ASPNET 35 Unleashed or Facebook Book

ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed

Author: Stephen Walther

ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed is the most comprehensive book available on the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Framework, covering all aspects of the ASP.NET 3.5 Framework--no matter how advanced.

This edition covers all the new features of ASP.NET 3.5. It explains Microsoft LINQ to SQL in detail. It includes a chapter on the two new data access controls introduced with the ASP.NET 3.5 Framework: ListView and DataPager. With its coverage of ASP.NET AJAX, this book shows you how to take advantage of Microsoft's server-side AJAX framework to retrofit existing ASP.NET applications with AJAX functionality. It also demonstrates how to use Microsoft's client-side AJAX framework to build the web applications of the future: pure client-side AJAX applications. All code samples are written in the C# programming language. (Visual Basic versions of all code samples are included on the CD-ROM that accompanies this book.)

• Take advantage of Microsoft's new database query language, LINQ to SQL, to easily build database-driven web applications
• Learn how to use the new ListView and DataPager data access controls to build flexible user interfaces
• Take advantage of ASP.NET AJAX when building both server-side and client-side web applications
• Use the AJAX Control Toolkit to create auto-complete text fields, draggable panels, masked edit fields, and complex animations
• Design ASP.NET websites
• Secure your ASP.NET applications
• Create custom components
• Build highly interactive websites that can scale to handle thousands of simultaneous users
• Learn to build a complete ASP.NET 3.5 website from start to finish–the last chapter of the book includes a sample ASP.NET 3.5 web application written with LINQ to SQL and ASP.NET AJAX

CD-ROM includes all examples and source code presented in this book in both C# and Visual Basic.

Table of Contents:

PART I : Building ASP.NET Pages

Chapter 1 -- Overview of the ASP.NET Framework

Chapter 2 -- Using the Standard Controls

Chapter 3 -- Using the Validation Controls

Chapter 4 -- Using the Rich Controls

PART II: Designing ASP.NET Websites

Chapter 5 -- Designing Websites with Master Pages

Chapter 6 -- Designing Websites with Themes

Chapter 7 -- Creating Custom Controls with User Controls

PART III: Performing Data Access

Chapter 8 -- Overview of Data Access

Chapter 9 -- Using the SqlDataSource Control

Chapter 10 -- Using List Controls

Chapter 11 -- Using the GridView Control

Chapter 12 -- Using the DetailsView and FormView Controls

Chapter 13 -- Using the Repeater and DataList Controls

Chapter 14 -- Using the ListView and DataPager Controls

PART IV: Building Components

Chapter 15 -- Building Components

Chapter 16 -- Using the ObjectDataSource Control

Chapter 17 -- Building Data Access Components with ADO.NET

Chapter 18 -- Data Access with LINQ to SQL

PART V: Site Navigation

Chapter 19 -- Using the Navigation Controls

Chapter 20 -- Using Site Maps

Chapter 21 -- Advanced Navigation

PART VI: Security

Chapter 22 -- Using the Login Controls

Chapter 23 -- Using ASP.NET Membership

PART VII: Building ASP.NET Applications

Chapter 24 -- Maintaining Application State

Chapter 25 -- Caching Application Pages and Data

Chapter 26 -- Localizing Applications for Multiple Languages

Chapter 27 -- Working with the HTTP Runtime

Chapter 28 -- Configuring Applications

PART VIII: Custom Control Building  

Chapter 29 -- Building CustomControls

Chapter 30 -- Building Templated Databound Controls

PART IX: ASP.NET AJAX

Chapter 31 -- Using Server-Side ASP.NET AJAX

Chapter 32 -- Using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

Chapter 33 -- Using Client-Side ASP.NET AJAX

PART X: Sample Application

Chapter 34 -- Building a Code Sample Website

 

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Facebook Book

Author: Greg Atwan

The Facebook Book, by Harvard alums and early Booksters Atwan and Lushing, follows in the fine satirical tradition of The Official Preppy Handbook and The Hipster Handbook, full of anecdotes (true and semi-true), tips (useful and useless), and other insights, including chapters on the Ethics and Etiquette of using the 'Book, what your profile really says about you, and a Facebook dictionary (which defines for the uninitiated terms like "frenemey" and "fauxmance"). The Facebook Book will appeal not only to undergrads, but also high schoolers (to whom the site was recently opened), savvy parents, and anyone who's tapped into Web 2.0 culture and counterculture.