Pro ASP.NET 3.5 Server Controls and AJAX Components

Pro ASP.NET 3.5 Server Controls and AJAX Components is a reference for the serious ASP.NET developer who understands the benefits of object–oriented development and wants to apply those principles to ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX, and server control development. This book also covers SharePoint and targets the latest version of Visual Studio (2008) and the .NET Framework (3.5). Highlights include the following:

* Covers the new features in ASP.NET 3.5 and ASP.NET AJAX technology
* Describes the ASP.NET server control architecture in Visual Studio 2008/ASP.NET 3.5 covering state management, events, rendering, cross-platform support, control life cycle, localization, and deployment.
* Demonstrates how to integrate client–side development technologies such as DHTML and JavaScript with server control technology to create powerful interactive controls

What you’ll learn

* Create a powerful suite of interactive controls using ASP.NET 3.5 and ASP.NET AJAX.
* Enrich the design–time experience when building custom server controls.
* Integrate client–side development technologies such as DHTML and JavaScript with server control technology.
* Develop SharePoint server controls.
* Learn the background on user controls as compared to server controls.
* Work with the new mobile controls in ASP.NET 3.5.

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Info: Amazon - APress
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ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed

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

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Info: Amazon - Amazon UK - Buy.Com - O'Reilly
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