1100 Best ASP.NET Books of All Time
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2C# in Depth
C# has changed significantly since it was first introduced. With the many upgraded features, C# is more expressive than ever. However, an in depth understanding is required to get the most out of the language.
C# in Depth, Second Edition is a thoroughly revised, up-to-date book that covers the new features of C# 4 as well as Code Contracts. In it, you'll see the subtleties of C# programming in action, learning how to work with high-value features that you'll be glad to have in your toolkit. The book helps readers avoid hidden pitfalls of C# programming by understanding "behind the scenes" issues.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
C# in Depth, Second Edition is a thoroughly revised, up-to-date book that covers the new features of C# 4 as well as Code Contracts. In it, you'll see the subtleties of C# programming in action, learning how to work with high-value features that you'll be glad to have in your toolkit. The book helps readers avoid hidden pitfalls of C# programming by understanding "behind the scenes" issues.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
3ASP.NET Core 3 and Angular 9: Full stack web development with .NET Core 3.1 and Angular 9, 3rd Edition
4C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development: Build applications with C#, .NET Core, Entity Framework Core, ASP.NET Core, and ML.NET using Visual Studio Code, 4th Edition
5CLR via C# (4th Edition) (Developer Reference)
Dig deep and master the intricacies of the common language runtime, C#, and .NET development. Led by programming expert Jeffrey Richter, a longtime consultant to the Microsoft .NET team - you’ll gain pragmatic insights for building robust, reliable, and responsive apps and components.
6Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#
With the award-winning book Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices, Robert C. Martin helped bring Agile principles to tens of thousands of Java and C++ programmers. Now .NET programmers have a definitive guide to agile methods with this completely updated volume from Robert C. Martin and Micah Martin, Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#.
This book presents a series of case studies illustrating the fundamentals of Agile development and Agile design, and moves quickly from UML models to real C# code. The introductory chapters lay out the basics of the agile movement, while the later chapters show proven techniques in action. The book includes many source code examples that are also available for download from the authors' Web site.
Readers will come away from this book understanding
Agile principles, and the fourteen practices of Extreme Programming Spiking, splitting, velocity, and planning iterations and releases Test-driven development, test-first design, and acceptance testing Refactoring with unit testing Pair programming Agile design and design smells The five types of UML diagrams and how to use them effectively Object-oriented package design and design patterns How to put all of it together for a real-world project Whether you are a C# programmer or a Visual Basic or Java programmer learning C#, a software development manager, or a business analyst, Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# is the first book you should read to understand agile software and how it applies to programming in the .NET Framework.
This book presents a series of case studies illustrating the fundamentals of Agile development and Agile design, and moves quickly from UML models to real C# code. The introductory chapters lay out the basics of the agile movement, while the later chapters show proven techniques in action. The book includes many source code examples that are also available for download from the authors' Web site.
Readers will come away from this book understanding
Agile principles, and the fourteen practices of Extreme Programming Spiking, splitting, velocity, and planning iterations and releases Test-driven development, test-first design, and acceptance testing Refactoring with unit testing Pair programming Agile design and design smells The five types of UML diagrams and how to use them effectively Object-oriented package design and design patterns How to put all of it together for a real-world project Whether you are a C# programmer or a Visual Basic or Java programmer learning C#, a software development manager, or a business analyst, Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# is the first book you should read to understand agile software and how it applies to programming in the .NET Framework.
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7Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches
Summary
Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Third Edition is an innovative tutorial designed for busy IT professionals. This updated edition covers PowerShell features that run on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and later, PowerShell v3 and later, and includes v5 features like PowerShellGet.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
PowerShell is both a scripting language and an administrative shell that lets you control and automate nearly every aspect of Windows. It accepts and executes commands interactively and you can write scripts to manage most Windows servers like Exchange, IIS, and SharePoint, as well as online services like Azure and Office 365.
About the Book
Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Third Edition is an innovative tutorial designed for busy IT professionals. Just set aside one hour a day - lunchtime would be perfect - for a month, and you'll be automating Windows tasks faster than you ever thought possible. This updated edition covers PowerShell features that run on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and later, PowerShell v3 and later, and includes v5 features like PowerShellGet.
What's Inside
Learn PowerShell from the beginning, no experience required!
Covers PowerShell v3 and up, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 and later
Each lesson takes you an hour or less
About the Reader
Experience with Windows administration is helpful. No programming or scripting experience needed.
About the Author
Veteran PowerShell MVPs Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks bring years as successful trainers to this concise, easy-to-follow book.
Table of Contents
Before you begin
Meet PowerShell
Using the help system
Running commands
Working with providers
The pipeline: connecting commands
Adding commands
Objects: data by another name
The pipeline, deeper
Formatting - and why it's done on the right
Filtering and comparisons
A practical interlude
Remote control: one-to-one, and one-to-many
Using Windows Management Instrumentation and CIM
Multitasking with background jobs
Working with many objects, one at a time
Security alert!
Variables: a place to store your stuff
Input and output
Sessions: remote control with less work
You call this scripting?
Improving your parameterized script
Advanced remoting configuration
Using regular expressions to parse text files
Additional random tips, tricks, and techniques
Using someone else's script
Never the end
PowerShell cheat sheet
Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Third Edition is an innovative tutorial designed for busy IT professionals. This updated edition covers PowerShell features that run on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and later, PowerShell v3 and later, and includes v5 features like PowerShellGet.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
PowerShell is both a scripting language and an administrative shell that lets you control and automate nearly every aspect of Windows. It accepts and executes commands interactively and you can write scripts to manage most Windows servers like Exchange, IIS, and SharePoint, as well as online services like Azure and Office 365.
About the Book
Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Third Edition is an innovative tutorial designed for busy IT professionals. Just set aside one hour a day - lunchtime would be perfect - for a month, and you'll be automating Windows tasks faster than you ever thought possible. This updated edition covers PowerShell features that run on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and later, PowerShell v3 and later, and includes v5 features like PowerShellGet.
What's Inside
Learn PowerShell from the beginning, no experience required!
Covers PowerShell v3 and up, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 and later
Each lesson takes you an hour or less
About the Reader
Experience with Windows administration is helpful. No programming or scripting experience needed.
About the Author
Veteran PowerShell MVPs Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks bring years as successful trainers to this concise, easy-to-follow book.
Table of Contents
Before you begin
Meet PowerShell
Using the help system
Running commands
Working with providers
The pipeline: connecting commands
Adding commands
Objects: data by another name
The pipeline, deeper
Formatting - and why it's done on the right
Filtering and comparisons
A practical interlude
Remote control: one-to-one, and one-to-many
Using Windows Management Instrumentation and CIM
Multitasking with background jobs
Working with many objects, one at a time
Security alert!
Variables: a place to store your stuff
Input and output
Sessions: remote control with less work
You call this scripting?
Improving your parameterized script
Advanced remoting configuration
Using regular expressions to parse text files
Additional random tips, tricks, and techniques
Using someone else's script
Never the end
PowerShell cheat sheet
8Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework
9Murach's ASP.Net 4.6 Web Programming with C# 2015
If you know the basics of C#, you're ready to learn to develop server-side web applications with ASP.NET Web Forms...and that's where this book comes in:
Section 1 is a quick-start course in creating your first ASP.NET Web Forms applications using Visual Studio, with coverage of what HTML5/CSS3 and Bootstrap are doing on the client side...a course that works both for beginners and for experienced web developers who are new to ASP.NET Section 2 gives you the skills you need for every web application...like how to use the server controls, validate user entries, manage state, use master pages, make ASP.NET work with Bootstrap for responsive layouts, and use friendly URLs Section 3 presents the skills you need for developing database-driven web applications at a professional level...including how to use SQL data sources, object data sources, and model binding and the Entity Framework with ASP.NET data controls like GridView, DetailsView, FormView, and ListView Section 4 covers skills that enhance your professionalism...like how to develop secure web pages, authenticate users with ASP.NET Identity, send email, control the use of the Back button, and deploy finished applications Section 5 takes you to the next level by showing you how to use ASP.NET Ajax, how to develop WCF and Web API services, and how ASP.NET MVC programming differs from Web Forms programming To make it easier for you to master ASP.NET, you get complete web applications...including the web forms, the aspx code, and the C# code...that show you how each feature works in context. (You can download these for free from the Murach website.) You get chapter exercises that let you practice your new skills. And you get Murach's distinctive "paired-pages" format that developers like because it saves both training and reference time.
Section 1 is a quick-start course in creating your first ASP.NET Web Forms applications using Visual Studio, with coverage of what HTML5/CSS3 and Bootstrap are doing on the client side...a course that works both for beginners and for experienced web developers who are new to ASP.NET Section 2 gives you the skills you need for every web application...like how to use the server controls, validate user entries, manage state, use master pages, make ASP.NET work with Bootstrap for responsive layouts, and use friendly URLs Section 3 presents the skills you need for developing database-driven web applications at a professional level...including how to use SQL data sources, object data sources, and model binding and the Entity Framework with ASP.NET data controls like GridView, DetailsView, FormView, and ListView Section 4 covers skills that enhance your professionalism...like how to develop secure web pages, authenticate users with ASP.NET Identity, send email, control the use of the Back button, and deploy finished applications Section 5 takes you to the next level by showing you how to use ASP.NET Ajax, how to develop WCF and Web API services, and how ASP.NET MVC programming differs from Web Forms programming To make it easier for you to master ASP.NET, you get complete web applications...including the web forms, the aspx code, and the C# code...that show you how each feature works in context. (You can download these for free from the Murach website.) You get chapter exercises that let you practice your new skills. And you get Murach's distinctive "paired-pages" format that developers like because it saves both training and reference time.
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10Pro ASP.NET Core 3: Develop Cloud-Ready Web Applications Using MVC 3, Blazor, and Razor Pages
Professional developers will produce leaner applications for the ASP.NET Core platform using the guidance in this best-selling book, now in its 8th edition and updated for ASP.NET Core 3. It contains detailed explanations of the ASP.NET Core platform and the application frameworks it supports. This edition puts ASP.NET Core 3 into context and dives deep into the tools and techniques required to build modern, extensible, web applications. New features and capabilities such as MVC 3, Razor Pages, Blazor Server, and Blazor WebAssembly are covered, along with demonstrations of how they are applied.
ASP.NET Core 3 is the latest evolution of Microsoft's ASP.NET web platform and provides a "host-agnostic" framework and a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility.
Best-selling author Adam Freeman has thoroughly revised this market-leading book and explains how to get the most from ASP.NET Core 3. He starts with the nuts-and-bolts topics, teaching you about middleware components, built-in services, request model binding, and more. As you gain knowledge and confidence, he introduces increasingly more complex topics and advanced features, including endpoint routing and dependency injection. He goes in depth to give you the knowledge you need.
This book follows the same format and style as the popular previous editions but brings everything up-to-date for the new ASP.NET Core 3 release and broadens the focus to include all of the ASP.NET Core platform. You will appreciate the fully worked case study of a functioning ASP.NET Core application that you can use as a template for your own projects.
What You Will Learn
Explore the entire ASP.NET Core platform
Apply the new ASP.NET Core 3 features in your developer environment See how to create RESTful web services, web applications, and client-side applications Build on your existing knowledge to get up and running with new programming models quickly and effectively
Who This Book Is For
Web developers with a basic knowledge of web development and C# who want to incorporate the latest improvements and functionality in ASP.NET Core 3 into their own projects
ASP.NET Core 3 is the latest evolution of Microsoft's ASP.NET web platform and provides a "host-agnostic" framework and a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility.
Best-selling author Adam Freeman has thoroughly revised this market-leading book and explains how to get the most from ASP.NET Core 3. He starts with the nuts-and-bolts topics, teaching you about middleware components, built-in services, request model binding, and more. As you gain knowledge and confidence, he introduces increasingly more complex topics and advanced features, including endpoint routing and dependency injection. He goes in depth to give you the knowledge you need.
This book follows the same format and style as the popular previous editions but brings everything up-to-date for the new ASP.NET Core 3 release and broadens the focus to include all of the ASP.NET Core platform. You will appreciate the fully worked case study of a functioning ASP.NET Core application that you can use as a template for your own projects.
What You Will Learn
Explore the entire ASP.NET Core platform
Apply the new ASP.NET Core 3 features in your developer environment See how to create RESTful web services, web applications, and client-side applications Build on your existing knowledge to get up and running with new programming models quickly and effectively
Who This Book Is For
Web developers with a basic knowledge of web development and C# who want to incorporate the latest improvements and functionality in ASP.NET Core 3 into their own projects
11Pro ASP.NET MVC 4
The ASP.NET MVC 4 Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft's ASP.NET web platform. It provides a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET.
ASP.NET MVC 4 contains a number of significant advances over previous versions. New mobile and desktop templates (employing adaptive rendering) are included together with support for jQuery Mobile for the first time. New display modes allow your application to select views based on the browser that's making the request while Code Generation Recipes for Visual Studio help you auto-generate project-specific code for a wide variety of situtations including NuGet support.
In this fourth edition, the core model-view-controller (MVC) architectural concepts are not simply explained or discussed in isolation, but are demonstrated in action. You'll work through an extended tutorial to create a working e-commerce web application that combines ASP.NET MVC with the latest C# language features and unit-testing best practices. By gaining this invaluable, practical experience, you'll discover MVC's strengths and weaknesses for yourself--and put your best-learned theory into practice.
The book's authors, Steve Sanderson and Adam Freeman, have both watched the growth of ASP.NET MVC since its first release. Steve is a well-known blogger on the MVC Framework and a member of the Microsoft Web Platform and Tools team. Adam started designing and building web applications 15 years ago and has been responsible for some of the world's largest and most ambitious projects. You can be sure you are in safe hands.
ASP.NET MVC 4 contains a number of significant advances over previous versions. New mobile and desktop templates (employing adaptive rendering) are included together with support for jQuery Mobile for the first time. New display modes allow your application to select views based on the browser that's making the request while Code Generation Recipes for Visual Studio help you auto-generate project-specific code for a wide variety of situtations including NuGet support.
In this fourth edition, the core model-view-controller (MVC) architectural concepts are not simply explained or discussed in isolation, but are demonstrated in action. You'll work through an extended tutorial to create a working e-commerce web application that combines ASP.NET MVC with the latest C# language features and unit-testing best practices. By gaining this invaluable, practical experience, you'll discover MVC's strengths and weaknesses for yourself--and put your best-learned theory into practice.
The book's authors, Steve Sanderson and Adam Freeman, have both watched the growth of ASP.NET MVC since its first release. Steve is a well-known blogger on the MVC Framework and a member of the Microsoft Web Platform and Tools team. Adam started designing and building web applications 15 years ago and has been responsible for some of the world's largest and most ambitious projects. You can be sure you are in safe hands.
12Dependency Injection in .NET
Summary
Dependency Injection in .NET, winner of the 2013 Jolt Awards for Productivity, presents core DI patterns in plain C#, so you'll fully understand how DI works, covers integration with standard Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET MVC, and teaches you to use DI frameworks like Structure Map, Castle Windsor, and Unity.
About the TechnologyDependency Injection is a great way to reduce tight coupling between software components. Instead of hard-coding dependencies, such as specifying a database driver, you inject a list of services that a component may need. The services are then connected by a third party. This technique enables you to better manage future changes and other complexity in your software.
About this BookDependency Injection in .NET introduces DI and provides a practical guide for applying it in .NET applications. The book presents the core patterns in plain C#, so you'll fully understand how DI works. Then you'll learn to integrate DI with standard Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET MVC, and to use DI frameworks like StructureMap, Castle Windsor, and Unity. By the end of the book, you'll be comfortable applying this powerful technique in your everyday .NET development.
This book is written for C# developers. No previous experience with DI or DI frameworks is required.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
Winner of 2013 Jolt Awards: The Best Books—one of five notable books every serious programmer should read.
What's Inside
Many C#-based examples A catalog of DI patterns and anti-patterns Using both Microsoft and open source DI frameworks
Tabel of Contents
PART 1 PUTTING DEPENDENCY INJECTION ON THE MAP A Dependency Injection tasting menu A comprehensive example DI Containers PART 2 DI CATALOG DI patterns DI anti-patterns DI refactorings PART 3 DIY DI Object Composition Object Lifetime Interception PART 4 DI CONTAINERS Castle Windsor StructureMap Spring.NET Autofac Unity MEF
Dependency Injection in .NET, winner of the 2013 Jolt Awards for Productivity, presents core DI patterns in plain C#, so you'll fully understand how DI works, covers integration with standard Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET MVC, and teaches you to use DI frameworks like Structure Map, Castle Windsor, and Unity.
About the TechnologyDependency Injection is a great way to reduce tight coupling between software components. Instead of hard-coding dependencies, such as specifying a database driver, you inject a list of services that a component may need. The services are then connected by a third party. This technique enables you to better manage future changes and other complexity in your software.
About this BookDependency Injection in .NET introduces DI and provides a practical guide for applying it in .NET applications. The book presents the core patterns in plain C#, so you'll fully understand how DI works. Then you'll learn to integrate DI with standard Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET MVC, and to use DI frameworks like StructureMap, Castle Windsor, and Unity. By the end of the book, you'll be comfortable applying this powerful technique in your everyday .NET development.
This book is written for C# developers. No previous experience with DI or DI frameworks is required.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
Winner of 2013 Jolt Awards: The Best Books—one of five notable books every serious programmer should read.
What's Inside
Many C#-based examples A catalog of DI patterns and anti-patterns Using both Microsoft and open source DI frameworks
Tabel of Contents
PART 1 PUTTING DEPENDENCY INJECTION ON THE MAP A Dependency Injection tasting menu A comprehensive example DI Containers PART 2 DI CATALOG DI patterns DI anti-patterns DI refactorings PART 3 DIY DI Object Composition Object Lifetime Interception PART 4 DI CONTAINERS Castle Windsor StructureMap Spring.NET Autofac Unity MEF
13Pro ASP.NET Core MVC 2
Now in its 7th edition, the best selling book on MVC is updated for ASP.NET Core MVC 2. It contains detailed explanations of the Core MVC functionality which enables developers to produce leaner, cloud optimized and mobile-ready applications for the .NET platform. This book puts ASP.NET Core MVC into context and dives deep into the tools and techniques required to build modern, cloud optimized extensible web applications. All the new MVC features are described in detail and the author explains how best to apply them to both new and existing projects.
The ASP.NET Core MVC Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s ASP.NET web platform, built on a completely new foundation. It represents a fundamental change to how Microsoft constructs and deploys web frameworks and is free of the legacy of earlier technologies such as Web Forms. ASP.NET Core MVC provides a "host agnostic" framework and a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility.
Best-selling author Adam Freeman has thoroughly revised this market-leading book and explains how to get the most from ASP.NET Core MVC. He starts with the nuts-and-bolts and shows you everything through to advanced features, going in-depth to give you the knowledge you need. The book includes a fully worked case study of a functioning web application that readers can use as a template for their own projects.
The ASP.NET Core MVC Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s ASP.NET web platform, built on a completely new foundation. It represents a fundamental change to how Microsoft constructs and deploys web frameworks and is free of the legacy of earlier technologies such as Web Forms. ASP.NET Core MVC provides a "host agnostic" framework and a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility.
Best-selling author Adam Freeman has thoroughly revised this market-leading book and explains how to get the most from ASP.NET Core MVC. He starts with the nuts-and-bolts and shows you everything through to advanced features, going in-depth to give you the knowledge you need. The book includes a fully worked case study of a functioning web application that readers can use as a template for their own projects.
14Murach's ASP.NET Core MVC
If you know the basics of C#, you're ready to learn how to create web applications using Microsoft's powerful technology, ASP.NET Core MVC (Model-View-Controller). And there's no more practical way to do it than with this book.
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15Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches
Summary
Packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what you're learning, Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches is the best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking. Just set aside one hour a day—lunchtime would be perfect—for each self-contained lesson. You'll move quickly through core scripting concepts and start working on four real-world, practical tools. Each chapter adds more functionality, including custom formatting, error handling, parameterized input, input validation, help files and documentation, and more.
About this Book
You don't have to be a software developer to build PowerShell tools. With this book, a PowerShell user is a step away from becoming a proficient toolmaker. Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches is the best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking in just one hour a day. It's packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what you're learning. It's an easy-to-follow guide that covers core scripting concepts using four practical examples. Each chapter builds on the previous one as you add custom formatting, error handling, input validation, help files, and more.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
What's Inside
Build your own administrative tools Learn by doing with hands-on labs Make scripts that feel like native PowerShell cmdlets
This book does not assume you are a programmer. Experience using PowerShell as a command-line interface is helpful but not required.
About the Authors
Don Jones is a PowerShell MVP, speaker, and trainer. Jeffery Hicks is a PowerShell MVP and an independent consultant, trainer, and author. Don and Jeff coauthored Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition (Manning 2012) and PowerShell in Depth (Manning 2013).
Table of Contents
PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO TOOLMAKING
Before you begin PowerShell scripting overview PowerShell's scripting language Simple scripts and functions Scope PART 2 BUILDING AN INVENTORY TOOL Tool design guidelines Advanced functions, part 1 Advanced functions, part 2 Writing help Error handling Debugging techniques Creating custom format views Script and manifest modules Adding database access Interlude: creating a new tool 157 PART 3 ADVANCED TOOLMAKING TECHNIQUES Making tools that make changes
Creating a custom type extension
Creating PowerShell workflows
Troubleshooting pipeline input
Using object hierarchies for complex output Globalizing a function Crossing the line: utilizing the .NET Framework PART 4 CREATING TOOLS FOR DELEGATED ADMINISTRATION Creating a GUI tool, part 1: the GUI Creating a GUI tool, part 2: the code Creating a GUI tool, part 3: the output Creating proxy functions Setting up constrained removing endpoints Never the end
Packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what you're learning, Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches is the best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking. Just set aside one hour a day—lunchtime would be perfect—for each self-contained lesson. You'll move quickly through core scripting concepts and start working on four real-world, practical tools. Each chapter adds more functionality, including custom formatting, error handling, parameterized input, input validation, help files and documentation, and more.
About this Book
You don't have to be a software developer to build PowerShell tools. With this book, a PowerShell user is a step away from becoming a proficient toolmaker. Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches is the best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking in just one hour a day. It's packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what you're learning. It's an easy-to-follow guide that covers core scripting concepts using four practical examples. Each chapter builds on the previous one as you add custom formatting, error handling, input validation, help files, and more.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
What's Inside
Build your own administrative tools Learn by doing with hands-on labs Make scripts that feel like native PowerShell cmdlets
This book does not assume you are a programmer. Experience using PowerShell as a command-line interface is helpful but not required.
About the Authors
Don Jones is a PowerShell MVP, speaker, and trainer. Jeffery Hicks is a PowerShell MVP and an independent consultant, trainer, and author. Don and Jeff coauthored Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition (Manning 2012) and PowerShell in Depth (Manning 2013).
Table of Contents
PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO TOOLMAKING
Before you begin PowerShell scripting overview PowerShell's scripting language Simple scripts and functions Scope PART 2 BUILDING AN INVENTORY TOOL Tool design guidelines Advanced functions, part 1 Advanced functions, part 2 Writing help Error handling Debugging techniques Creating custom format views Script and manifest modules Adding database access Interlude: creating a new tool 157 PART 3 ADVANCED TOOLMAKING TECHNIQUES Making tools that make changes
Creating a custom type extension
Creating PowerShell workflows
Troubleshooting pipeline input
Using object hierarchies for complex output Globalizing a function Crossing the line: utilizing the .NET Framework PART 4 CREATING TOOLS FOR DELEGATED ADMINISTRATION Creating a GUI tool, part 1: the GUI Creating a GUI tool, part 2: the code Creating a GUI tool, part 3: the output Creating proxy functions Setting up constrained removing endpoints Never the end
16Professional ASP.NET Design Patterns
Design patterns are time-tested solutions to recurring problems, letting the designer build programs on solutions that have already proved effective Provides developers with more than a dozen ASP.NET examples showing standard design patterns and how using them helpsbuild a richer understanding of ASP.NET architecture, as well as better ASP.NET applications Builds a solid understanding of ASP.NET architecture that can be used over and over again in many projects Covers ASP.NET code to implement many standard patterns including Model-View-Controller (MVC), ETL, Master-Master Snapshot, Master-Slave-Snapshot, Facade, Singleton, Factory, Single Access Point, Roles, Limited View, observer, page controller, common communication patterns, and more
17Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries
18ASP.NET Core in Action
ASP.NET Core is a re-imagining of the .NET Framework that frees developers from Visual Studio and Windows.
ASP.NET Core in Action is for C# developers without any web development experience who want to get started and productive using ASP.NET Core to build web applications.
ASP.NET Core in Action is for C# developers without any web development experience who want to get started and productive using ASP.NET Core to build web applications.
19Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework
Author Steven Sanderson has seen the ASP.NET MVC Framework mature from the start, so his experience, combined with comprehensive coverage of all the new features, including those in the official MVC development toolkit, offers the clearest understanding of how this exciting new framework can improve your coding efficiency. With this book, you'll gain invaluable up-to-date knowledge of security, deployment, and interoperability challenges.
The ASP.NET MVC 2 Frameworkintroduces a radical high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET 3.5.
In this book, the core model-view-controller (MVC) architectural concepts are not simply explained or discussed in isolation, but are demonstrated in action. You'll work through an extended tutorial to create a working e-commerce web application that combines ASP.NET MVC with C# language features and unit-testing best practices. By gaining this invaluable, practical experience, you'll discover MVC's strengths and weaknesses for yourselfand put your best-learned theory into practice. What you'll learn Gain a solid architectural background to ASP.NET MVC 2, including MVC and REST concepts. Explore the entire ASP.NET MVC Framework and take a detailed look at the official MVC development toolkit. See how it works with test-driven development in action. Capitalize on your existing knowledge quickly and easily through translation and comparison of features in classic ASP.NET to those in ASP.NET MVC. Learn about the latest security and deployment issues, including IIS 7.0. Who this book is for
This book is for web developers with a basic knowledge of ASP.NET and C# who want (or need) to start using the ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework. Table of Contents What's the Big Idea? Your First ASP.NET MVC Application Prerequisites SportsStore: A Real Application SportsStore: Navigation and Shopping Cart SportsStore: Administration and Final Enhancements Overview of ASP.NET MVC Projects URLs and Routing Controllers and Actions Controller Extensibility Views Models and Data Entry User Interface Techniques Ajax and Client Scripting Security and Vulnerability Deployment ASP.NET Platform Features Upgrading and Combining ASP.NET Technologies "
The ASP.NET MVC 2 Frameworkintroduces a radical high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET 3.5.
In this book, the core model-view-controller (MVC) architectural concepts are not simply explained or discussed in isolation, but are demonstrated in action. You'll work through an extended tutorial to create a working e-commerce web application that combines ASP.NET MVC with C# language features and unit-testing best practices. By gaining this invaluable, practical experience, you'll discover MVC's strengths and weaknesses for yourselfand put your best-learned theory into practice. What you'll learn Gain a solid architectural background to ASP.NET MVC 2, including MVC and REST concepts. Explore the entire ASP.NET MVC Framework and take a detailed look at the official MVC development toolkit. See how it works with test-driven development in action. Capitalize on your existing knowledge quickly and easily through translation and comparison of features in classic ASP.NET to those in ASP.NET MVC. Learn about the latest security and deployment issues, including IIS 7.0. Who this book is for
This book is for web developers with a basic knowledge of ASP.NET and C# who want (or need) to start using the ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework. Table of Contents What's the Big Idea? Your First ASP.NET MVC Application Prerequisites SportsStore: A Real Application SportsStore: Navigation and Shopping Cart SportsStore: Administration and Final Enhancements Overview of ASP.NET MVC Projects URLs and Routing Controllers and Actions Controller Extensibility Views Models and Data Entry User Interface Techniques Ajax and Client Scripting Security and Vulnerability Deployment ASP.NET Platform Features Upgrading and Combining ASP.NET Technologies "
20Essential Angular for ASP.NET Core MVC 3: A Practical Guide to Successfully Using Both in Your Projects
Combine the strengths of Angular, the leading framework for developing complex client-side applications, and ASP.NET Core MVC 3, the latest evolution of Microsoft's framework for server-side applications. This new edition offers updated Angular, ASP.NET Core 3, Entity Framework Core 3 examples, an all-new chapter on interoperability with Blazor, and more!
Best-selling author Adam Freeman brings together these two key technologies and explains how to use ASP.NET Core MVC 3 to provide back-end services for Angular applications. This fast-paced and practical guide starts from the nuts and bolts and gives you the knowledge you need to combine Angular and ASP.NET Core MVC 3 in your projects.
Each topic is covered clearly and concisely and is packed with the essential details you need to learn to be truly effective.
What You Will Learn
Gain a solid understanding of how ASP.NET Core MVC 3 and Angular can work together Utilize both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code to develop Angular/ASP.NET Core MVC projects Create ASP.NET Core RESTful web services to support Angular applications Expose data from Entity Framework Core to Angular applications Use ASP.NET Core Identity to provide security services to Angular applications Understand how Angular and Blazor applications can work together Who This Book Is For
This book is for developers with knowledge of ASP.NET Core MVC who are introducing Angular into their projects.
Best-selling author Adam Freeman brings together these two key technologies and explains how to use ASP.NET Core MVC 3 to provide back-end services for Angular applications. This fast-paced and practical guide starts from the nuts and bolts and gives you the knowledge you need to combine Angular and ASP.NET Core MVC 3 in your projects.
Each topic is covered clearly and concisely and is packed with the essential details you need to learn to be truly effective.
What You Will Learn
Gain a solid understanding of how ASP.NET Core MVC 3 and Angular can work together Utilize both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code to develop Angular/ASP.NET Core MVC projects Create ASP.NET Core RESTful web services to support Angular applications Expose data from Entity Framework Core to Angular applications Use ASP.NET Core Identity to provide security services to Angular applications Understand how Angular and Blazor applications can work together Who This Book Is For
This book is for developers with knowledge of ASP.NET Core MVC who are introducing Angular into their projects.
21C# 6.0 and the .Net 4.6 Framework
This new 7th edition of Pro C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Platform has been completely revised and rewritten to reflect the latest changes to the C# language specification and new advances in the .NET Framework. You'll find new chapters covering all the important new features that make .NET 4.6 the most comprehensive release yet, including:
A Refined ADO.NET Entity Framework Programming Model
Numerous IDE and MVVM Enhancements for WPF Desktop Development
Numerous updates to the ASP.NET Web APIs
This comes on top of award winning coverage of core C# features, both old and new, that have made the previous editions of this book so popular. Readers will gain a solid foundation of object-oriented development techniques, attributes and reflection, generics and collections as well as numerous advanced topics not found in other texts (such as CIL opcodes and emitting dynamic assemblies).
The mission of this book is to provide you with a comprehensive foundation in the C# programming language and the core aspects of the .NET platform plus overviews of technologies built on top of C# and .NET (ADO.NET and Entity Framework, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ASP.NET (WebForms, MVC, WebAPI).). Once you digest the information presented in these chapters, you'll be in a perfect position to apply this knowledge to your specific programming assignments, and you'll be well equipped to explore the .NET universe on your own terms.
What You Will Learn:
Be the first to understand the .NET 4.6 platform and C# 6.
Discover the ins and outs of the leading .NET technology.
Learn from an award-winning author who has been teaching the .NET world since version 1.0.
Find complete coverage of XAML, .NET 4.6 and Visual Studio 2015 together with discussion of the new Windows Runtime.
A Refined ADO.NET Entity Framework Programming Model
Numerous IDE and MVVM Enhancements for WPF Desktop Development
Numerous updates to the ASP.NET Web APIs
This comes on top of award winning coverage of core C# features, both old and new, that have made the previous editions of this book so popular. Readers will gain a solid foundation of object-oriented development techniques, attributes and reflection, generics and collections as well as numerous advanced topics not found in other texts (such as CIL opcodes and emitting dynamic assemblies).
The mission of this book is to provide you with a comprehensive foundation in the C# programming language and the core aspects of the .NET platform plus overviews of technologies built on top of C# and .NET (ADO.NET and Entity Framework, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ASP.NET (WebForms, MVC, WebAPI).). Once you digest the information presented in these chapters, you'll be in a perfect position to apply this knowledge to your specific programming assignments, and you'll be well equipped to explore the .NET universe on your own terms.
What You Will Learn:
Be the first to understand the .NET 4.6 platform and C# 6.
Discover the ins and outs of the leading .NET technology.
Learn from an award-winning author who has been teaching the .NET world since version 1.0.
Find complete coverage of XAML, .NET 4.6 and Visual Studio 2015 together with discussion of the new Windows Runtime.
22Learn F#
F# is a mature, open-source functional-first language that's rapidly growing in popularity both inside and outside the .NET ecosystem. And while F# runs on the .NET framework and supports OO features, its functional nature is what's driving interest. F# leads to quicker development time and a lower total cost of ownership. Its powerful feature set allows developers to more succinctly express their intent, and encourages best practices - leading to higher quality deliverables in less time. Developers find working in F# more enjoyable and rewarding; their managers appreciate the improved quality and speed of deliverables!
Learn F# is a practical guide for experienced C# and .NET developers that teaches the F# language, tools, techniques, and practices that can be applied in common scenarios. You'll start with F# language basics and best development practices. You'll also learn the core set of FP techniques in F#, and why to use them. Then you'll discover how to write idiomatic F# code on the .NET framework in Visual Studio, and what tools to use to give you the best experience within VS. The second part of the book shows you how to apply F# in larger, real world scenarios, things like interop to C# /VB projects, SQL database access, web programming, and unit testing. By the end of the book, you'll be able to use F# in your day-to-day development, and know how and where to deepen your knowledge.
Learn F# is a practical guide for experienced C# and .NET developers that teaches the F# language, tools, techniques, and practices that can be applied in common scenarios. You'll start with F# language basics and best development practices. You'll also learn the core set of FP techniques in F#, and why to use them. Then you'll discover how to write idiomatic F# code on the .NET framework in Visual Studio, and what tools to use to give you the best experience within VS. The second part of the book shows you how to apply F# in larger, real world scenarios, things like interop to C# /VB projects, SQL database access, web programming, and unit testing. By the end of the book, you'll be able to use F# in your day-to-day development, and know how and where to deepen your knowledge.
23Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition
24Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework
Steven Sanderson has seen the ASP.NET MVC framework mature from the start, so his experience, combined with comprehensive coverage of all its features, including those in the official MVC development toolkit, offers the clearest understanding of how this exciting framework could improve your coding efficiency--and you'll gain invaluable awareness of security, deployment, and interoperability challenges.
The ASP.NET MVC Framework is the evolution of Microsoft's ASP.NET web platform. It introduced a radical high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET 3.5.
An integral benefit of this book is that the core Model-View-Controller architectural concepts are not simply explained or discussed in isolation, but demonstrated in action. You'll work through an extended tutorial to create a working e-commerce web application that combines ASP.NET MVC with the latest C# 3.0 language features and unit-testing best practices. By gaining this invaluable, practical experience, you can discover MVCs strengths and weaknesses for yourself--and put your best learned theory into practice.
The ASP.NET MVC Framework is the evolution of Microsoft's ASP.NET web platform. It introduced a radical high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET 3.5.
An integral benefit of this book is that the core Model-View-Controller architectural concepts are not simply explained or discussed in isolation, but demonstrated in action. You'll work through an extended tutorial to create a working e-commerce web application that combines ASP.NET MVC with the latest C# 3.0 language features and unit-testing best practices. By gaining this invaluable, practical experience, you can discover MVCs strengths and weaknesses for yourself--and put your best learned theory into practice.
25Beginning ASP.NET 4: In C# and VB
This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to build rich and interactive web sites that run on the Microsoft platform. With the knowledge you gain from this book, you create a great foundation to build any type of web site, ranging from simple hobby-related web sites to sites you may be creating for commercial purposes. Anyone new to web programming should be able to follow along because no prior background in web development is assumed although it helps if you do have a basic understanding of HTML and the web in general. The book starts at the very beginning of web development by showing you how to obtain and install Visual Web Developer. The chapters that follow gradually introduce you to new technologies, building on top of the knowledge gained in the previous chapters.
Do you have a strong preference for Visual Basic over C# or the other way around? Or do you think both languages are equally cool? Or maybe you haven't made up your mind yet and want to learn both languages? Either way, you'll like this book because all code examples are presented in both languages!
Even if you have some experience with prior versions of ASP.NET, you may gain a lot from this book. Although many concepts from previous versions are brought forward into ASP.NET 4, you'll discover there's a lot of new stuff to be found in this book, including an introduction to the ADO.NET Entity Framework, the inclusion of jQuery, ASP.NET AJAX, the many changes to the ASP.NET 4 Framework, and much more.
This book teaches you how to create a feature-rich, data-driven, and interactive web site called Planet Wrox. Although this is quite a mouthful, you'll find that with Visual Web Developer 2010, developing such a web site isn't as hard as it seems. You'll see the entire process of building a web site, from installing Visual Web Developer 2010 in Chapter 1 all the way up to putting your web application on a live server in Chapter 19. The book is divided into 19 chapters, each dealing with a specific subject.
Chapter 1, "Getting Started with ASP.NET 4" shows you how to obtain and install Visual Web Developer 2010. You'll get instructions for downloading and installing the free edition of Visual Web Developer 2010, called the Express edition. You are also introduced to HTML, the language behind every web page. The chapter closes with an overview of the customization options that Visual Web Developer gives you.
Chapter 2, "Building an ASP.NET Web Site" shows you how to create a new web site and how to add new elements like pages to it. Besides learning how to create a well-structured site, you also see how to use the numerous tools in Visual Web Developer to create HTML and ASP.NET pages.
Chapter 3, "Designing Your Web Pages." Visual Web Developer comes with a host of tools that allow you to create well-designed and attractive web pages. In this chapter, you see how to make good use of these tools. Additionally, you learn about CSS, the language that is used to format web pages.
Chapter 4, "Working with ASP.NET Server Controls." ASP.NET Server Controls are one of the most important concepts in ASP.NET. They allow you to create complex and feature-rich web sites with very little code. This chapter introduces you to the large number of server controls that are available, explains what they are used for, and shows you how to use them.
Chapter 5, "Programming Your ASP.NET Web Pages." Although the built-in CSS tools and the ASP.NET Server Controls can get you a long way in creating web pages, you are likely to use a programming language to enhance your pages. This chapter serves as an introduction to programming with a strong focus on programming web pages. Best of all: all the examples you see in this chapter (and the rest of the book) are in both Visual Basic and C#, so you can choose the language you like best.
Chapter 6, "Creating Consistent Looking Web Sites." ASP.NET helps you create consistent-looking pages through the use of master pages, which allow you to define the global look and feel of a page. Skins and themes help you to centralize the looks of controls and other visual elements in your site. You also see how to create a base page that helps to centralize programming code that you need on all pages in your site.
Chapter 7, "Navigation." To help your visitors find their way around your site, ASP.NET comes with a number of navigation controls. These controls are used to build the navigation structure of your site. They can be connected to your site's central site map that defines the pages in your web site. You also learn how to programmatically send users from one page to another.
Chapter 8, "User Controls." User controls are reusable page fragments that can be used in multiple web pages. As such, they are great for repeating content such as menus, banners, and so on. In this chapter, you learn how to create and use user controls and enhance them with some programmatic intelligence.
Chapter 9, "Validating User Input." A large part of interactivity in your site is defined by the input of your users. This chapter shows you how to accept, validate, and process user input using ASP.NET Server Controls. Additionally, you see how to send e-mail from your ASP.NET web application and how to read from text files.
Chapter 10, "ASP.NET AJAX." Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX allows you to create good-looking, flicker-free web pages that close the gap between traditional desktop applications and web applications. In this chapter you learn how to use the built-in Ajax features to enhance the presence of your web pages, resulting in a smoother interaction with the web site.
Chapter 11, "jQuery." jQuery is a popular, open source and cross-browser JavaScript library designed to make it easier to interact with web pages in the client's browser. In this chapter you learn the basics of jQuery and see how to add rich visual effects and animations to your web pages.
Chapter 12, "Introducing Databases." Understanding how to use a database is critical to building web sites, as most modern web sites require the use of a database. You'll learn the basics of SQL, the query language that allows you to access and alter data in a database. In addition, you are introduced to the database tools found in Visual Web Developer that help you create and manage your SQL Server databases.
Chapter 13, "Displaying and Updating Data." Building on the knowledge you gained in the previous chapter, this chapter shows you how to use the ASP.NET data-bound and data source controls to create a rich interface that enables your users to interact with the data in the database that these controls target.
Chapter 14, "LINQ and the ADO.NET Entity Framework." LINQ is Microsoft's solution for accessing objects, databases, XML, and more. The ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF) is Microsoft's new technology for database access. This chapter shows you what LINQ is all about, how to use the visual EF designer built into Visual Studio, and how to write LINQ to EF queries to get data in and out of your SQL Server database.
Chapter 15, "Working with Data--Advanced Topics." While earlier chapters focused mostly on the technical foundations of working with data, this chapter looks at the same topic from a front-end perspective. You see how to change the visual appearance of your data through the use of control styles. You also see how to interact with the data-bound controls and how to speed up your application by keeping a local copy of frequently accessed data.
Chapter 16, "Security in Your ASP.NET 4 Web Site." Although presented quite late in the book, security is a first-class, important topic. This chapter shows you how to make use of the built-in ASP.NET features related to security. You learn about a number of application services that facilitate security. You also learn how to let users sign up for an account on your web site, how to distinguish between anonymous and logged-on users, and how to manage the users in your system.
Chapter 17, "Personalizing Web Sites." Building on the security features introduced in Chapter 16, this chapter shows you how to create personalized web pages with content targeted at individual users. You see how to configure and use ASP.NET Profile that enables you to store personalized data for known and anonymous visitors.
Chapter 18, "Exception Handling, Debugging, and Tracing." In order to understand, improve, and fix the code you write for your ASP.NET web pages you need good debugging tools. Visual Web Developer ships with great debugging support that enables you to diagnose the state of your application at run time, helping you find and fix problems before your users do.
Chapter 19, "Deploying Your Web Site." By the end of the book, you should have a web site that is ready to be shown to the world. But how exactly do you do that? What are the things you need to know and understand to put your web site out in the wild? This chapter gives the answers and provides you with a good look at configuring different production systems in order to run your final web site.
Do you have a strong preference for Visual Basic over C# or the other way around? Or do you think both languages are equally cool? Or maybe you haven't made up your mind yet and want to learn both languages? Either way, you'll like this book because all code examples are presented in both languages!
Even if you have some experience with prior versions of ASP.NET, you may gain a lot from this book. Although many concepts from previous versions are brought forward into ASP.NET 4, you'll discover there's a lot of new stuff to be found in this book, including an introduction to the ADO.NET Entity Framework, the inclusion of jQuery, ASP.NET AJAX, the many changes to the ASP.NET 4 Framework, and much more.
This book teaches you how to create a feature-rich, data-driven, and interactive web site called Planet Wrox. Although this is quite a mouthful, you'll find that with Visual Web Developer 2010, developing such a web site isn't as hard as it seems. You'll see the entire process of building a web site, from installing Visual Web Developer 2010 in Chapter 1 all the way up to putting your web application on a live server in Chapter 19. The book is divided into 19 chapters, each dealing with a specific subject.
Chapter 1, "Getting Started with ASP.NET 4" shows you how to obtain and install Visual Web Developer 2010. You'll get instructions for downloading and installing the free edition of Visual Web Developer 2010, called the Express edition. You are also introduced to HTML, the language behind every web page. The chapter closes with an overview of the customization options that Visual Web Developer gives you.
Chapter 2, "Building an ASP.NET Web Site" shows you how to create a new web site and how to add new elements like pages to it. Besides learning how to create a well-structured site, you also see how to use the numerous tools in Visual Web Developer to create HTML and ASP.NET pages.
Chapter 3, "Designing Your Web Pages." Visual Web Developer comes with a host of tools that allow you to create well-designed and attractive web pages. In this chapter, you see how to make good use of these tools. Additionally, you learn about CSS, the language that is used to format web pages.
Chapter 4, "Working with ASP.NET Server Controls." ASP.NET Server Controls are one of the most important concepts in ASP.NET. They allow you to create complex and feature-rich web sites with very little code. This chapter introduces you to the large number of server controls that are available, explains what they are used for, and shows you how to use them.
Chapter 5, "Programming Your ASP.NET Web Pages." Although the built-in CSS tools and the ASP.NET Server Controls can get you a long way in creating web pages, you are likely to use a programming language to enhance your pages. This chapter serves as an introduction to programming with a strong focus on programming web pages. Best of all: all the examples you see in this chapter (and the rest of the book) are in both Visual Basic and C#, so you can choose the language you like best.
Chapter 6, "Creating Consistent Looking Web Sites." ASP.NET helps you create consistent-looking pages through the use of master pages, which allow you to define the global look and feel of a page. Skins and themes help you to centralize the looks of controls and other visual elements in your site. You also see how to create a base page that helps to centralize programming code that you need on all pages in your site.
Chapter 7, "Navigation." To help your visitors find their way around your site, ASP.NET comes with a number of navigation controls. These controls are used to build the navigation structure of your site. They can be connected to your site's central site map that defines the pages in your web site. You also learn how to programmatically send users from one page to another.
Chapter 8, "User Controls." User controls are reusable page fragments that can be used in multiple web pages. As such, they are great for repeating content such as menus, banners, and so on. In this chapter, you learn how to create and use user controls and enhance them with some programmatic intelligence.
Chapter 9, "Validating User Input." A large part of interactivity in your site is defined by the input of your users. This chapter shows you how to accept, validate, and process user input using ASP.NET Server Controls. Additionally, you see how to send e-mail from your ASP.NET web application and how to read from text files.
Chapter 10, "ASP.NET AJAX." Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX allows you to create good-looking, flicker-free web pages that close the gap between traditional desktop applications and web applications. In this chapter you learn how to use the built-in Ajax features to enhance the presence of your web pages, resulting in a smoother interaction with the web site.
Chapter 11, "jQuery." jQuery is a popular, open source and cross-browser JavaScript library designed to make it easier to interact with web pages in the client's browser. In this chapter you learn the basics of jQuery and see how to add rich visual effects and animations to your web pages.
Chapter 12, "Introducing Databases." Understanding how to use a database is critical to building web sites, as most modern web sites require the use of a database. You'll learn the basics of SQL, the query language that allows you to access and alter data in a database. In addition, you are introduced to the database tools found in Visual Web Developer that help you create and manage your SQL Server databases.
Chapter 13, "Displaying and Updating Data." Building on the knowledge you gained in the previous chapter, this chapter shows you how to use the ASP.NET data-bound and data source controls to create a rich interface that enables your users to interact with the data in the database that these controls target.
Chapter 14, "LINQ and the ADO.NET Entity Framework." LINQ is Microsoft's solution for accessing objects, databases, XML, and more. The ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF) is Microsoft's new technology for database access. This chapter shows you what LINQ is all about, how to use the visual EF designer built into Visual Studio, and how to write LINQ to EF queries to get data in and out of your SQL Server database.
Chapter 15, "Working with Data--Advanced Topics." While earlier chapters focused mostly on the technical foundations of working with data, this chapter looks at the same topic from a front-end perspective. You see how to change the visual appearance of your data through the use of control styles. You also see how to interact with the data-bound controls and how to speed up your application by keeping a local copy of frequently accessed data.
Chapter 16, "Security in Your ASP.NET 4 Web Site." Although presented quite late in the book, security is a first-class, important topic. This chapter shows you how to make use of the built-in ASP.NET features related to security. You learn about a number of application services that facilitate security. You also learn how to let users sign up for an account on your web site, how to distinguish between anonymous and logged-on users, and how to manage the users in your system.
Chapter 17, "Personalizing Web Sites." Building on the security features introduced in Chapter 16, this chapter shows you how to create personalized web pages with content targeted at individual users. You see how to configure and use ASP.NET Profile that enables you to store personalized data for known and anonymous visitors.
Chapter 18, "Exception Handling, Debugging, and Tracing." In order to understand, improve, and fix the code you write for your ASP.NET web pages you need good debugging tools. Visual Web Developer ships with great debugging support that enables you to diagnose the state of your application at run time, helping you find and fix problems before your users do.
Chapter 19, "Deploying Your Web Site." By the end of the book, you should have a web site that is ready to be shown to the world. But how exactly do you do that? What are the things you need to know and understand to put your web site out in the wild? This chapter gives the answers and provides you with a good look at configuring different production systems in order to run your final web site.
26Microsoft Visual C# 2013 Step by Step
Your hands-on guide to Visual C# fundamentals
Expand your expertise—and teach yourself the fundamentals of Microsoft Visual C# 2013. If you have previous programming experience but are new to Visual C# 2013, this tutorial delivers the step-by-step guidance and coding exercises you need to master core topics and techniques.
Discover how to:
Create and debug C# applications in Visual Studio 2013
Work with variables, identifiers, statements, operators, and methods
Create interfaces and define abstract classes
Write robust code that can catch and handle exceptions
Display and edit data using data binding with Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework
Respond to user input and touchscreen gestures
Handle events arising from multiple sources
Develop your first Windows 8.1 apps
Expand your expertise—and teach yourself the fundamentals of Microsoft Visual C# 2013. If you have previous programming experience but are new to Visual C# 2013, this tutorial delivers the step-by-step guidance and coding exercises you need to master core topics and techniques.
Discover how to:
Create and debug C# applications in Visual Studio 2013
Work with variables, identifiers, statements, operators, and methods
Create interfaces and define abstract classes
Write robust code that can catch and handle exceptions
Display and edit data using data binding with Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework
Respond to user input and touchscreen gestures
Handle events arising from multiple sources
Develop your first Windows 8.1 apps
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27Windows Powershell in Action, Third Edition
Windows PowerShell transformed the way administrators and developers interact with Windows. PowerShell, an elegant dynamic language from Microsoft, lets its users script administrative tasks and control Windows from the command line. Because it's a full-featured, first-class Windows programming language, programmers and power- users can now do things in a shell that previously required VB, VBScript, or C#.
"Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition" is a completely revised edition of the bestselling book on PowerShell. It keeps the same crystal-clear introduction to PowerShell as the last edition and adds extensive coverage of v3, v4, and v5 features such as PowerShell Workflows, Desired State Configuration, PowerShell classes and the PowerShell APIs, new error handling and debugging features. It includes full chapters on these topics and also covers new language elements and operators, PowerShell remoting, CIM, events, working with data such as XML and flat files, The Second Edition's coverage of batch scripting and string processing, COM, WMI, and .NET have all been significantly revised and expanded. The book includes many popular usage scenarios and is rich in interesting examples that will spark the reader's imagination.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
"Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition" is a completely revised edition of the bestselling book on PowerShell. It keeps the same crystal-clear introduction to PowerShell as the last edition and adds extensive coverage of v3, v4, and v5 features such as PowerShell Workflows, Desired State Configuration, PowerShell classes and the PowerShell APIs, new error handling and debugging features. It includes full chapters on these topics and also covers new language elements and operators, PowerShell remoting, CIM, events, working with data such as XML and flat files, The Second Edition's coverage of batch scripting and string processing, COM, WMI, and .NET have all been significantly revised and expanded. The book includes many popular usage scenarios and is rich in interesting examples that will spark the reader's imagination.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
28Programming ASP.NET Core
The complete, pragmatic guide to building high-value solutions with ASP.NET Core Programming ASP.NET Core is the definitive guide to practical web-based application development with Microsoft's new ASP.NET Core framework. Microsoft MVP Dino Esposito introduces proven techniques and well-crafted example code for solving real problems with ASP.NET Core. Step by step, he guides you through using all key ASP.NET Core technologies, including MVC for HTML generation, .NET Core, EF Core, ASP.NET Identity, dependency injection, and much more. Esposito thoroughly covers ASP.NET Core's cross-platform capabilities and what's changed from older ASP.NET versions, but he doesn't stop there: he offers a complete learning path for every developer who wants to build production solutions, including mobile-specific solutions. Microsoft MVP Dino Esposito shows how to: - Create new projects and understand their structure - Set up and use the familiar MVC application model in ASP.NET Core - Write controller class code to govern all stages of request processing - Serve HTML from controllers, or directly via Razor Pages - Master the Razor language for quickly defining the layout of HTML views - Manage cross-cutting concerns such as global configuration data, error and exception handling, controller class design, and dependency injection - Secure applications with user authentication and ASP.NET Core's policy-based user authorization API - Design for efficient data access, and choose the right option for reading and writing data - Build ASP.NET Core Web APIs that return JSON, XML, or other data - Use data binding to programmatically update visual components with fresh information - Build device-friendly web views for iOS and Android - Explore the radically new ASP.NET Core runtime environment and Dependency Injection (DI) infrastructure
29Developing More-Secure Microsoft® ASP.NET 2.0 Applications
Build your expertise for developing more-secure applications with ASP.NET 2.0. A leading security expert delivers best practices, pragmatic instruction, and extensive code samples in Microsoft Visual C# to help you develop Web applications that are more robust, more reliable, and more resistant to attack.
Discover how to:
Harden a Web server, operating system, communication protocol, and ASP.NET Validate input data with white listing, regular expressions, sandboxing, and other techniques Understand design and security implications of various cryptography approaches Integrate with Microsoft Windows security features such as impersonation, delegation and protocol transition Implement Web farm, single sign-on, and mixed-mode authentication Use provider-based features for user and role management and authentication Trace attacks with error-handling, logging, and instrumentation Lock down your application with partial trust PLUS—Get code samples on the Web
Discover how to:
Harden a Web server, operating system, communication protocol, and ASP.NET Validate input data with white listing, regular expressions, sandboxing, and other techniques Understand design and security implications of various cryptography approaches Integrate with Microsoft Windows security features such as impersonation, delegation and protocol transition Implement Web farm, single sign-on, and mixed-mode authentication Use provider-based features for user and role management and authentication Trace attacks with error-handling, logging, and instrumentation Lock down your application with partial trust PLUS—Get code samples on the Web
30Professional ASP.NET MVC 5
ASP.NET MVC insiders cover the latest updates to the technology in this popular Wrox reference
MVC 5 is the newest update to the popular Microsoft technology that enables you to build dynamic, data-driven websites. Like previous versions, this guide shows you step-by-step techniques on using MVC to best advantage, with plenty of practical tutorials to illustrate the concepts. It covers controllers, views, and models; forms and HTML helpers; data annotation and validation; membership, authorization, and security.
MVC 5, the latest version of MVC, adds sophisticated features such as single page applications, mobile optimization, and adaptive rendering A team of top Microsoft MVP experts, along with visionaries in the field, provide practical advice on basic and advanced MVC topics Covers controllers, views, models, forms, data annotations, authorization and security, Ajax, routing, ASP.NET web API, dependency injection, unit testing, real-world application, and much more Professional ASP.NET MVC 5 is the comprehensive resource you need to make the best use of the updated Model-View-Controller technology.
MVC 5 is the newest update to the popular Microsoft technology that enables you to build dynamic, data-driven websites. Like previous versions, this guide shows you step-by-step techniques on using MVC to best advantage, with plenty of practical tutorials to illustrate the concepts. It covers controllers, views, and models; forms and HTML helpers; data annotation and validation; membership, authorization, and security.
MVC 5, the latest version of MVC, adds sophisticated features such as single page applications, mobile optimization, and adaptive rendering A team of top Microsoft MVP experts, along with visionaries in the field, provide practical advice on basic and advanced MVC topics Covers controllers, views, models, forms, data annotations, authorization and security, Ajax, routing, ASP.NET web API, dependency injection, unit testing, real-world application, and much more Professional ASP.NET MVC 5 is the comprehensive resource you need to make the best use of the updated Model-View-Controller technology.
31Beginning ASP.NET Security
Programmers: protect and defend your Web apps against attack! You may know ASP.NET, but if you don't understand how to secure your applications, you need this book. This vital guide explores the often-overlooked topic of teaching programmers how to design ASP.NET Web applications so as to prevent online thefts and security breaches.
You'll start with a thorough look at ASP.NET 3.5 basics and see happens when you don't implement security, including some amazing examples. The book then delves into the development of a Web application, walking you through the vulnerable points at every phase. Learn to factor security in from the ground up, discover a wealth of tips and industry best practices, and explore code libraries and more resources provided by Microsoft and others.
Shows you step by step how to implement the very latest security techniques Reveals the secrets of secret-keeping--encryption, hashing, and not leaking information to begin with Delves into authentication, authorizing, and securing sessions Explains how to secure Web servers and Web services, including WCF and ASMX Walks you through threat modeling, so you can anticipate problems Offers best practices, techniques, and industry trends you can put to use right away Defend and secure your ASP.NET 3.5 framework Web sites with this must-have guide.
You'll start with a thorough look at ASP.NET 3.5 basics and see happens when you don't implement security, including some amazing examples. The book then delves into the development of a Web application, walking you through the vulnerable points at every phase. Learn to factor security in from the ground up, discover a wealth of tips and industry best practices, and explore code libraries and more resources provided by Microsoft and others.
Shows you step by step how to implement the very latest security techniques Reveals the secrets of secret-keeping--encryption, hashing, and not leaking information to begin with Delves into authentication, authorizing, and securing sessions Explains how to secure Web servers and Web services, including WCF and ASMX Walks you through threat modeling, so you can anticipate problems Offers best practices, techniques, and industry trends you can put to use right away Defend and secure your ASP.NET 3.5 framework Web sites with this must-have guide.
32Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise
Make the right architectural decisions up front—and improve the quality and reliability of your results. Led by two enterprise programming experts, you’ll learn how to apply the patterns and techniques that help control project complexity—and make systems easier to build, support, and upgrade—right from the start.
Get pragmatic architectural guidance on how to:
Build testability, maintainability, and security into your system early in the design Expose business logic through a service-oriented interface Choose the best pattern for organizing business logic and behavior Review and apply the patterns for separating the UI and presentation logic Delve deep into the patterns and practices for the data access layer Tackle the impedance mismatch between objects and data Minimize development effort and avoid over-engineering—and deliver more robust results
Get code samples on the Web.
Get pragmatic architectural guidance on how to:
Build testability, maintainability, and security into your system early in the design Expose business logic through a service-oriented interface Choose the best pattern for organizing business logic and behavior Review and apply the patterns for separating the UI and presentation logic Delve deep into the patterns and practices for the data access layer Tackle the impedance mismatch between objects and data Minimize development effort and avoid over-engineering—and deliver more robust results
Get code samples on the Web.
33Ultra-Fast ASP.NET: Building Ultra-Fast and Ultra-Scalable Websites Using ASP.NET and SQL Server
Introduction The time that I spent working at Microsoft was an unexpectedly transforming experience. The first half of my career regularly put me and the companies I worked with in competition with Microsoft, and I was often surrounded by anti-Microsoft stories and propaganda. However, when I heard about . NET, I decided I wanted to know more and that the best way to do that was to learn at the source. As I got into the technology and the company, what I found was more than a little surprising. The . NET Framework, the C# language, ASP. NET, and SQL Server are sophisticated and technically beautiful achievements. After working with Java for several years, which also has a definite elegance, it was refreshing and empowering to use a well-integrated platform, where everything (mostly) worked together seamlessly. At a technical level, I found that I usually agreed with the decisions and tradeoffs the platform developers made, and that the resulting system helped to substantially improve my productivity as a developer. I also found the Microsoft engineering teams to be wonderfully bright, creative, and-perhaps most surprising of all to me as a former outsider-sincerely interested in solving customer problems. My enthusiasm for the technology helped carry me into a customer-facing position as a solutions architect at the Microsoft Technology Center in Silicon Valley. Being exposed in-depth to customer issues was another eye-opening experience.
34Pro ASP.Net Web API Security: Robust Security for ASP.Net MVC Applications
ASP.NET Web API is a key part of ASP.NET MVC 4 and the platform of choice for building RESTful services that can be accessed by a wide range of devices. Everything from JavaScript libraries to RIA plugins, RFID readers to smart phones can consume your services using platform-agnostic HTTP With such wide accessibility, securingyour code effectively needs to be a top priority. You will quickly find that the WCF security protocols you?re familiar with from .NET (WS-* and similar)are less suitable than they once were in this new environment; proving themselves cumbersome and limited in terms of the standards they can work with. Fortunately, ASP.NET Web API provides asimple robust security solution of its own that fits neatly within the ASP.NET MVC programming model and secures your code without the need for SOAP meaningthat there is no limit to the range of devices that it can work with ? if it can understand HTTP then it can be secured by Web API. These SOAP-less security techniques are the focus of this book. What you?ll learn Basic and advanced HTTP and security concepts needed to effectively secure ASP.NET Web API applications Knowledge-factor based basic, digest and Windows authenticaton schemes Ownership factors such as pre-shared keys, client X.509 certificates, JWT (both JWS and JWE) and SWT as OAuth 2.0 bearer token, SAML token from AD FS Combinations of the previous two techniques - called two-factor security - to provide further enhanced security. Who this book is for
No prior experience of .NET-security is needed to read this book. All security related concepts will be introduced from first-principles and developed to the point where you can use them confidently in a professional environment. A goodworking knowledge and experience of C# and the .NET framework are the onlypre-requisites to benefit from this book.
No prior experience of .NET-security is needed to read this book. All security related concepts will be introduced from first-principles and developed to the point where you can use them confidently in a professional environment. A goodworking knowledge and experience of C# and the .NET framework are the onlypre-requisites to benefit from this book.
35Professional C# 7 and .Net Core 2.0
The professional's guide to C# 7, with expert guidance on the newest features
Professional C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 provides experienced programmers with the information they need to work effectively with the world's leading programming language. The latest C# update added many new features that help you get more done in less time, and this book is your ideal guide for getting up to speed quickly. C# 7 focuses on data consumption, code simplification, and performance, with new support for local functions, tuple types, record types, pattern matching, non-nullable reference types, immutable types, and better support for variables. Improvements to Visual Studio will bring significant changes to the way C# developers interact with the space, bringing .NET to non-Microsoft platforms and incorporating tools from other platforms like Docker, Gulp, and NPM. Guided by a leading .NET expert and steeped in real-world practicality, this guide is designed to get you up to date and back to work.
With Microsoft speeding up its release cadence while offering more significant improvement with each update, it has never been more important to get a handle on new tools and features quickly. This book is designed to do just that, and more--everything you need to know about C# is right here, in the single-volume resource on every developer's shelf.
Tour the many new and enhanced features packed into C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 Learn how the latest Visual Studio update makes developers' jobs easier Streamline your workflow with a new focus on code simplification and performance enhancement Delve into improvements made for localization, networking, diagnostics, deployments, and more Whether you're entirely new to C# or just transitioning to C# 7, having a solid grasp of the latest features allows you to exploit the language's full functionality to create robust, high -quality apps. Professional C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 is the one-stop guide to everything you need to know.
Professional C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 provides experienced programmers with the information they need to work effectively with the world's leading programming language. The latest C# update added many new features that help you get more done in less time, and this book is your ideal guide for getting up to speed quickly. C# 7 focuses on data consumption, code simplification, and performance, with new support for local functions, tuple types, record types, pattern matching, non-nullable reference types, immutable types, and better support for variables. Improvements to Visual Studio will bring significant changes to the way C# developers interact with the space, bringing .NET to non-Microsoft platforms and incorporating tools from other platforms like Docker, Gulp, and NPM. Guided by a leading .NET expert and steeped in real-world practicality, this guide is designed to get you up to date and back to work.
With Microsoft speeding up its release cadence while offering more significant improvement with each update, it has never been more important to get a handle on new tools and features quickly. This book is designed to do just that, and more--everything you need to know about C# is right here, in the single-volume resource on every developer's shelf.
Tour the many new and enhanced features packed into C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 Learn how the latest Visual Studio update makes developers' jobs easier Streamline your workflow with a new focus on code simplification and performance enhancement Delve into improvements made for localization, networking, diagnostics, deployments, and more Whether you're entirely new to C# or just transitioning to C# 7, having a solid grasp of the latest features allows you to exploit the language's full functionality to create robust, high -quality apps. Professional C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 is the one-stop guide to everything you need to know.
36Pro ASP.NET 4.0 in C# 2010
ASP.NET 4 is the principal standard for creating dynamic web pages on the Windows platform. Pro ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010 raises the bar for high-quality, practical advice on learning and deploying Microsoft's dynamic web solution.
This edition is updated with everything you need to master up to version 4 of ASP.NET, including coverage of ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET AJAX 4, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, and Silverlight 3.
Seasoned .NET professionals Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta explain how you can get the most from these groundbreaking technologies. They cover ASP.NET 4 as a whole, illustrating both the newer features and the functionality carried over from previous versions of ASP. This book will give you the knowledge you need to code real ASP.NET 4 applications in the best possible style.
This edition is updated with everything you need to master up to version 4 of ASP.NET, including coverage of ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET AJAX 4, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, and Silverlight 3.
Seasoned .NET professionals Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta explain how you can get the most from these groundbreaking technologies. They cover ASP.NET 4 as a whole, illustrating both the newer features and the functionality carried over from previous versions of ASP. This book will give you the knowledge you need to code real ASP.NET 4 applications in the best possible style.
37Modern Authentication with Azure Active Directory for Web Applications
Build advanced authentication solutions for any cloud or web environment
Active Directory has been transformed to reflect the cloud revolution, modern protocols, and today's newest SaaS paradigms. This is an authoritative, deep-dive guide to building Active Directory authentication solutions for these new environments. Author Vittorio Bertocci drove these technologies from initial concept to general availability, playing key roles in everything from technical design to documentation. In this book, he delivers comprehensive guidance for building complete solutions. For each app type, Bertocci presents high-level scenarios and quick implementation steps, illuminates key concepts in greater depth, and helps you refine your solution to improve performance and reliability. He helps you make sense of highly abstract architectural diagrams and nitty-gritty protocol and implementation details. This is the book for people motivated to become experts.
Active Directory Program Manager Vittorio Bertocci shows you how to:
Address authentication challenges in the cloud or on-premises Systematically protect apps with Azure AD and AD Federation Services Power sign-in flows with OpenID Connect, Azure AD, and AD libraries Make the most of OpenID Connect's middleware and supporting classes Work with the Azure AD representation of apps and their relationships Provide fine-grained app access control via roles, groups, and permissions Consume and expose Web APIs protected by Azure AD Understand new authentication protocols without reading complex spec documents
Active Directory has been transformed to reflect the cloud revolution, modern protocols, and today's newest SaaS paradigms. This is an authoritative, deep-dive guide to building Active Directory authentication solutions for these new environments. Author Vittorio Bertocci drove these technologies from initial concept to general availability, playing key roles in everything from technical design to documentation. In this book, he delivers comprehensive guidance for building complete solutions. For each app type, Bertocci presents high-level scenarios and quick implementation steps, illuminates key concepts in greater depth, and helps you refine your solution to improve performance and reliability. He helps you make sense of highly abstract architectural diagrams and nitty-gritty protocol and implementation details. This is the book for people motivated to become experts.
Active Directory Program Manager Vittorio Bertocci shows you how to:
Address authentication challenges in the cloud or on-premises Systematically protect apps with Azure AD and AD Federation Services Power sign-in flows with OpenID Connect, Azure AD, and AD libraries Make the most of OpenID Connect's middleware and supporting classes Work with the Azure AD representation of apps and their relationships Provide fine-grained app access control via roles, groups, and permissions Consume and expose Web APIs protected by Azure AD Understand new authentication protocols without reading complex spec documents
38Programming Entity Framework
If you use Entity Framework in Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5, this is the book you want. "Programming Entity Framework, 1st Edition" offers experienced developers a thorough introduction to Microsoft's core framework for modeling and interacting with data in .NET applications. This hands-on tour provides a deep understanding of Entity Framework's architecture and APIs, and explains how to use the framework in a variety of applications built with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.
From the Entity Data Model (EDM) and Object Services to EntityClient and the Metadata Workspace, this highly acclaimed first edition covers it all.Understand the core concepts you need to make the best use of the Entity Framework (EF) in your applicationsLearn to query your data, using either LINQ to Entities or Entity SQLCreate Windows Forms, WPF, and ASP.NET applicationsBuild ASMX web services and WCF servicesUse Object Services to work directly with your entity objectsDelve into model customization, relationship management, change tracking, data concurrency, and more
One important note: while many of the lessons from this book will continue to be valuable as you move to .NET 4, the thoroughly revised second edition of "Programming Entity Framework" (August 2010) specifically targets Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 -- where there have been many advancements and additions to the framework.
From the Entity Data Model (EDM) and Object Services to EntityClient and the Metadata Workspace, this highly acclaimed first edition covers it all.Understand the core concepts you need to make the best use of the Entity Framework (EF) in your applicationsLearn to query your data, using either LINQ to Entities or Entity SQLCreate Windows Forms, WPF, and ASP.NET applicationsBuild ASMX web services and WCF servicesUse Object Services to work directly with your entity objectsDelve into model customization, relationship management, change tracking, data concurrency, and more
One important note: while many of the lessons from this book will continue to be valuable as you move to .NET 4, the thoroughly revised second edition of "Programming Entity Framework" (August 2010) specifically targets Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 -- where there have been many advancements and additions to the framework.
39Pro ASP.Net Core MVC
Visual Studio 2017 updates for this book are now available. Follow the Download Source Code link for this book on the Apress website.
Now in its 6th edition, the best selling book on MVC is now updated for ASP.NET Core MVC. It contains detailed explanations of the new Core MVC functionality which enables developers to produce leaner, cloud optimized and mobile-ready applications for the .NET platform. This book puts ASP.NET Core MVC into context and dives deep into the tools and techniques required to build modern, cloud optimized extensible web applications. All the new MVC features are described in detail and the author explains how best to apply them to both new and existing projects.
The ASP.NET Core MVC Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft's ASP.NET web platform, built on a completely new foundation. It represents a fundamental change to how Microsoft constructs and deploys web frameworks and is free of the legacy of earlier technologies such as Web Forms. ASP.NET Core MVC provides a "host agnostic" framework and a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility.
Best-selling author Adam Freeman has thoroughly revised this market-leading book and explains how to get the most from ASP.NET Core MVC. He starts with the nuts-and-bolts and shows you everything through to advanced features, going in-depth to give you the knowledge you need.
This book follows the same format and style as the popular previous editions but brings everything up to date for the new ASP.NET Core MVC release. It presents a fully worked case study of a functioning ASP.NET MVC application that readers can use as a template for their own projects.
What You Will Learn:
Gain a solid architectural understanding of ASP.NET Core MVC
Explore the entire ASP.NET MVC Framework as a cohesive whole
See how MVC and test-driven development work in action
Learn what's new in ASP.NET Core MVC and how best to apply these new features to your own work
See how to create RESTful web services and Single Page Applications
Build on your existing knowledge of previous MVC releases to get up and running with the new programming model quickly and effectively
Who This Book Is For:
This book is for web developers with a basic knowledge of ASP.NET and C# who want to incorporate the latest improvements and functionality in the new ASP.NET Core MVC Framework.
Now in its 6th edition, the best selling book on MVC is now updated for ASP.NET Core MVC. It contains detailed explanations of the new Core MVC functionality which enables developers to produce leaner, cloud optimized and mobile-ready applications for the .NET platform. This book puts ASP.NET Core MVC into context and dives deep into the tools and techniques required to build modern, cloud optimized extensible web applications. All the new MVC features are described in detail and the author explains how best to apply them to both new and existing projects.
The ASP.NET Core MVC Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft's ASP.NET web platform, built on a completely new foundation. It represents a fundamental change to how Microsoft constructs and deploys web frameworks and is free of the legacy of earlier technologies such as Web Forms. ASP.NET Core MVC provides a "host agnostic" framework and a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility.
Best-selling author Adam Freeman has thoroughly revised this market-leading book and explains how to get the most from ASP.NET Core MVC. He starts with the nuts-and-bolts and shows you everything through to advanced features, going in-depth to give you the knowledge you need.
This book follows the same format and style as the popular previous editions but brings everything up to date for the new ASP.NET Core MVC release. It presents a fully worked case study of a functioning ASP.NET MVC application that readers can use as a template for their own projects.
What You Will Learn:
Gain a solid architectural understanding of ASP.NET Core MVC
Explore the entire ASP.NET MVC Framework as a cohesive whole
See how MVC and test-driven development work in action
Learn what's new in ASP.NET Core MVC and how best to apply these new features to your own work
See how to create RESTful web services and Single Page Applications
Build on your existing knowledge of previous MVC releases to get up and running with the new programming model quickly and effectively
Who This Book Is For:
This book is for web developers with a basic knowledge of ASP.NET and C# who want to incorporate the latest improvements and functionality in the new ASP.NET Core MVC Framework.
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40ASP.Net Cookbook
Developers who want to create dynamic, data-driven web sites running on Microsoft web servers have long relied on Active Server Pages (ASP). ASP.NET is Microsoft's latest evolution of ASP. While ASP.NET has a lot in common with its predecessor, this new technology takes advantage of object-oriented programming to dramatically improve developer productivity and convenience. Using the .NET Framework and Microsoft's new object-oriented languages, ASP.NET brings the same rapid drag-and-drop productivity to web applications that the Visual Basic programming language brought to Windows applications. ASP.NET also introduces web services, which allow developers to expose the functionality of an application via HTTP and XML, so that clients on any platform can access it via the Internet. ASP.NET is not a simple upgrade of ASP. It s a quantum leap ahead. There are many benefits to using ASP.NET, and one major drawback: the time developers must devote to mastering this new Web application technology.
The ASP.NET Cookbook provides a wealth of plug-and-play solutions to problems commonly encountered when developing ASP.NET web applications and services in the popular problem-solution-discussion Cookbook format. The coding solutions in ASP.NET Cookbook appeal to a wide range of developers, from the inexperienced to the expert. For every problem addressed in the book, there's a worked-out solution or recipe a short, focused piece of code that web developers can insert directly into their applications. Developers can save hours by using just a single one of over 100 recipes included in this invaluable cookbook.
But the ASP.NET Cookbook provides far more than just a wide range of cut-and-paste code solutions. Each recipe is followed by a discussion including tips, tricks, and possible pitfalls--so developers can learn to adapt the problem-solving techniques to a myriad of similar situations. Each recipe provides an immediate solution to a pressing problem, while simultaneously allowing developers who prefer to a hands-on learning style with the experience they need to master ASP.NET. This ultimate ASP.NET code sourcebook will quickly earn the dog-eared corners and coffee rings that mark a web developer's most valued resource.
The ASP.NET Cookbook provides a wealth of plug-and-play solutions to problems commonly encountered when developing ASP.NET web applications and services in the popular problem-solution-discussion Cookbook format. The coding solutions in ASP.NET Cookbook appeal to a wide range of developers, from the inexperienced to the expert. For every problem addressed in the book, there's a worked-out solution or recipe a short, focused piece of code that web developers can insert directly into their applications. Developers can save hours by using just a single one of over 100 recipes included in this invaluable cookbook.
But the ASP.NET Cookbook provides far more than just a wide range of cut-and-paste code solutions. Each recipe is followed by a discussion including tips, tricks, and possible pitfalls--so developers can learn to adapt the problem-solving techniques to a myriad of similar situations. Each recipe provides an immediate solution to a pressing problem, while simultaneously allowing developers who prefer to a hands-on learning style with the experience they need to master ASP.NET. This ultimate ASP.NET code sourcebook will quickly earn the dog-eared corners and coffee rings that mark a web developer's most valued resource.
41Beginning ASP.NET 4.5: In C# and VB
The ultimate programming guide to ASP.NET 4.5, by popular author and Microsoft MVP Imar SpaanjaarsUpdated for ASP.NET 4.5, this introductory book is filled with helpful examples and contains a user-friendly, step-by-step format. Written by popular author and Microsoft ASP.NET MVP Imar Spaanjaars, this book walks you through ASP.NET, Microsoft's technology for building dynamically generated web pages. This edition retains the highly accessible approach to building the Planet Wrox website example, an online community site featuring product reviews, picture sharing, bonus content for registered users, and more.Contains the comprehensive guide to the latest technology additions to ASP.NET 4.5 Shows how to build basic ASP.NET web pages and configure their server Includes information on how to add features with pre-built server controls Reveals how to design pages and make them consistent Contains the information needed for getting user input and displaying data
"Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB" uses Spaanjaars's distinct writing style to put you at ease with learning ASP.NET 4.5.
"Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB" uses Spaanjaars's distinct writing style to put you at ease with learning ASP.NET 4.5.
42Professional ASP.Net 3.5: In C# and VB
This book was written to introduce you to the features and capabilities that ASP.NET 3.5 offers, as well as to give you an explanation of the foundation that ASP.NET provides. We assume you have a general understanding of Web technologies, such as previous versions of ASP.NET, Active Server Pages 2.0/3.0, or JavaServer Pages. We also assume you understand basic programming constructs, such as variables, For Each loops, and object-oriented programming.
When the code differs substantially, this book provides examples in both VB and C#. Coverage includes:
ASP.NET folders and files, compiling code, and cross-page posting Using the available server controls Master pages, themes, and skins how to present data with ASP.NET controls Working with LINQ, ADO.NET, and XML hosting and working with your ASP.NET applications in IIS 7 Using and extending the extensible provider model the site navigation system storing user information with the personalization system membership and role management system for adding authentication and authorization to applications using web.config encapsulating pages into smaller and more manageable objects with Web Parts working with HTML and CSS design Using the theXMLHttpRequest object to build AJAX-enabled applications the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit simplify AJAX web development authentication, authorization, and HTTP access types and impersonations state management and performance of requests and responses advanced caching capabilities including SQL cache invalidation error handling and debugging techniques working with file types and streams building and using server controls manipulating HTTP requests with HttpModule and HttpHandler. Building and consuming XML Web services and SOAP Internationalization, configuration, instrumentation, performance, application tracing, health monitoring, administration, Management, packaging, deploying
When the code differs substantially, this book provides examples in both VB and C#. Coverage includes:
ASP.NET folders and files, compiling code, and cross-page posting Using the available server controls Master pages, themes, and skins how to present data with ASP.NET controls Working with LINQ, ADO.NET, and XML hosting and working with your ASP.NET applications in IIS 7 Using and extending the extensible provider model the site navigation system storing user information with the personalization system membership and role management system for adding authentication and authorization to applications using web.config encapsulating pages into smaller and more manageable objects with Web Parts working with HTML and CSS design Using the theXMLHttpRequest object to build AJAX-enabled applications the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit simplify AJAX web development authentication, authorization, and HTTP access types and impersonations state management and performance of requests and responses advanced caching capabilities including SQL cache invalidation error handling and debugging techniques working with file types and streams building and using server controls manipulating HTTP requests with HttpModule and HttpHandler. Building and consuming XML Web services and SOAP Internationalization, configuration, instrumentation, performance, application tracing, health monitoring, administration, Management, packaging, deploying
43Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC
44Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET
Build HTTP services that reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices, with ASP.NET Web API. This practical guide shows you how to develop evolvable HTTP services with Microsoft’s new framework. You’ll learn how to apply the fundamentals of Web API design—such as how to design and select a media type, and how to build out your API—in both Web Forms and MVC projects.
With technical guidance from members of the ASP.NET Web API team and its early adopters, this book also takes you into more advanced topics, including how to use content negotiation, leverage hypermedia, secure and test your API, and much much more.
With technical guidance from members of the ASP.NET Web API team and its early adopters, this book also takes you into more advanced topics, including how to use content negotiation, leverage hypermedia, secure and test your API, and much much more.
45Pro ASP.NET 4.5 in C#
ASP.NET 4.5 remains Microsoft's preferred technology for creating dynamic websites, providing developers with unrivaled power and flexibility. Pro ASP.NET 4.5 in C# is the most complete reference to ASP.NET that you will find. This comprehensively revised fifth edition will teach you everything you need to know in order to create well-designed ASP.NET websites. Beginning with core concepts the book progresses steadily through key professional skills. You'll be shown how to query databases in detail, consider the myriad applications of XML, and step through all the considerations you need to be aware of when securing your site from intruders. Finally, you'll consider advanced topics such as using client-side validation, jQuery and Ajax.
By the time you have read this book you will have learned all the skills you need to use ASP.NET 4.5 with confidence.
By the time you have read this book you will have learned all the skills you need to use ASP.NET 4.5 with confidence.
46Build Your Own ASP.Net 3.5 Website Using C# & VB
ASP.NET allows Web Developers to create dynamic, interactive Websites very efficiently thanks to multiple built-in controls and features built into the ASP.NET language.
ASP.NET 3.5 is a great leap forward since its first incarnation. In addition to a massively improved performance, it also provides much more to aid developers' productivity, including better AJAX integration and new ListView and DataPager controls. The third edition of this book reflects all these changes, as well as Visual Studio 2008.
Readers liked the original books for their comprehensive coverage, liberal code samples, and the practicality of developing an entire intranet application using freely available tools and software.
ASP.NET 3.5 is a great leap forward since its first incarnation. In addition to a massively improved performance, it also provides much more to aid developers' productivity, including better AJAX integration and new ListView and DataPager controls. The third edition of this book reflects all these changes, as well as Visual Studio 2008.
Readers liked the original books for their comprehensive coverage, liberal code samples, and the practicality of developing an entire intranet application using freely available tools and software.
47Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008
ASP.NET 3.5 is Microsoft's revolutionary ASP.NET technology. It is the principal standard for creating dynamic web pages on the Windows platform. Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008 raises the bar for highquality, practical advice on learning and deploying Microsoft's dynamic web solution.
Seasoned .NET professionals Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta explain how you can get the most from this groundbreaking technology. They cover ASP.NET 3.5 as a whole, illustrating both the brandnew features and the functionality carried over from previous versions of ASP. This book will give you the knowledge you need to code real ASP.NET 3.5 applications in the best possible style.
48Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1: In C# and VB
Build your ASP.NET 4.5.1 skills with real-world instruction
In this comprehensive guide to getting started with ASP.NET 4.5.1, best-selling author Imar Spaanjaars provides a firm foundation for coders new to ASP.NET and key insights for those not yet familiar with the important updates in the 4.5.1 release. Readers learn how to build full-featured ASP.NET websites using Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web, Microsoft's free development tool for ASP.NET web applications. Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1 guides you through the process of creating a fully functional, database-driven website, from creation of the most basic site structure all the way down to the successful deployment of the website to a production environment.
Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1: in C# and VB:
Explains how to get started with ASP.NET 4.5.1, including an introduction to Microsoft's Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web Features helpful examples for designing websites with CSS and HTML and how to overcome common formatting problems Shares techniques for managing server controls in ASP.NET, including standard controls, HTML controls, and data controls Provides real-world tips for creating consistent page layouts throughout your websites Covers practical functionality issues like validating user input, sending e-mail from your website, and processing data at the server Details what the ASP.NET state engine is and why it is important Shows how to access and modify data in a SQL Server database Includes coverage of jQuery, LINQ, and the Entity Framework Explores measures to take for optimal security
In this comprehensive guide to getting started with ASP.NET 4.5.1, best-selling author Imar Spaanjaars provides a firm foundation for coders new to ASP.NET and key insights for those not yet familiar with the important updates in the 4.5.1 release. Readers learn how to build full-featured ASP.NET websites using Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web, Microsoft's free development tool for ASP.NET web applications. Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1 guides you through the process of creating a fully functional, database-driven website, from creation of the most basic site structure all the way down to the successful deployment of the website to a production environment.
Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1: in C# and VB:
Explains how to get started with ASP.NET 4.5.1, including an introduction to Microsoft's Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web Features helpful examples for designing websites with CSS and HTML and how to overcome common formatting problems Shares techniques for managing server controls in ASP.NET, including standard controls, HTML controls, and data controls Provides real-world tips for creating consistent page layouts throughout your websites Covers practical functionality issues like validating user input, sending e-mail from your website, and processing data at the server Details what the ASP.NET state engine is and why it is important Shows how to access and modify data in a SQL Server database Includes coverage of jQuery, LINQ, and the Entity Framework Explores measures to take for optimal security
49ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution
ASP.NET 2.0 Programming: Problem Design Solution is aimed at describing, designing, and implementing a site much like the ones you're probably working on or will be soon, while taking the opportunity to introduce and explain many of the new features that the new great ASP.NET 2.0 framework offers. Difficult problems are addressed head-on so you'll be ready for most of the problems you'll typically face when writing a modern website, and have one or more solutions ready for them. Unlike many other ASP.NET books that show examples for individual pages or features, the example in this book is an integrated end-to-end site (written in C#). The entire book and site has been written specifically for ASP.NET 2.0, to use the ASP.NET 2.0 features wherever they make sense.
The end-result is a website which features a layout with user-selectable themes, a membership system, a content management system for publishing and syndicating articles and photos, polls, mailing lists, forums, an e-commerce store with support for real-time credit card processing, homepage personalization, and localization. The book leads the reader through development of a site with:
Account registration, personalization and theming News and events, organized into categories Opinion polls Newsletter Forums E-commerce store with shopping cart and order management Localization Administration of a site will be covered including:
Full online back-end administrative section, to manage practically all data from an intuitive user interface Site deployment In building these site features, you'll learn these new ASP.NET 2.0 features:
Master pages Theming Personalization & Web parts Membership & Profile modules Personalization The new server-side UI controls such as GridView, DetailsView, FormView, Wizard, MultiView, the new xxxDataSource and navigation controls, among others. The new compilation mode and deployment modes The new framework for instrumenting the site, as well as handling & logging exceptions The new ADO.NET 2.0 features (e.g. caching with database dependency) The new classes for easy distributed transactions Management This book is also available as part of the 5-book ASP.NET 2.0 Wrox Box (ISBN: 0-470-11757-5). This 5-book set includes:
Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition (ISBN: 0-470-04178-1) ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution (ISBN: 0764584642 ) Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management (ISBN: 0764596985) Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control and Component Development (ISBN: 0471793507) ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips (ISBN: 0764597663) CD-ROM with more than 1000 pages of bonus chapters from 15 other .NET 2.0 and SQL Server(TM) 2005 Wrox books DVD with 180-day trial version of Microsoft(r) Visual Studio(r) 2005 Professional Edition
The end-result is a website which features a layout with user-selectable themes, a membership system, a content management system for publishing and syndicating articles and photos, polls, mailing lists, forums, an e-commerce store with support for real-time credit card processing, homepage personalization, and localization. The book leads the reader through development of a site with:
Account registration, personalization and theming News and events, organized into categories Opinion polls Newsletter Forums E-commerce store with shopping cart and order management Localization Administration of a site will be covered including:
Full online back-end administrative section, to manage practically all data from an intuitive user interface Site deployment In building these site features, you'll learn these new ASP.NET 2.0 features:
Master pages Theming Personalization & Web parts Membership & Profile modules Personalization The new server-side UI controls such as GridView, DetailsView, FormView, Wizard, MultiView, the new xxxDataSource and navigation controls, among others. The new compilation mode and deployment modes The new framework for instrumenting the site, as well as handling & logging exceptions The new ADO.NET 2.0 features (e.g. caching with database dependency) The new classes for easy distributed transactions Management This book is also available as part of the 5-book ASP.NET 2.0 Wrox Box (ISBN: 0-470-11757-5). This 5-book set includes:
Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition (ISBN: 0-470-04178-1) ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution (ISBN: 0764584642 ) Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management (ISBN: 0764596985) Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control and Component Development (ISBN: 0471793507) ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips (ISBN: 0764597663) CD-ROM with more than 1000 pages of bonus chapters from 15 other .NET 2.0 and SQL Server(TM) 2005 Wrox books DVD with 180-day trial version of Microsoft(r) Visual Studio(r) 2005 Professional Edition
50Learn Visual Basic: A Step-By-Step Programming Tutorial
51Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005: From Novice to Professional
*Code-base rewritten from previous version, to demonstrate ASP.NET 2.0 functionality; updated features also included *Example code is flexible, to fit each reader's needs
*Each chapter--not just the latter ones--builds a new feature of the functional e-commerce website; keeps reader excited
*Final website is fully operational and ready for immediate use to sell goods and take money.
*Each chapter--not just the latter ones--builds a new feature of the functional e-commerce website; keeps reader excited
*Final website is fully operational and ready for immediate use to sell goods and take money.
52Murach's ASP.Net 4.5 Web Programming with VB 2012
Now in its 5th edition, this is the book that you can rely on for both training and reference as you develop professional web applications with Visual Basic, ASP.NET, and Visual Studio.
53Murach's ASP.NET 4.5 Web Programming with C# 2012
Now in its 5th edition, this is the book that you can rely on for both training and reference as you develop professional web applications with C#, ASP.NET, and Visual Studio.
54Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET
If you think you're well versed in ASP.NET, think again. This exceptional guide gives you a master class in site building with ASP.NET 3.5 and other cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. You learn how to develop rock-solid web portal applications that can withstand millions of hits every day while surviving scalability and security pressures -- not just for mass-consumer homepages, but also for dashboards that deliver powerful content aggregation for enterprises.
Written by Omar AL Zabir, co-founder and CTO of Pageflakes, Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 demonstrates how to develop portals similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Pageflakes using ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Workflow Foundation, LINQ and .NET 3.5. Through the course of the book, AL Zabir builds an open source Ajax-enabled portal prototype (available online at www.dropthings.com), and walks you though the design and architectural challenges, advanced Ajax concepts, performance optimization techniques, and server-side scalability problems involved.
You learn how to:
Implement a highly decoupled architecture following the popular n-tier, widget-based application model Provide drag-and-drop functionality, and use ASP.NET 3.5 to build the server-side part of the web layer Use LINQ to build the data access layer, and Windows Workflow Foundation to build the business layer as a collection of workflows Build client-side widgets using JavaScript for faster performance and better caching Get maximum performance out of the ASP.NET AJAX Framework for faster, more dynamic, and scalable sites Build a custom web service call handler to overcome shortcomings in ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 for asynchronous, transactional, cache-friendly web services Overcome JavaScript performance problems, and help the user interface load faster and be more responsive Solve scalability and security problems as your site grows from hundreds to millions of users Deploy and run a high-volume production site while solving software, hardware, hosting, and Internet infrastructure problems
Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 also presents real-world ASP.NET challenges that the author has solved in building educational and enterprise portals, plus thirteen production disasters common to web applications serving millions of users. If you're ready to build state-of-the art, high-volume web applications, this book has exactly what you need.
Written by Omar AL Zabir, co-founder and CTO of Pageflakes, Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 demonstrates how to develop portals similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Pageflakes using ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Workflow Foundation, LINQ and .NET 3.5. Through the course of the book, AL Zabir builds an open source Ajax-enabled portal prototype (available online at www.dropthings.com), and walks you though the design and architectural challenges, advanced Ajax concepts, performance optimization techniques, and server-side scalability problems involved.
You learn how to:
Implement a highly decoupled architecture following the popular n-tier, widget-based application model Provide drag-and-drop functionality, and use ASP.NET 3.5 to build the server-side part of the web layer Use LINQ to build the data access layer, and Windows Workflow Foundation to build the business layer as a collection of workflows Build client-side widgets using JavaScript for faster performance and better caching Get maximum performance out of the ASP.NET AJAX Framework for faster, more dynamic, and scalable sites Build a custom web service call handler to overcome shortcomings in ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 for asynchronous, transactional, cache-friendly web services Overcome JavaScript performance problems, and help the user interface load faster and be more responsive Solve scalability and security problems as your site grows from hundreds to millions of users Deploy and run a high-volume production site while solving software, hardware, hosting, and Internet infrastructure problems
Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 also presents real-world ASP.NET challenges that the author has solved in building educational and enterprise portals, plus thirteen production disasters common to web applications serving millions of users. If you're ready to build state-of-the art, high-volume web applications, this book has exactly what you need.
55ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework and CSS
Get up and running quickly with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework as you build and deploy complex websites. By using a fully working example retail website you will learn solutions to real-world issues that developers frequently encounter.
Whether you are a novice developer or an experienced .NET developer wishing to learn more about MVC and Entity Framework, author Lee Naylor will teach you how to develop a detailed database-driven example website using Microsoft ASP.NET and Entity Framework Code First with fully explained code examples.
What You Will Learn:
-Get up and running quickly with ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework to build a complex website to display and manage several related entities- Integrate identity code into a project- Understand advanced topics, including asynchronous database access and managing data conflicts-Work with Microsoft Azure, including remote debugging and database access- Develop your CSS skills, including animations and media queries for use with tablet or mobile/cell phone devices
Who This Book Is For:
Novice developers new to the subject through to more experienced ASP.NET web forms developers looking to migrate from web forms to MVC and Entity Framework. The book assumes some programming knowledge such as object-oriented programming concepts and a basic knowledge of C#.
Whether you are a novice developer or an experienced .NET developer wishing to learn more about MVC and Entity Framework, author Lee Naylor will teach you how to develop a detailed database-driven example website using Microsoft ASP.NET and Entity Framework Code First with fully explained code examples.
What You Will Learn:
-Get up and running quickly with ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework to build a complex website to display and manage several related entities- Integrate identity code into a project- Understand advanced topics, including asynchronous database access and managing data conflicts-Work with Microsoft Azure, including remote debugging and database access- Develop your CSS skills, including animations and media queries for use with tablet or mobile/cell phone devices
Who This Book Is For:
Novice developers new to the subject through to more experienced ASP.NET web forms developers looking to migrate from web forms to MVC and Entity Framework. The book assumes some programming knowledge such as object-oriented programming concepts and a basic knowledge of C#.
56Modern Web Development: Understanding Domains, Technologies, and User Experience
Master powerful new approaches to web architecture, design, and user experience
This book presents a pragmatic, problem-driven, user-focused approach to planning, designing, and building dynamic web solutions. You'll learn how to gain maximum value from Domain-Driven Design (DDD), define optimal supporting architecture, and succeed with modern UX-first design approaches. The author guides you through choosing and implementing specific technologies and addresses key user-experience topics, including mobile-friendly and responsive design. You'll learn how to gain more value from existing Microsoft technologies such as ASP.NET MVC and SignalR by using them alongside other technologies such as Bootstrap, AJAX, JSON, and JQuery. By using these techniques and understanding the new ASP.NET Core 1.0, you can quickly build advanced web solutions that solve today's problems and deliver an outstanding user experience.
Microsoft MVP Dino Esposito shows you how to:
Plan websites and web apps to mirror real-world social and business processes Use DDD to dissect and master the complexity of business domains Use UX-Driven Design to reduce costs and give customers what they want Realistically compare server-side and client-side web paradigms Get started with the new ASP.NET Core 1.0 Simplify modern visual webpage construction with Bootstrap Master practical, efficient techniques for running ASP.NET MVC projects Consider new options for implementing persistence and working with data models Understand Responsive Web Design's pros, cons, and tradeoffs Build truly mobile-friendly, mobile-optimized websites
About This Book
For experienced developers and solution architects who want to plan and develop web solutions more effectively Assumes basic familiarity with the Microsoft web development stack
This book presents a pragmatic, problem-driven, user-focused approach to planning, designing, and building dynamic web solutions. You'll learn how to gain maximum value from Domain-Driven Design (DDD), define optimal supporting architecture, and succeed with modern UX-first design approaches. The author guides you through choosing and implementing specific technologies and addresses key user-experience topics, including mobile-friendly and responsive design. You'll learn how to gain more value from existing Microsoft technologies such as ASP.NET MVC and SignalR by using them alongside other technologies such as Bootstrap, AJAX, JSON, and JQuery. By using these techniques and understanding the new ASP.NET Core 1.0, you can quickly build advanced web solutions that solve today's problems and deliver an outstanding user experience.
Microsoft MVP Dino Esposito shows you how to:
Plan websites and web apps to mirror real-world social and business processes Use DDD to dissect and master the complexity of business domains Use UX-Driven Design to reduce costs and give customers what they want Realistically compare server-side and client-side web paradigms Get started with the new ASP.NET Core 1.0 Simplify modern visual webpage construction with Bootstrap Master practical, efficient techniques for running ASP.NET MVC projects Consider new options for implementing persistence and working with data models Understand Responsive Web Design's pros, cons, and tradeoffs Build truly mobile-friendly, mobile-optimized websites
About This Book
For experienced developers and solution architects who want to plan and develop web solutions more effectively Assumes basic familiarity with the Microsoft web development stack
57Professional ASP.Net MVC 1.0
This book begins with you working along as Scott Guthrie builds a complete ASP.NET MVC reference application. He begins NerdDinner by using the File->New Project menu command within Visual Studio to create a new ASP.NET MVC Application. You'll then incrementally add functionality and features. Along the way you'll cover how to create a database, build a model layer with business rule validations, implement listing/details data browsing, provide CRUD (Create, Update, Delete) data form entry support, implement efficient data paging, reuse UI using master pages and partials, secure the application using authentication and authorization, use AJAX to deliver dynamic updates and interactive map support, and implement automated unit testing. From there, the bulk of the rest of the book begins with the basic concepts around the model view controller pattern, including the little history and the state of the MVC on the web today. We'll then go into the ways that MVC is different from ASP.NET Web Forms. We'll explore the structure of a standard MVC application and see what you get out of the box. Next we dig deep into routing and see the role URLs play in your application. We'll deep dive into controllers and views and see what role the Ajax plays in your applications. The last third of the book focuses entirely on advanced techniques and extending the framework.
In some places, we assume that you're somewhat familiar with ASP.NET WebForms, at least peripherally. There are a lot of ASP.NET WebForms developers out there who are interested in ASP.NET MVC so there are a number of places in this book where we contrast the two technologies. Even if you're not already an ASP.NET developer, you might still find these sections interesting for context, as well as for your own edification as ASP.NET MVC may not be the web technology that you're looking for.
In some places, we assume that you're somewhat familiar with ASP.NET WebForms, at least peripherally. There are a lot of ASP.NET WebForms developers out there who are interested in ASP.NET MVC so there are a number of places in this book where we contrast the two technologies. Even if you're not already an ASP.NET developer, you might still find these sections interesting for context, as well as for your own edification as ASP.NET MVC may not be the web technology that you're looking for.
58ASP.NET MVC 4 in Action
Summary
ASP.NET MVC 4 in Action is a fast-paced tutorial designed to introduce ASP.NET MVC to .NET developers and show how to apply it effectively. All examples in this revised edition are based on ASP.NET MVC 4, so you'll get full coverage of features such as the Razor view engine, Web Matrix helpers, and improved extensibility. You'll see how your ASP.NET applications can benefit from changes in the .NET Framework.
About the Technology
ASP.NET MVC provides the architecture needed to separate an application's logic and its UI. Because each component's role is well defined, MVC applications are easy to test, maintain, and extend. The latest version, ASP.NET MVC 4, takes advantage of .NET 4 and includes powerful features like the Razor view engine, Web Matrix helpers, and enhanced extensibility.
About the Book
ASP.NET MVC 4 in Action is a hands-on guide that shows you howto apply ASP.NET MVC effectively. After a high-speed ramp up,this thoroughly revised new edition explores each key topic witha self-contained example so you can jump right to the parts youneed. Based on thousands of hours of real-world experience, theauthors show you valuable high-end techniques you won't findanywhere else. Written for developers, the book arms you withthe next-level skills and practical guidance to create compellingweb applications.
You need some knowledge of ASP.NET and C#, but no priorASP.NET MVC experience is assumed.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
What's Inside
Complete coverage of ASP.NET MVC 4
The new Web API
Full-system testing
About the Authors
Jeffrey Palermo, Jimmy Bogard, Eric Hexter, Matthew Hinze, andJeremy Skinner are all ASP.NET MVPs, ASP insiders, and early adoptersof ASP.NET MVC.
=======================================
Table of Contents
PART 1 HIGH-SPEED FUNDAMENTALS
Introduction to ASP.NET MVC
Hello MVC world
View fundamentals
Action-packed controllers
PART 2 WORKING WITH ASP.NET MVC
View models
Validation
Ajax in ASP.NET MVC
Security
Controlling URLs with routing
Model binders and value providers
Mapping with AutoMapper
Lightweight controllers
Organization with areas
Third-party components
Data access with NHibernate
PART 3 MASTERING ASP.NET MVC
Extending the controller
Advanced view techniques
Dependency injection and extensibility
Portable areas
Full system testing
Hosting ASP.NET MVC applications
Deployment techniques
Upgrading to ASP.NET MVC 4
ASP.NET Web API
ASP.NET MVC 4 in Action is a fast-paced tutorial designed to introduce ASP.NET MVC to .NET developers and show how to apply it effectively. All examples in this revised edition are based on ASP.NET MVC 4, so you'll get full coverage of features such as the Razor view engine, Web Matrix helpers, and improved extensibility. You'll see how your ASP.NET applications can benefit from changes in the .NET Framework.
About the Technology
ASP.NET MVC provides the architecture needed to separate an application's logic and its UI. Because each component's role is well defined, MVC applications are easy to test, maintain, and extend. The latest version, ASP.NET MVC 4, takes advantage of .NET 4 and includes powerful features like the Razor view engine, Web Matrix helpers, and enhanced extensibility.
About the Book
ASP.NET MVC 4 in Action is a hands-on guide that shows you howto apply ASP.NET MVC effectively. After a high-speed ramp up,this thoroughly revised new edition explores each key topic witha self-contained example so you can jump right to the parts youneed. Based on thousands of hours of real-world experience, theauthors show you valuable high-end techniques you won't findanywhere else. Written for developers, the book arms you withthe next-level skills and practical guidance to create compellingweb applications.
You need some knowledge of ASP.NET and C#, but no priorASP.NET MVC experience is assumed.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
What's Inside
Complete coverage of ASP.NET MVC 4
The new Web API
Full-system testing
About the Authors
Jeffrey Palermo, Jimmy Bogard, Eric Hexter, Matthew Hinze, andJeremy Skinner are all ASP.NET MVPs, ASP insiders, and early adoptersof ASP.NET MVC.
=======================================
Table of Contents
PART 1 HIGH-SPEED FUNDAMENTALS
Introduction to ASP.NET MVC
Hello MVC world
View fundamentals
Action-packed controllers
PART 2 WORKING WITH ASP.NET MVC
View models
Validation
Ajax in ASP.NET MVC
Security
Controlling URLs with routing
Model binders and value providers
Mapping with AutoMapper
Lightweight controllers
Organization with areas
Third-party components
Data access with NHibernate
PART 3 MASTERING ASP.NET MVC
Extending the controller
Advanced view techniques
Dependency injection and extensibility
Portable areas
Full system testing
Hosting ASP.NET MVC applications
Deployment techniques
Upgrading to ASP.NET MVC 4
ASP.NET Web API
59Programming ASP.Net AJAX
Delivering rich, Web 2.0-style experiences has never been easier. This book gives you a complete hands-on introduction to Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, the new framework that offers many of the same benefits for Ajax development that ASP.NET provides for server-side development. With Programming ASP.NET AJAX, you'll learn how to create professional, dynamic web pages with Ajax in no time.
Loaded with code and examples that demonstrate key aspects of the framework, this book is ideal not only for ASP.NET developers who want to take their applications a step further with Ajax, but for any web developers interested in ASP.NET AJAX, no matter what technology they use currently. That includes JavaScript programmers who would like to avoid the headaches of writing cross-browser code.
Programming ASP.NET AJAX offers you:
A high-level overview of the ASP.NET AJAX framework Functional code that you can cut and paste for use in your own applications The essentials of JavaScript and Ajax to help you understand individual technologies used by the framework An organization that reflects the framework's packages, including Extensions, Control Toolkit, the Futures CTP, and the AJAX Library Sidebars throughout the book that identify and propose solutions to potential security breaches Ways to use the standards-based AJAX Library with other platforms, such as PHP A complete chapter on the UpdatePanel control for making individual parts of a web page independently updateable -- one of the framework's most important elements Released previously as Programming Atlas to cover the beta version of the Microsoft framework, this edition is fully up-to-date and expanded for the official 1.0 release of ASP.NET AJAX. Written by Christian Wenz -- Microsoft MVP for ASP/ASP.NET and AJAX Control Toolkit Contributor -- Programming ASP.NET AJAX contains many hard-to-find details, along with a few unofficial ways to accomplish things.
Loaded with code and examples that demonstrate key aspects of the framework, this book is ideal not only for ASP.NET developers who want to take their applications a step further with Ajax, but for any web developers interested in ASP.NET AJAX, no matter what technology they use currently. That includes JavaScript programmers who would like to avoid the headaches of writing cross-browser code.
Programming ASP.NET AJAX offers you:
A high-level overview of the ASP.NET AJAX framework Functional code that you can cut and paste for use in your own applications The essentials of JavaScript and Ajax to help you understand individual technologies used by the framework An organization that reflects the framework's packages, including Extensions, Control Toolkit, the Futures CTP, and the AJAX Library Sidebars throughout the book that identify and propose solutions to potential security breaches Ways to use the standards-based AJAX Library with other platforms, such as PHP A complete chapter on the UpdatePanel control for making individual parts of a web page independently updateable -- one of the framework's most important elements Released previously as Programming Atlas to cover the beta version of the Microsoft framework, this edition is fully up-to-date and expanded for the official 1.0 release of ASP.NET AJAX. Written by Christian Wenz -- Microsoft MVP for ASP/ASP.NET and AJAX Control Toolkit Contributor -- Programming ASP.NET AJAX contains many hard-to-find details, along with a few unofficial ways to accomplish things.
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60Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting: Automate and manage your environment using PowerShell Core 6.0, 3rd Edition
61Entity Framework Core in Action
Summary
Entity Framework Core in Action teaches you how to access and update relational data from .NET applications. Following the crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, and around 100 diagrams, you'll discover time-saving patterns and best practices for security, performance tuning, and unit testing.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
There's a mismatch in the way OO programs and relational databases represent data. Entity Framework is an object-relational mapper (ORM) that bridges this gap, making it radically easier to query and write to databases from a .NET application. EF creates a data model that matches the structure of your OO code so you can query and write to your database using standard LINQ commands. It will even automatically generate the model from your database schema.
About the Book
Using crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, and around 100 diagrams, Entity Framework Core in Action teaches you how to access and update relational data from .NET applications. You'l start with a clear breakdown of Entity Framework, long with the mental model behind ORM. Then you'll discover time-saving patterns and best practices for security, performance tuning, and even unit testing. As you go, you'll address common data access challenges and learn how to handle them with Entity Framework.
What's Inside
Querying a relational database with LINQ
Using EF Core in business logic
Integrating EF with existing C# applications
Applying domain-driven design to EF Core
Getting the best performance out of EF Core
Covers EF Core 2.0 and 2.1
About the Reader
For .NET developers with some awareness of how relational databases work.
About the Author
Jon P Smith is a full-stack developer with special focus on .NET Core and Azure.
Table of Contents
Part 1 - Getting started
Introduction to Entity FrameworkCore
Querying the database
Changing the database content
Using EF Core in business logic
Using EF Core in ASP.NET Core web applications
Part 2 - Entity Framework in depth
Configuring nonrelational properties
Configuring relationships
Configuring advanced features and handling concurrency conflicts
Going deeper into the DbContext
Part 3 - Using Entity Framework Core in real-world applications
Useful software patterns for EF Core applications
Handling database migrations
EF Core performance tuning
A worked example of performance tuning
Different database types and EF Core services
Unit testing EF Core applications
Appendix A - A brief introduction to LINQ
Appendix B - Early information on EF Core version 2.1
Entity Framework Core in Action teaches you how to access and update relational data from .NET applications. Following the crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, and around 100 diagrams, you'll discover time-saving patterns and best practices for security, performance tuning, and unit testing.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
There's a mismatch in the way OO programs and relational databases represent data. Entity Framework is an object-relational mapper (ORM) that bridges this gap, making it radically easier to query and write to databases from a .NET application. EF creates a data model that matches the structure of your OO code so you can query and write to your database using standard LINQ commands. It will even automatically generate the model from your database schema.
About the Book
Using crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, and around 100 diagrams, Entity Framework Core in Action teaches you how to access and update relational data from .NET applications. You'l start with a clear breakdown of Entity Framework, long with the mental model behind ORM. Then you'll discover time-saving patterns and best practices for security, performance tuning, and even unit testing. As you go, you'll address common data access challenges and learn how to handle them with Entity Framework.
What's Inside
Querying a relational database with LINQ
Using EF Core in business logic
Integrating EF with existing C# applications
Applying domain-driven design to EF Core
Getting the best performance out of EF Core
Covers EF Core 2.0 and 2.1
About the Reader
For .NET developers with some awareness of how relational databases work.
About the Author
Jon P Smith is a full-stack developer with special focus on .NET Core and Azure.
Table of Contents
Part 1 - Getting started
Introduction to Entity FrameworkCore
Querying the database
Changing the database content
Using EF Core in business logic
Using EF Core in ASP.NET Core web applications
Part 2 - Entity Framework in depth
Configuring nonrelational properties
Configuring relationships
Configuring advanced features and handling concurrency conflicts
Going deeper into the DbContext
Part 3 - Using Entity Framework Core in real-world applications
Useful software patterns for EF Core applications
Handling database migrations
EF Core performance tuning
A worked example of performance tuning
Different database types and EF Core services
Unit testing EF Core applications
Appendix A - A brief introduction to LINQ
Appendix B - Early information on EF Core version 2.1
62Professional C# 6 and .Net Core 1.0
A true professional's guide to C# 6
Professional C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0 provides complete coverage of the latest updates, features, and capabilities, giving you everything you need for C#. Get expert instruction on the latest changes to Visual Studio 2015, Windows Runtime, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Windows Store Apps, Windows Workflow Foundation, and more, with clear explanations, no-nonsense pacing, and valuable expert insight. This incredibly useful guide serves as both tutorial and desk reference, providing a professional-level review of C# architecture and its application in a number of areas. You'll gain a solid background in managed code and .NET constructs within the context of the 2015 release, so you can get acclimated quickly and get back to work.
The new updates can actively streamline your workflow, with major changes including reimagined C# refactoring support, a new .NET Web app stack, and the .NET compiler platform that makes C# and Visual Basic compilers available as APIs. This book walks you through the changes with a comprehensive C# review.
Explore the new Visual Studio templates for ASP.NET Core 1.0, Web Forms, and MVC Learn about the networking switch to HttpClient and ASP.NET Web API's replacement of WCF Data Services Work with the latest updates to the event log, Windows Runtime 2.0, and Windows 8.1 deployment and localization Dig deep into the new .NET 5.0 GC behaviors and the Migrations addition to ADO.NET Microsoft has stepped up both the cadence and magnitude of their software releases. Professional C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0 shows you everything you need to know about working with C# in a real-world context.
Professional C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0 provides complete coverage of the latest updates, features, and capabilities, giving you everything you need for C#. Get expert instruction on the latest changes to Visual Studio 2015, Windows Runtime, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Windows Store Apps, Windows Workflow Foundation, and more, with clear explanations, no-nonsense pacing, and valuable expert insight. This incredibly useful guide serves as both tutorial and desk reference, providing a professional-level review of C# architecture and its application in a number of areas. You'll gain a solid background in managed code and .NET constructs within the context of the 2015 release, so you can get acclimated quickly and get back to work.
The new updates can actively streamline your workflow, with major changes including reimagined C# refactoring support, a new .NET Web app stack, and the .NET compiler platform that makes C# and Visual Basic compilers available as APIs. This book walks you through the changes with a comprehensive C# review.
Explore the new Visual Studio templates for ASP.NET Core 1.0, Web Forms, and MVC Learn about the networking switch to HttpClient and ASP.NET Web API's replacement of WCF Data Services Work with the latest updates to the event log, Windows Runtime 2.0, and Windows 8.1 deployment and localization Dig deep into the new .NET 5.0 GC behaviors and the Migrations addition to ADO.NET Microsoft has stepped up both the cadence and magnitude of their software releases. Professional C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0 shows you everything you need to know about working with C# in a real-world context.
63Hacking the Code: ASP.Net Web Application Security
Hacking the Code has over 400 pages of dedicated exploit, vulnerability, and tool code with corresponding instruction. Unlike other security and programming books that dedicate hundreds of pages to architecture and theory based flaws and exploits, Hacking the Code dives right into deep code analysis. Previously undisclosed security research in combination with superior programming techniques from Foundstone and other respected organizations is included in both the Local and Remote Code sections of the book.
The book is accompanied with a FREE COMPANION CD containing both commented and uncommented versions of the source code examples presented throughout the book. In addition to the book source code, the CD also contains a copy of the author-developed Hacker Code Library v1.0. The Hacker Code Library includes multiple attack classes and functions that can be utilized to quickly create security programs and scripts. These classes and functions simplify exploit and vulnerability tool development to an extent never before possible with publicly available software.
Learn to quickly create security tools that ease the burden of software testing and network administration
Find out about key security issues regarding vulnerabilities, exploits, programming flaws, and secure code development
Discover the differences in numerous types of web-based attacks so that developers can create proper quality assurance testing procedures and tools
Learn to automate quality assurance, management, and development tasks and procedures for testing systems and applications
Learn to write complex Snort rules based solely upon traffic generated by network tools and exploits
The book is accompanied with a FREE COMPANION CD containing both commented and uncommented versions of the source code examples presented throughout the book. In addition to the book source code, the CD also contains a copy of the author-developed Hacker Code Library v1.0. The Hacker Code Library includes multiple attack classes and functions that can be utilized to quickly create security programs and scripts. These classes and functions simplify exploit and vulnerability tool development to an extent never before possible with publicly available software.
Learn to quickly create security tools that ease the burden of software testing and network administration
Find out about key security issues regarding vulnerabilities, exploits, programming flaws, and secure code development
Discover the differences in numerous types of web-based attacks so that developers can create proper quality assurance testing procedures and tools
Learn to automate quality assurance, management, and development tasks and procedures for testing systems and applications
Learn to write complex Snort rules based solely upon traffic generated by network tools and exploits
64ASP.NET Core Application Development: Building an Application in Four Sprints
Master ASP.NET Core hands-on: from architecture through deployment and beyond This book guides you through the entire process of building, deploying, and managing cross-platform web apps with ASP.NET Core. You'll master Microsoft's revolutionary open source ASP.NET Core technology, and learn how to integrate the immense power of MVC, Docker, Azure Web Apps, Visual Studio, C#, JavaScript, and Entity Framework. Working alongside the fictitious development team at Alpine Ski House, you'll witness a four-sprint journey starting with a blank canvas. You'll see the team architect and design their software, adjust to user feedback, and move through builds, testing, deployment, maintenance, and refactoring. Throughout, you'll discover how to deliver state-of-the-art software faster and more repeatably than ever before. Three leading Microsoft MVPs show how to: - Build great cross-platform apps using ASP.NET Core and open source frameworks - Go beyond MVC to build a complete ASP.Net Core application - Create builds on Day One and quickly deploy viable products - Integrate Azure support to gain cloud scalability - Run or develop cross-platform solutions on Linux - Establish consistent development environments with Docker - Access data with Entity Framework Core 1.0 - Generate HTML views with the updated Razor view engine - Apply the new configuration system and structured logging - Use identity to enforce security and provide rights - Improve testability and maintainability with dependency injection - Use and manage JavaScript in ASP.NET Core environments - Choose and work with package managers to make life easier - Use SASS to write maintainable, attractive CSS - Make the most of tag helpers and other reusable components - Test web apps efficiently using xUnit.net and Jasmine - Design, organize, and refactor apps to smoothly accommodate change Get all code samples, including complete apps, at: https: //aka.ms/ASPCoreAppDev/downloads
65Practical ASP.NET Web API
Practical ASP.NET Web API provides you with a hands-on and code-focused demonstration of the ASP.NET Web API in action. From the very beginning, you'll be writing working code in order to see best practices and concepts in action. As the book progresses, the concepts and code will become more sophisticated. Beginning with an overview of the web service model in general and Web API in particular, you'll progress quickly to a detailed exploration of the request binding and response formatting that lie at the heart of Web API. You'll investigate various scenarios and see how they can be manipulated to achieve the results you need.
Later in the book more sophisticated themes will be introduced that will set your applications apart from the crowd. You'll learn how you can validate the request messages on arrival, how you can create loosely coupled controllers, extend the pipeline processing to compartmentalize your code for security and unit testing before being put onto a live hosting server.
Later in the book more sophisticated themes will be introduced that will set your applications apart from the crowd. You'll learn how you can validate the request messages on arrival, how you can create loosely coupled controllers, extend the pipeline processing to compartmentalize your code for security and unit testing before being put onto a live hosting server.
66Programming C# 8.0: Build Cloud, Web, and Desktop Applications
C# is undeniably one of the most versatile programming languages available to engineers today. With this comprehensive guide, you'll learn just how powerful the combination of C# and .NET can be. Author Ian Griffiths guides you through C# 8.0 fundamentals and techniques for building cloud, web, and desktop applications.
Designed for experienced programmers, this book provides many code examples to help you work with the nuts and bolts of C#, such as generics, LINQ, and asynchronous programming features. You'll get up to speed on .NET Core and the latest C# 8.0 additions, including asynchronous streams, nullable references, pattern matching, default interface implementation, ranges and new indexing syntax, and changes in the .NET tool chain.
Discover how C# supports fundamental coding features, such as classes, other custom types, collections, and error handling
Learn how to write high-performance memory-efficient code with .NET Core's Span and Memory types
Query and process diverse data sources, such as in-memory object models, databases, data streams, and XML documents with LINQ
Use .NET's multithreading features to exploit your computer's parallel processing capabilities
Learn how asynchronous language features can help improve application responsiveness and scalability
Designed for experienced programmers, this book provides many code examples to help you work with the nuts and bolts of C#, such as generics, LINQ, and asynchronous programming features. You'll get up to speed on .NET Core and the latest C# 8.0 additions, including asynchronous streams, nullable references, pattern matching, default interface implementation, ranges and new indexing syntax, and changes in the .NET tool chain.
Discover how C# supports fundamental coding features, such as classes, other custom types, collections, and error handling
Learn how to write high-performance memory-efficient code with .NET Core's Span and Memory types
Query and process diverse data sources, such as in-memory object models, databases, data streams, and XML documents with LINQ
Use .NET's multithreading features to exploit your computer's parallel processing capabilities
Learn how asynchronous language features can help improve application responsiveness and scalability
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67Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook: 100 recipes to build rich desktop client applications on Windows
68Pro ASP.NET Web Forms Techniques
You will discover the possibilities for developing user interfaces driven by ASP.NET. Author Alex Homer explores techniques and approaches to create attractive, full-featured, and easy-to-use websites and web pages. Further, these web pages will be interactive where appropriate, loosely based on real-world scenarios, and able to fulfill predefined requirements.
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This book provides what other books often skimp on: Homer concentrates on site requirement analysis, and design. Then he supports this by discussing site planning and mapping. This well-organized book prevents you from developing your site in a haphazard, unpredictable mannerwhich makes site development and maintenance so much more difficult Even the most simplistic starting plan can reduce development and maintenance time, and help you dodge the frustrations resulting from the ?no plan? approach.
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This book provides what other books often skimp on: Homer concentrates on site requirement analysis, and design. Then he supports this by discussing site planning and mapping. This well-organized book prevents you from developing your site in a haphazard, unpredictable mannerwhich makes site development and maintenance so much more difficult Even the most simplistic starting plan can reduce development and maintenance time, and help you dodge the frustrations resulting from the ?no plan? approach.
69Professional ASP.NET MVC 3
Book content includes:
Getting started with MVC 3, including a rundown of the new project dialog, directory structure and an introduction to NuGet (PowerShell inside Visual Studio 2010)
Controllers and Actions
View and ViewModelsModels and Databases, including using NuGet to install Entity Framework Code First
Forms and HTML Helpers
Validation and Data Annotations
Membership, Authorization and Security
Ajax
Routing, including routing to Http Handlers
NuGet, including using it from the Dialog 'and Package Console, creating a package, custom PowerShell actions and running from both a local repository and the Web
Dependency Injection
Unit testing
Extending ASP.NET MVC with filters and Extensibility points
What's new in MVC 3
70ASP.NET MVC 5 with Bootstrap and Knockout.Js: Building Dynamic, Responsive Web Applications
Bring dynamic server-side web content and responsive web design together to build websites that work and display well on any resolution, desktop or mobile. With this practical book, you'll learn how by combining the ASP.NET MVC server-side language, the Bootstrap front-end framework, and Knockout.js--the JavaScript implementation of the Model-View-ViewModel pattern.
Author Jamie Munro introduces these and other related technologies by having you work with sophisticated web forms. At the end of the book, experienced and aspiring web developers alike will learn how to build a complete shopping cart that demonstrates how these technologies interact with each other in a sleek, dynamic, and responsive web application.
Build well-organized, easy-to-maintain web applications by letting ASP.NET MVC 5, Bootstrap, and Knockout.js do the heavy lifting
Use ASP.NET MVC 5 to build server-side web applications, interact with a database, and dynamically render HTML
Create responsive views with Bootstrap that render on a variety of modern devices; you may never code with CSS again
Add Knockout.js to enhance responsive web design with snappy client-side interactions driven by your server-side web application
Author Jamie Munro introduces these and other related technologies by having you work with sophisticated web forms. At the end of the book, experienced and aspiring web developers alike will learn how to build a complete shopping cart that demonstrates how these technologies interact with each other in a sleek, dynamic, and responsive web application.
Build well-organized, easy-to-maintain web applications by letting ASP.NET MVC 5, Bootstrap, and Knockout.js do the heavy lifting
Use ASP.NET MVC 5 to build server-side web applications, interact with a database, and dynamically render HTML
Create responsive views with Bootstrap that render on a variety of modern devices; you may never code with CSS again
Add Knockout.js to enhance responsive web design with snappy client-side interactions driven by your server-side web application
71Bootstrapping MVC: Using Bootstrap and the Mvc Framework to Build Web Applications
72ASP.NET 2 For Dummies
More than one million developers now use ASP.NET, the Microsoft technology for creating dynamic, data-driven Web sites Published day and date with the new Visual Studio 2005 release, this revision of our bestselling book covers new language features as well as the much-anticipated Visual Web Developer tool Requiring no previous Visual Basic or C# experience, the author walks complete beginners through ASP.NET 2 basics, from working with objects, building user interfaces, and killing bugs to accessing databases and handling user input The CD-ROM includes all code and bonus content
73ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results
74Design Patterns in C#
Explains how to use C# as an object-oriented language, using design patterns to create clean code while taking advantage of the extensive Microsoft[registered] .NET Framework Class Libraries. This book offers detailed code examples utilizing C# and the .NET Framework - as well as programming exercises crafted to help you build expertise.
75ASP.Net: The Complete Reference
Get the comprehensive low-down on all seven built-in .NET Framework namespaces--plus plenty of other useful information for developers, including relevant topics like security, Web services, database development, application deployment, and more.
76Learning ASP.Net 2.0 with Ajax
With this book, web developers can build engaging and interactive sites and applications using Microsoft's latest web development tools -- ASP.NET 2.0 and the new ASP.NET AJAX framework. You learn to create applications that have all the great tricks you see on popular commercial web sites, such as order forms and the ability to interact with a database. And you can build pages that display information interactively without a page refresh. This straightforward tutorial explains how.
Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX helps you master the concepts and techniques of Microsoft's tools with plenty of annotated examples, review quizzes, web construction exercises and chapter summaries, so you can practice new skills and test your understanding as you go. With it, you'll learn to:
Master the fundamental skills of ASP.NET 2.0 to build professional quality web applications
Integrate new Ajax tools and CSS with ASP.NET 2.0 for flashier and more interactive sites
Build applications with minimal coding using Visual Studio or its free counterpart, Visual Web Developer
Connect your site with a database so that users can retrieve, interact and save data
Debug your application, deal with unexpected problems, and protect your site from malicious users
Use the community-maintained ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit to extend the controls that come with ASP.NET AJAX
Use personalization tools to give your site a customized look for each user
Ideal for beginning web developers, or those who are new to ASP.NET, this book gets you involved with your own learning through hands-on lessons that are clear and to the point. You get the chance to try out new techniques on the spot. Want to join the world of modern web development? This book will get you started.
Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX helps you master the concepts and techniques of Microsoft's tools with plenty of annotated examples, review quizzes, web construction exercises and chapter summaries, so you can practice new skills and test your understanding as you go. With it, you'll learn to:
Master the fundamental skills of ASP.NET 2.0 to build professional quality web applications
Integrate new Ajax tools and CSS with ASP.NET 2.0 for flashier and more interactive sites
Build applications with minimal coding using Visual Studio or its free counterpart, Visual Web Developer
Connect your site with a database so that users can retrieve, interact and save data
Debug your application, deal with unexpected problems, and protect your site from malicious users
Use the community-maintained ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit to extend the controls that come with ASP.NET AJAX
Use personalization tools to give your site a customized look for each user
Ideal for beginning web developers, or those who are new to ASP.NET, this book gets you involved with your own learning through hands-on lessons that are clear and to the point. You get the chance to try out new techniques on the spot. Want to join the world of modern web development? This book will get you started.
77Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core: Learn end-to-end web development with leading frontend frameworks, such as Angular, React, and Vue
78Professional Asp.Net Performance
This title shows the reader how to use the features offered by ASP.NET to develop efficient applications that will make the most of the hardware they run on. It covers: how ASP.NET concepts relate to application performance; designing for performance; techniques for maximizing the performance of code; using caching effectively; high performance data access; performance testing (including the ACT system that is integrated with Visual Studio .NET and the free WAS tool); tuning underperforming applications; and monitoring performance with built in and custom performance counters. The code in this book is presented in Visual Basic .NET
79C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 - Modern Cross-Platform Development - Third Edition
80Learn ASP.NET 4.0, C# and Visual Studio 2010 Expert Skills with the Smart Method
This book is very, very different to any other computer book you have ever read. The Smart Method provides an entirely new and better way to learn ASP.NET, C# and Visual Studio. Here are just five of the many ways in which this book is unique:
This book won't waste your time by teaching basic skills that you already know. All of that material is covered already in our beginner's Essential Skills book. By assuming that you are already able to use the basic features, far more ground can be covered.
This is the only book that is also available as a low-cost video (DVD). Each can be used as a stand-alone product, but together they provide an incredibly powerful learning experience.
Instruction is logically structured into sessions and lessons. While this makes the book ideal for self-instruction, you can also use it to run your own, highly effective, adult training courses.
Every lesson is presented on two facing sheets of A4 paper (the pages are much bigger than in any other ASP.NET book).
Each lesson has a sample file that models a real-world business problem.
Along with programming skills, this book teaches best practices that are often ignored by other books.
You'll immediately appreciate the value and relevance of each skill as it is taught. Advanced concepts are explained without needless technical jargon. Everything is concisely described in a simple, no-nonsense way.
From the Back Cover
Amongst other things you'll learn how to:
Use cutting-edge AJAX techniques
Use multi-threading techniques to take advantage of multiple processors
Create and use web services
Understand and use regular expressions
Manipulate graphics to create a 'captcha' system
Use ListView and Chart controls
Encrypt and decrypt data
Compress and decompress data
Use compiler directives
Use HTTP handlers and modules
Create secure and hacker-proof web applications
Companies who have taken Smart Method courses include:
AOL Time Warner, The United States Army, Daimler Chrysler, Motorola, HSBC, Barclays, American Express, Allied Irish Banks, Imperial Tobacco, Volvo, The BBC, British Petroleum, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Unilever, The Institute of Chartered Accountants, The Ministry of Defence, Keele University, Deutsche Bank, HBOS, Transport For London, The Performing Rights Society, Scottish Power, The Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman, BAE Systems, RBS, Marks & Spencer, Virgin, O2, BMW... and many, many others.
This book won't waste your time by teaching basic skills that you already know. All of that material is covered already in our beginner's Essential Skills book. By assuming that you are already able to use the basic features, far more ground can be covered.
This is the only book that is also available as a low-cost video (DVD). Each can be used as a stand-alone product, but together they provide an incredibly powerful learning experience.
Instruction is logically structured into sessions and lessons. While this makes the book ideal for self-instruction, you can also use it to run your own, highly effective, adult training courses.
Every lesson is presented on two facing sheets of A4 paper (the pages are much bigger than in any other ASP.NET book).
Each lesson has a sample file that models a real-world business problem.
Along with programming skills, this book teaches best practices that are often ignored by other books.
You'll immediately appreciate the value and relevance of each skill as it is taught. Advanced concepts are explained without needless technical jargon. Everything is concisely described in a simple, no-nonsense way.
From the Back Cover
Amongst other things you'll learn how to:
Use cutting-edge AJAX techniques
Use multi-threading techniques to take advantage of multiple processors
Create and use web services
Understand and use regular expressions
Manipulate graphics to create a 'captcha' system
Use ListView and Chart controls
Encrypt and decrypt data
Compress and decompress data
Use compiler directives
Use HTTP handlers and modules
Create secure and hacker-proof web applications
Companies who have taken Smart Method courses include:
AOL Time Warner, The United States Army, Daimler Chrysler, Motorola, HSBC, Barclays, American Express, Allied Irish Banks, Imperial Tobacco, Volvo, The BBC, British Petroleum, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Unilever, The Institute of Chartered Accountants, The Ministry of Defence, Keele University, Deutsche Bank, HBOS, Transport For London, The Performing Rights Society, Scottish Power, The Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman, BAE Systems, RBS, Marks & Spencer, Virgin, O2, BMW... and many, many others.
81Programming ASP.NET MVC 4: Developing Real-World Web Applications with ASP.NET MVC
Get up and running with ASP.NET MVC 4, and learn how to build modern server-side web applications. This guide helps you understand how the framework performs, and shows you how to use various features to solve many real-world development scenarios you’re likely to face. In the process, you’ll learn how to work with HTML, JavaScript, the Entity Framework, and other web technologies.
You’ll start by learning core concepts such as the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern, and then work your way toward advanced topics. The authors demonstrate ASP.NET MVC 4 best practices and techniques by building a sample online auction site ("EBuy") throughout the book.
Learn the similarities between ASP.NET MVC 4 and Web Forms
Use Entity Framework to create and maintain an application database
Create rich web applications, using jQuery for client-side development
Incorporate AJAX techniques into your web applications
Learn how to create and expose ASP.NET Web API services
Deliver a rich and consistent experience for mobile devices
Apply techniques for error handling, automated testing, and build automation
Use various options to deploy your ASP.NET MVC 4 application
You’ll start by learning core concepts such as the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern, and then work your way toward advanced topics. The authors demonstrate ASP.NET MVC 4 best practices and techniques by building a sample online auction site ("EBuy") throughout the book.
Learn the similarities between ASP.NET MVC 4 and Web Forms
Use Entity Framework to create and maintain an application database
Create rich web applications, using jQuery for client-side development
Incorporate AJAX techniques into your web applications
Learn how to create and expose ASP.NET Web API services
Deliver a rich and consistent experience for mobile devices
Apply techniques for error handling, automated testing, and build automation
Use various options to deploy your ASP.NET MVC 4 application
82Exam Ref 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions
83Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005
84ASP.Net for Dummies
85ASP.NET by Example
ASP.NET By Example includes the following topics: creating custom ASP.NET controls; coverage of the new ADO+ object and how to use it in ASP.NET; using ASP.NET's intrinsic, list, and validation controls; case studies of the use of ASP.NET in e-commerce; deploying and managing ASP.NET applications; and migrating from ASP to ASP.NET.
86Professional ASP.Net 4 in C# and VB
This book was written to introduce you to the features and capabilities that ASP.NET 4 offers, as well as to give you an explanation of the foundation that ASP.NET provides. We assume you have a general understanding of Web technologies, such as previous versions of ASP.NET, Active Server Pages 2.0/3.0, or JavaServer Pages. If you understand the basics of Web programming, you should not have much trouble following along with this book's content. If you are brand new to ASP.NET, be sure to check out Beginning ASP.NET 4: In C# and VB by Imar Spaanjaars (Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2010) to help you understand the basics.
In addition to working with Web technologies, we also assume that you understand basic programming constructs, such as variables, For Each loops, and object-oriented programming.
You may also be wondering whether this book is for the Visual Basic developer or the C# developer. We are happy to say that it is for both! When the code differs substantially, this book provides examples in both VB and C#.
This book explores the 4 release of ASP.NET. It covers each major new feature included in ASP.NET 4 in detail.
In addition to working with Web technologies, we also assume that you understand basic programming constructs, such as variables, For Each loops, and object-oriented programming.
You may also be wondering whether this book is for the Visual Basic developer or the C# developer. We are happy to say that it is for both! When the code differs substantially, this book provides examples in both VB and C#.
This book explores the 4 release of ASP.NET. It covers each major new feature included in ASP.NET 4 in detail.
87Mastering Unity 2D Game Development
Unity3D has long been seen as a massive 3D game-making middleware system, with lots of power and an easy-to-use editor. Now, with 2D games back in fashion, Unity has created a 2D toolset for developers with the know-how to create great, customized games.
If you are looking for a book that will show you how to make a fully functional, customizable game product with popular game functionality, then this is the book for you. You will learn how to build an RPG game, learning lots of tips and tricks along the way.
While creating your own character with its very own little village, you will come to learn about stats, 2D control systems and bounds, shaders, and basic 2D physics. Then you will dive into the big wild world that is set out for you and your character, discovering how to manage different types of scenes, scripted random events, and the dreaded encountering of enemies. Learn how to make your character ready for battle, then develop your game further by creating new levels of difficulty with editor extensions.
By the end of this book, you will be able to create, deploy, and integrate your game with your intended platforms, and have the knowledge to build and customize future Unity2D games with confidence.
If you are looking for a book that will show you how to make a fully functional, customizable game product with popular game functionality, then this is the book for you. You will learn how to build an RPG game, learning lots of tips and tricks along the way.
While creating your own character with its very own little village, you will come to learn about stats, 2D control systems and bounds, shaders, and basic 2D physics. Then you will dive into the big wild world that is set out for you and your character, discovering how to manage different types of scenes, scripted random events, and the dreaded encountering of enemies. Learn how to make your character ready for battle, then develop your game further by creating new levels of difficulty with editor extensions.
By the end of this book, you will be able to create, deploy, and integrate your game with your intended platforms, and have the knowledge to build and customize future Unity2D games with confidence.
88ASP.NET AJAX in Action
Ajax has revolutionized the way users interact with web pages today.Gone are frustrating page refreshes, lost scroll positions andintermittent interaction with a web site. Instead, we have a newgeneration of fast, rich, and more intuitive web applications. TheASP.NET AJAX framework puts the power of Ajax into the hands of webdevelopers. ASP.NET AJAX, formerly called Atlas, is a new free frameworkfrom Microsoft designed to easily add Ajax features to ASP.NETapplications. With this technology, ASP.NET developers can easily buildmore interactive and highly-personalized web applications that workacross all most popular browsers.
ASP.NET AJAX in Action is a fast-paced, example-rich tutorial designedfor ASP.NET web developers and written by ASP.NET AJAX expertsAlessandro "Garbin" Gallo, David Barkol, and Rama Krishna Vavilala. Thisbook introduces you to Ajax applications and to the ASP.NET AJAXtechnology. Beginners will appreciate the clear explanations of keyideas and terminology. Intermediate and advanced ASP.NET developers willfind a no-nonsense learning source and well-organized reference.
ASP.NET AJAX in Action offers a rich set of examples and meticulousexplanations. The extensive code samples are accompanied by accurate andrigorous explanations of the concepts behind development with ASP.NETAJAX. In this book, you will discover how to use
Microsoft Ajax LibraryPartial rendering with UpdatePanelsAdvanced client and server techniquesAjax Control Toolkit
If you are a web developer looking to bring your web pages to life andto enhance the user experience, this book is for you.
ASP.NET AJAX in Action will give you with the knowledge and tools youneed to more easily craft the next generation of Ajax applications. Withthe help of the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX framework, Ajax development hasnever been easier and more instinctive for both client-script developersand ASP.NET developers alike.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
ASP.NET AJAX in Action is a fast-paced, example-rich tutorial designedfor ASP.NET web developers and written by ASP.NET AJAX expertsAlessandro "Garbin" Gallo, David Barkol, and Rama Krishna Vavilala. Thisbook introduces you to Ajax applications and to the ASP.NET AJAXtechnology. Beginners will appreciate the clear explanations of keyideas and terminology. Intermediate and advanced ASP.NET developers willfind a no-nonsense learning source and well-organized reference.
ASP.NET AJAX in Action offers a rich set of examples and meticulousexplanations. The extensive code samples are accompanied by accurate andrigorous explanations of the concepts behind development with ASP.NETAJAX. In this book, you will discover how to use
Microsoft Ajax LibraryPartial rendering with UpdatePanelsAdvanced client and server techniquesAjax Control Toolkit
If you are a web developer looking to bring your web pages to life andto enhance the user experience, this book is for you.
ASP.NET AJAX in Action will give you with the knowledge and tools youneed to more easily craft the next generation of Ajax applications. Withthe help of the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX framework, Ajax development hasnever been easier and more instinctive for both client-script developersand ASP.NET developers alike.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
89Developing Microsoft® ASP.NET Server Controls and Components
Web Forms—the Page and Control Framework at the heart of ASP.NET—makes it easier to develop dynamic Web applications. But you can go beyond the controls that ship with ASP.NET—and power up your Web sites and applications—by creating your own server controls. You can also develop and distribute your own controls for commercial use. This comprehensive guide, direct from key insiders who really know the technology, combines conceptual and architectural details with practical, how-to information and real-world code samples to show exactly how to create custom, reusable, professional-quality server controls with rich design-time functionality. It also provides essential information about configuration and the HTTP runtime, packaging, deployment, debugging, and developing controls that incorporate XML Web services, plus other vital topics. And it introduces the ASP.NET Web Matrix tool for creating Web applications and for using server controls. Topics covered include:
OVERVIEW
ASP.NET page programming
Component programming
SERVER CONTROLS
User controls
Implementing properties
View state management
Rendering
Control life cycle
Events and Postback
Styles
Composite, validator, and data-bound controls
Client-side behavior
Design-time functionality
Localization, licensing, and deployment
SERVER COMPONENTS
XML Web services
HTTP handlers
SERVER CONTROL CASE STUDIES
Templated data-bound controls
DHTML-based server controls
“[This book] is a must-have for all serious ASP.NET component developers.”
–Scott Guthrie, Product Unit Manager, Microsoft ASP.NET Product Team
OVERVIEW
ASP.NET page programming
Component programming
SERVER CONTROLS
User controls
Implementing properties
View state management
Rendering
Control life cycle
Events and Postback
Styles
Composite, validator, and data-bound controls
Client-side behavior
Design-time functionality
Localization, licensing, and deployment
SERVER COMPONENTS
XML Web services
HTTP handlers
SERVER CONTROL CASE STUDIES
Templated data-bound controls
DHTML-based server controls
“[This book] is a must-have for all serious ASP.NET component developers.”
–Scott Guthrie, Product Unit Manager, Microsoft ASP.NET Product Team
90ASP.Net MVC in Action
The Model-View-Controller pattern—universally known as MVC—provides a stable, testable approach to web application development by separating the major functions—or concerns—of an application into independently defined roles.
ASP.NET MVC in Action is a comprehensive guide to MVC-based development using this powerful framework. It offers a clearly-written introduction both to the ASP.NET MVC Framework and to the MVC approach. The focus is on creating real, maintainable web applications—so don't expect toy examples and short snippets. The authors lead you from first-use through real-life scenarios.
One of the key benefits of the MVC approach is introducing a high degree of testability to your applications and process. ASP.NET MVC in Action shows you how to test each piece of your ASP.NET application and how to introduce principles of test-driven development into your process.
Because the framework is completely pluggable, you'll learn how to work with external Inversion of Control containers like StructureMap, Windsor, and Spring.NET and open-source persistence layers like NHibernate. Throughout the book, the authors sprinkle in MvcContrib, an extremely useful tool that provides common extensions so you don't have to write them yourself. Along the way, you'll benefit from the wide-ranging experience of the authors, who have extensive experience with ASP.NET, Monorail, and Ruby on Rails. This book assumes that you already know how to build a standard ASP.NET application and presents most examples in C#.
What's inside?
Getting started with the ASP.NET MVC Framework The model in depth The controller in depth The view in depth Routing Customizing and extending the ASP.NET MVC Framework Scaling the architecture for complex sites Leveraging existing ASP.NET features AJAX in ASP.NET MVC Hosting and deployment Exploring MonoRail and Ruby on Rails Best practices Recipes Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
What reviewers are saying
"Shows how to put all the features of ASP.NET MVC together to build a great application."
-From the Foreword by Phil Haack, Senior Program Manager, ASP.NET MVC Team, Microsoft"This book put me in control of ASP.NET MVC."
-Mark Monster, Software Engineer, Rubicon
"Highly recommended for those switching from Web Forms to MVC."
-Frank Wang, Chief Software Architect, DigitalVelocity LLC
"I'd highly recommend this to anyone who is serious about building web applications with ASP.NET MVC."
-Jeremy Skinner, ASP.NET developer and technical proofreader of the book
"...does a good job of not only showing you what to do, but also provides cautionary words to avoid poor practices that may lead to maintenance issues on non-trivial applications."
-Venkat Subramanian, NoFluffJustStuff Blogs
"I really enjoyed ASP.NET MVC in Action and highly recommend it for a fresh look at the ASP.NET MVC Framework."
-David Hayden, MVP
"In the end [the authors] not only did an excellent job of putting together a great practical guide to ASP.NET MVC they also successfully embedded some subversive ALT.NET concepts that will hopeful make us all better developers. And at the end of the day that is a damn fine accomplishment."
-Bobby Johnson
"ASP.NET MVC in Action will guide you from your first project through advanced topics such as AJAX and deploying on suboptimal hosting environments. The writing style is clear and concise. Diagrams and code examples are abundant. I recommend it for anyone looking for a great resource for learning about or becoming a better user of the ASP.NET MVC framework."
-Nathan Stott, Partner and Software Engineer at Whiteboard-IT
"I'm very happy with this book. I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in ASP.NET MVC. Getting the 'beyond the text' that comes with the CodeCampServer is just icing on the cake, truly."
-Chris Stewart, CompiledMonkey.com
"ASP.NET MVC in Action is a true masterpiece...The authors, Jeffrey Palermo, Ben Scheirman and Jimmy Bogard are all considered rock stars in the ASP.NET community and they have opened up the doors to their concert with ASP.NET MVC in Action."
-Mohammad Azam, Microsoft MVP
ASP.NET MVC in Action is a comprehensive guide to MVC-based development using this powerful framework. It offers a clearly-written introduction both to the ASP.NET MVC Framework and to the MVC approach. The focus is on creating real, maintainable web applications—so don't expect toy examples and short snippets. The authors lead you from first-use through real-life scenarios.
One of the key benefits of the MVC approach is introducing a high degree of testability to your applications and process. ASP.NET MVC in Action shows you how to test each piece of your ASP.NET application and how to introduce principles of test-driven development into your process.
Because the framework is completely pluggable, you'll learn how to work with external Inversion of Control containers like StructureMap, Windsor, and Spring.NET and open-source persistence layers like NHibernate. Throughout the book, the authors sprinkle in MvcContrib, an extremely useful tool that provides common extensions so you don't have to write them yourself. Along the way, you'll benefit from the wide-ranging experience of the authors, who have extensive experience with ASP.NET, Monorail, and Ruby on Rails. This book assumes that you already know how to build a standard ASP.NET application and presents most examples in C#.
What's inside?
Getting started with the ASP.NET MVC Framework The model in depth The controller in depth The view in depth Routing Customizing and extending the ASP.NET MVC Framework Scaling the architecture for complex sites Leveraging existing ASP.NET features AJAX in ASP.NET MVC Hosting and deployment Exploring MonoRail and Ruby on Rails Best practices Recipes Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
What reviewers are saying
"Shows how to put all the features of ASP.NET MVC together to build a great application."
-From the Foreword by Phil Haack, Senior Program Manager, ASP.NET MVC Team, Microsoft"This book put me in control of ASP.NET MVC."
-Mark Monster, Software Engineer, Rubicon
"Highly recommended for those switching from Web Forms to MVC."
-Frank Wang, Chief Software Architect, DigitalVelocity LLC
"I'd highly recommend this to anyone who is serious about building web applications with ASP.NET MVC."
-Jeremy Skinner, ASP.NET developer and technical proofreader of the book
"...does a good job of not only showing you what to do, but also provides cautionary words to avoid poor practices that may lead to maintenance issues on non-trivial applications."
-Venkat Subramanian, NoFluffJustStuff Blogs
"I really enjoyed ASP.NET MVC in Action and highly recommend it for a fresh look at the ASP.NET MVC Framework."
-David Hayden, MVP
"In the end [the authors] not only did an excellent job of putting together a great practical guide to ASP.NET MVC they also successfully embedded some subversive ALT.NET concepts that will hopeful make us all better developers. And at the end of the day that is a damn fine accomplishment."
-Bobby Johnson
"ASP.NET MVC in Action will guide you from your first project through advanced topics such as AJAX and deploying on suboptimal hosting environments. The writing style is clear and concise. Diagrams and code examples are abundant. I recommend it for anyone looking for a great resource for learning about or becoming a better user of the ASP.NET MVC framework."
-Nathan Stott, Partner and Software Engineer at Whiteboard-IT
"I'm very happy with this book. I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in ASP.NET MVC. Getting the 'beyond the text' that comes with the CodeCampServer is just icing on the cake, truly."
-Chris Stewart, CompiledMonkey.com
"ASP.NET MVC in Action is a true masterpiece...The authors, Jeffrey Palermo, Ben Scheirman and Jimmy Bogard are all considered rock stars in the ASP.NET community and they have opened up the doors to their concert with ASP.NET MVC in Action."
-Mohammad Azam, Microsoft MVP
91Developing Web Applications With Asp. Net And C#
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.
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.
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92Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-486—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of developing ASP.NET MVC-based solutions. Designed for experienced developers ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Specialist level.
Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:
Design the application architecture
Design the user experience
Develop the user experience
Troubleshoot and debug web applications
Design and implement security
This Microsoft Exam Ref:
Organizes its coverage by exam objectives.
Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you.
Includes a 15% exam discount from Microsoft. (Limited time offer)
Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:
Design the application architecture
Design the user experience
Develop the user experience
Troubleshoot and debug web applications
Design and implement security
This Microsoft Exam Ref:
Organizes its coverage by exam objectives.
Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you.
Includes a 15% exam discount from Microsoft. (Limited time offer)
93MCPD 70-519 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4
Prepare for MCPD Exam 70-519—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of web application design and development—with this official Microsoft® Exam Ref. Written for experienced, MCTS-certified professionals ready to advance their status—this guide focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCPD level. With concise, objective-by-objective reviews, strategic case scenarios, and "Thought Experiments", you get professional-level preparation for the professional-level exam.
Optimize your exam-prep by focusing on the expertise needed to:
Design the application architecture
Choose the right server-side and client-side technologies
Design the user experience
Design data access and presentation
Plan for security
Choose a testing methodology
Plan for scalability and reliability
You also get an exam discount voucher—making this book an exceptional value and a great career investment.
Optimize your exam-prep by focusing on the expertise needed to:
Design the application architecture
Choose the right server-side and client-side technologies
Design the user experience
Design data access and presentation
Plan for security
Choose a testing methodology
Plan for scalability and reliability
You also get an exam discount voucher—making this book an exceptional value and a great career investment.
94Professional ASP.Net 4.5 in C# and VB
The all-new approach for experienced ASP.NET professionals!
ASP.NET is Microsoft's technology for building dynamically generated web pages from database content. Originally introduced in 2002, ASP.NET has undergone many changes in multiple versions and iterations as developers have gained a decade of experience with this popular technology. With that decade of experience, this edition of the book presents a fresh, new overhauled approach.
A new focus on how to build ASP.NET sites and applications relying on field-tested reliable methods Integration of "One ASP.NET" philosophy treating ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC as equal tools each with their proper time and place Coverage of hot new ASP.NET 4.5 additions such as the Web API, Websockets and HTML5 & CSS3 use in layout but only to the extent that the tools themselves are practical and useful for working ASP.NET developers Professional ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB is an essential tool for programmers who need to be productive and build reliably performing sites with the latest ASP.NET Framework and Visual Studio.
ASP.NET is Microsoft's technology for building dynamically generated web pages from database content. Originally introduced in 2002, ASP.NET has undergone many changes in multiple versions and iterations as developers have gained a decade of experience with this popular technology. With that decade of experience, this edition of the book presents a fresh, new overhauled approach.
A new focus on how to build ASP.NET sites and applications relying on field-tested reliable methods Integration of "One ASP.NET" philosophy treating ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC as equal tools each with their proper time and place Coverage of hot new ASP.NET 4.5 additions such as the Web API, Websockets and HTML5 & CSS3 use in layout but only to the extent that the tools themselves are practical and useful for working ASP.NET developers Professional ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB is an essential tool for programmers who need to be productive and build reliably performing sites with the latest ASP.NET Framework and Visual Studio.
95Concurrency in .NET: Modern patterns of concurrent and parallel programming
Concurrency in .NET teaches you how to build concurrent and scalable programs in .NET using the functional paradigm. This intermediate-level guide is aimed at developers, architects, and passionate computer programmers who are interested in writing code with improved speed and effectiveness by adopting a declarative and pain-free programming style.
96McTs Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-562): Microsofta .Net Framework 3.5aasp.Net Application Development: Microsoft(r) .Net Framework 3.5 ASP.Net Application Development
Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-562—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce and apply what you’ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.
Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:
Program a new application; add and configure server controls Manage data input, user state, and security Implement data source controls and data-bound controls Use AJAX-enabled forms and scripts Create and consume XML Web services and WFC services Design for accessibility, globalization, and mobility Debug, deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot applications Assess your skills with the practice tests on CD.
You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.
Your kit includes:
15% exam discount from Microsoft. (Limited time offer). Details inside.
Official self-paced study guide.
Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
325 practice and review questions.
Code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# on CD.
90-day trial of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition.
Case scenarios, exercises, and best practices.
Fully searchable eBook of this guide, plus sample chapters from related books.
A Note Regarding the CD or DVD
The practice test materials are available as a download along with your ebook version of the kit, and will be located in your account. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.
Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:
Program a new application; add and configure server controls Manage data input, user state, and security Implement data source controls and data-bound controls Use AJAX-enabled forms and scripts Create and consume XML Web services and WFC services Design for accessibility, globalization, and mobility Debug, deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot applications Assess your skills with the practice tests on CD.
You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.
Your kit includes:
15% exam discount from Microsoft. (Limited time offer). Details inside.
Official self-paced study guide.
Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
325 practice and review questions.
Code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# on CD.
90-day trial of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition.
Case scenarios, exercises, and best practices.
Fully searchable eBook of this guide, plus sample chapters from related books.
A Note Regarding the CD or DVD
The practice test materials are available as a download along with your ebook version of the kit, and will be located in your account. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.
97ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips
This unique book offers readers invaluable information from the cream of the crop-Microsoft MVPs-who are now sharing undocumented hacks for the first time Packed with superlative advice on ASP, Microsoft's popular technology for Web sites, this book will help readers become more productive developers, find solutions to problems they thought unsolvable, and develop better applications During their many years of working with ASP.NET, Microsoft MVPs have answered thousands of questions, putting them in the distinctive position of knowing exactly what readers need to know Many of the hacks will apply to multiple versions of ASP.NET, not just 2.0 but 1.0 and 1.1 as well This book is also available as part of the 5-book ASP.NET 2.0 Wrox Box (ISBN: 0-470-11757-5). This 5-book set includes:
Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition (ISBN: 0-470-04178-1) ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution (ISBN: 0764584642 ) Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management (ISBN: 0764596985) Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control and Component Development (ISBN: 0471793507) ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips (ISBN: 0764597663) CD-ROM with more than 1000 pages of bonus chapters from 15 other .NET 2.0 and SQL Server(TM) 2005 Wrox books DVD with 180-day trial version of Microsoft(r) Visual Studio(r) 2005 Professional Edition
Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition (ISBN: 0-470-04178-1) ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution (ISBN: 0764584642 ) Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management (ISBN: 0764596985) Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control and Component Development (ISBN: 0471793507) ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips (ISBN: 0764597663) CD-ROM with more than 1000 pages of bonus chapters from 15 other .NET 2.0 and SQL Server(TM) 2005 Wrox books DVD with 180-day trial version of Microsoft(r) Visual Studio(r) 2005 Professional Edition
98Building Web Solutions with ASP.Net and ADO.NET
Most Web applications follow a simple “3F” pattern: fetch, format, and forward to the browser. With this in-depth guide, you’ll take your ASP.NET and ADO.NET skills to the next level and learn key techniques to develop more complex Web applications. Discover how to build applications for ad-hoc and effective Web reporting, applications that work disconnected from the data source and use XML to communicate with non-.NET systems, and general-purpose applications that take advantage of the data abstraction of ADO.NET. Along the way, you’ll learn how to take advantage of code reusability, user controls, code-behind, custom Web controls, and other time-saving techniques employed by ASP.NET experts.
Topics covered include:
Data-bound .NET controls Templated and editable data grids Code reusability in .NET Advanced reporting Disconnected applications Interoperable applications XML Web services .NET Managed Providers CD-ROM FEATURES:
A fully searchable electronic copy of the book Sample code written in Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET and Visual Basic® .NET A Note Regarding the CD or DVD
The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.
Topics covered include:
Data-bound .NET controls Templated and editable data grids Code reusability in .NET Advanced reporting Disconnected applications Interoperable applications XML Web services .NET Managed Providers CD-ROM FEATURES:
A fully searchable electronic copy of the book Sample code written in Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET and Visual Basic® .NET A Note Regarding the CD or DVD
The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.
99Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days (2nd Edition)
100ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action
Microsoft ASP.NET MVC (model/view/controller) is a relatively new Web application framework that combines ASP.NET's power and ease of use with the stability and testability of a MVC framework. The much-anticipated version 2 release brings new capabilities to the framework along with numerous additions that enhance developer productivity. In ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action, readers learn how to move from web form-based development to designs based on the MVC pattern. It begins with an introduction to the MVC framework and quickly dives into a working MVC 2 project.
Featuring full coverage of new version 2 features, this book helps readers use developer-oriented upgrades like "Areas" to break a large project into smaller pieces and explore the new data handling tools. This revised edition adds a completely new tutorial to bring developers with no prior exposure to the MVC pattern up to speed quickly, keeping its focus on providing high-quality, professional grade examples that go deeper than the other ASP.NET MVC books.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
Featuring full coverage of new version 2 features, this book helps readers use developer-oriented upgrades like "Areas" to break a large project into smaller pieces and explore the new data handling tools. This revised edition adds a completely new tutorial to bring developers with no prior exposure to the MVC pattern up to speed quickly, keeping its focus on providing high-quality, professional grade examples that go deeper than the other ASP.NET MVC books.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.