the Anthology. I respect the authors and found a wealth of valuable content. They cut through all the options available and get down to best-practices. Much appreciated.

Bill B., USA

Book is great with lot of quick tips and examples. I would recommend this to any ASP.NET developer.

Anil Panjwani, USA

Kind of .Net bible for the non professional educated user. I already learned a lot of new (2.0) features.

Frans Michels, Netherlands

Very informative. will be more useful when I've learned the basics but very well thought out and implemented espec considering everything has to be repeated in VB.NET & C#. Well worth the money

Rob Langdon, United Kingdom

This book is great!! No-nonsense presentation, just gets down to the business of showing you stuff you can use now.

The book is best for someone who knows a bit about ASP.NET already - a complete beginner probably needs the other Sitepoint book "Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB" to get started.