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Table of contents

Introduction to VS 2005
Application and Page Frameworks
GUI Controls
Validation Server Controls
Working with Master Pages
Themes & Skins
Collections & Lists
Data Binding
Data Management with ADO.Net
Working with XML
Site Navigation
Security
State Management
Caching
Debugging & Error Handling
File I/O & Streams
Configurations

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Introduction to VS 2005
Visual Studio 2005 is an IDE that is used to
create ASPX pages (Web application)
Creation of web application also creates a set of
files.
Web application exists only in the location
specified by IIS virtual folder.
In a system, the web root folder is //localhost
This is the virtual folder
The physical path for this virtual folder is
\\inetpub\wwwroot
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What can you find in a VS

We can see these windows when we open
the Visual Studio
Property Window Shows the properties of a
control(Page or button or textbox)
Solution Explorer Shows the files that a
opened project has
Output Window Shows the result of a
compilation or execution of a program
Error List Shows the compilation errors etc.
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IIS Internet Information Services

IIS is a web server that comes along with .Net
We can configure IIS using inetmgr
In the Start Menu, choose Run and type inetmgr. We will
get a window that lists the websites present in the
system.

For creating a virtual directory, right click on the default

website and select New -> Virtual Directory.
Give the alias name
Give the physical path
Give the access permissions and click finish.
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ASP .Net
Used to create web applications and web
services that run under IIS
ASP.NET is a collection of .NET classes
that collaborate to process an HTTP
request and generate an HTTP response
Helps us in creating Dynamic Web pages
Dynamic web pages Pages will be
generated at the server based on the users
request and then given back to the client
(user)
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ASP .Net Framework

ASP.NET is a managed server-side framework
For building applications based on HTTP, HTML, XML
and SOAP
ASP.NET relies on IIS for an HTTP entry point
ASP.NET supports building HTML-based Web
Applications
Based on ASP.NET pages, Web forms and serverside controls
ASP.NET supports building Web Services
Based on Web service classes and WebMethods

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Life cycle of a web page

Page_Init
This is called when page is initialized. We can declare some variables which
need to be initialized before page is loaded

Page_Load
The server controls are loaded in the page .This event is called every time when
page is loaded

Control_Event
This event is fired when control like button are clicked or changed

Page_Unload
This event occurs when a page is Unloaded from memory

Page_Dispose
This event occurs when a page is released from memory

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Life cycle of a web application

The Life of web application begins when a user requests
for a page through the browser (client)
When IIS receives request from client it calls ASP. NET
worker process
The ASP.NET worker process loads the assembly
The executable creates an instance of web form
Generates the HTML page to respond to the request
Posts the response to browser and then it destroys the
instance of the web form
Then browser receives the generated HTML

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Life cycle of a web application

(Contd..)
Client Performs tasks like button click
The pages data is sent back to server
When server receives this page it creates
new instance of web form
Processes the event occurred
Then again send back HTML and destroys
the page
When user stops the web application for a
period of time session ends
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ASP .Net Advantages

Executable portion of a web application are compiled

Enriched tool support
Applications are based on CLR
Common Language Runtime

On the fly updates deployed without restarting server

Better session management
Integration with ADO.NET
Built in features for caching
Create XML Web services
Browser-independent
Language-independent

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Application and Page

Framework

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ASP .Net Applications

Each application is based on IIS virtual
directory
Each application is contained within a physical
directory
Each application runs in its own isolated
AppDomain
Namespace must for this application is
System.Web

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ASP .Net Pages

Code and Design are separated
Design file ASPX file
Contains ASPX or HTML tags

Code file called as code behind file

Has the programming logic
Programming language can be
C#
VB .Net
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ASP .Net Pages (Contd..)

ASPX Page has
<asp:Button id=LookUp OnClick=btnSubmit_Click />

C# file will have

btnSubmit_Click() { ... }

The code behind page is inherited from

System.Web.UI.Page class
The .aspx file containing the user interface
is inherited from code behind class

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Files in a Web application Project

AssemblyInfo.cs
All the information about assembly including version, company
name etc
Default.aspx
The visual description of a Web form.
Default.aspx.cs
The code behind that responds to events on the Web form
Default.aspx.resx
XML resources used by web form
Global.asax
The global events that occur in web applications
Web.config
Configuration contents like authentication mode, error files etc.
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GUI Controls

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Server Control

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Web Controls
System.Object
System.Web.UI.Control

WebControl
ListControl

Table

ListBox

Button

CheckBoxList
...

TextBox
...
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Postback event
These events cause the web page to be
sent back to the server for immediate
processing
When page is posted back ,the Page_Init,
Page _Load events are handled
The page is submitted back and renders a
new version of itself back to the user

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Validation Controls
ASP .Net provides 5 validation controls that are
used to check the validity of data entered by the
user in the server controls on the web page.
Client side validation is also possible through a
Jscript library WebUIValidation.js

Required field validator

Regular expression validator
Compare validator
Range validator
Custom validator

Validation summary
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Required Field Validator

To check whether a control contains data
Properties:
ControlToValidate
ErrorMessage
Text

Method:
Validate

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Regular Expression Validator

To check whether the entered data matches a specific
format
Properties
ControlToValidate
ValidationExpression
ErrorMessage

Method
Validate

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Compare Validator
To compare values entered in two controls
Properties:

ControlToCompare
ControlToValidate
ErrorMessage
ValueToCompare

Method:
Validate

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Range Validator
To compare whether the entered value is
between two specified values
Properties:

ControlToValidate
ErrorMessage
Type
MaximumValue
MinimumValue

Method:
Validate
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Custom Validator
To Check the validity of an entered item using a
client-side script or a server-side code, or both
Properties:
ControlToValidate
ErrorMessage

Events:
ServerValidate

Method:
OnServerValidate
Validate
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Validation Summary
To Display validation errors in a central location or
display a general validation error description
Properties:
HeadText
ShowMessageBox
ShowSummary

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User Controls

We can create our own controls in addition to HTML and Web

controls
User controls offer you an easy way to partition and reuse common
user interface (UI) functionality across your ASP.NET Web
applications
User controls are not compiled until run time
You can simply drag and drop them on the page and start using
them
To create a user control:
Add a new item ( select user control as a template) and give it a name
Heading.ascx
The following description can be seen in HTML view

<%@Control Language="c#" AutoEventWireup="false"

Codebehind="Heading.ascx.cs>
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Using a User Control

To use a user control, just drag the ascx
file from the solution explorer and drop it
on the design area of the aspx page
Or give like this in the html view of the
aspx page
In the head portion
<
%@Register TagPrefix="uc1" TagName="Heading" src="Headin
g.ascx"%
>

In the body portion

<uc1 id=user1/>

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Calendar Control

The Calendar Web server control displays a traditional one-month calendar

on your Web Forms pages
Few properties:
SelectedDate
SelectedDates
BackColor
Few methods:
AddDays()
AddMonths()
AddYears()
GetMonth()
GetYear()
GetDayOfWeek()
IsLeapYear()
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DateTime
DateTime is a static class. Members can be accessed via
DateTime.Now and so on.
The DateTime value type represents dates and times with values
ranging from 12:00:00 midnight, January 1, 0001 Common Era to
11:59:59 P.M., December 31, 9999 C.E.
Few properties:
Today
Now
Date
Few Methods:
AddDays()
AddMonths()
Compare()
ToLongDateString()
ToShortDateString()
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DataGrid Control

Full-featured list output

Default is to show all columns

Can specify a subset of columns to display

Provides templates
Standard
Custom

Provides paging

Provides data updates

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Repeater Control

Provides simple output of list of items

Templates provide the visual form
It iterates over the bound data
Display format of data is managed
Does not support paging
Provides templates for separators
Does not provide data updates
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Standard templates for Repeater controls

HeaderTemplate
Rendered before all data bound rows
ItemTemplate
Rendered for each row in the data source
AlternatingItemTemplate
Rendered for every other row
SeparatorTemplate
Rendered between each row
FooterTemplate
Rendered after all data bound rows
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Binding data
To bind embedded controls to the data source of the
container control
DataBinder.Eval() method is used
Syntax
<
%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,D
ataFieldname")%>
Container represents the container for data items
DataFieldname represents the name of data item field
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