ASP.NET in a Nutshell 2e

This a concise, one-volume reference to everything you need to make effective use of ASP.NET. An invaluable resource that goes beyond the published documentation to highlight little-known details, stress practical uses for particular features, and provide real-world examples that show how features can be used in a working application, ASP.NET in a Nutshell is the definitive guide for developers of both applications and web services. Newly updated for Visual Studio .NET 2003, the second edition of this book includes fresh information on application and Web service development, custom controls, data access, security, deployment, and error handling, plus an overview of the class libraries. For developers who still use Microsoft’s older ASP technology, this book also provides information for migrating to ASP.NET. The material is presented in three sections: a fast-paced introduction to ASP.NET that examines topics such as building ASP.NET applications, developing web services, creating custom controls and user controls for maximum code reuse, debugging and handling errors, understanding ASP.NET security, and configuring and deploying an ASP.N ET application; a detailed reference to the properties, methods, and events of the most frequently used ASP.NET classes which include the Page class and the new .NET classes, such as HttpApplicationState and HttpSessionState, which correspond to the intrinsic objects in classic ASP. Configuration settings in Web.config are also documented.