CONTENTS

Chapter 2: Visual Studio.....................................................................................21

Introducing Visual Studio...............................................................................................21
Websites and Web Projects ..................................................................................................................22
Creating a Projectless Website.............................................................................................................23
Designing a Web Page..........................................................................................................................28

The Visual Studio IDE.....................................................................................................35

Solution Explorer ..................................................................................................................................37
Document Window ...............................................................................................................................38
Toolbox .................................................................................................................................................38
Error List and Task List.........................................................................................................................39
Server Explorer.....................................................................................................................................41

The Code Editor .............................................................................................................42

Adding Assembly References ...............................................................................................................43
IntelliSense and Outlining.....................................................................................................................46
Visual Studio 2010 Improvements........................................................................................................50

The Code Model .............................................................................................................56

How Code-Behind Files Are Connected to Pages .................................................................................59
How Control Tags Are Connected to Page Variables ............................................................................60
How Events Are Connected to Event Handlers .....................................................................................61

Web Projects..................................................................................................................63
Creating a Web Project .........................................................................................................................64
Migrating a Website from a Previous Version of Visual Studio.............................................................66

Visual Studio Debugging................................................................................................68

Single-Step Debugging.........................................................................................................................69
Variable Watches..................................................................................................................................72
Advanced Breakpoints..........................................................................................................................74

The Web Development Helper .......................................................................................74

Summary .......................................................................................................................76
Chapter 3: Web Forms........................................................................................77
Page Processing ............................................................................................................78
HTML Forms .........................................................................................................................................78

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