Beginning ASP.NET for Visual Studio 2015

The complete guide to the productivity and performance enhancements in ASP.NET

Beginning ASP.NET for Visual Studio 2015 is your ultimate guide to the latest upgrade of this historically popular framework. Fully updated to align with the vNext release, this new edition walks you through the new tools and features that make your workflow smoother and your applications stronger. You'll get up to speed on the productivity and performance improvements, and learn how Microsoft has committed itself to more continuous innovation by increasing its release cadence for all products and services going forward. Coverage includes Async-aware debugging, ADO.NET idle connection resiliency, managed return value inspection, ASP.NET app suspension, on-demand large object heap compaction, multi-core JIT and more.

The news of an off-cycle update to ASP.NET came as a surprise, but its announcement garnered cheers at the 2014 Microsoft BUILD conference. This guide shows you what all the fuss is about, and how Microsoft overhauled the latest ASP.NET release.

• Get acquainted with the new developer productivity features

• Master the new tools that build better applications

• Discover what's new in Windows Store app development

• Learn how Microsoft fixed the issues that kept you from v5

Over 38 million websites are currently using ASP.NET, and the new upgrade is already leading to increased adoption. Programmers need to master v6 to remain relevant as web development moves forward. Beginning ASP.NET for Visual Studio 2015 walks you through the details, and shows you what you need to know so you can get up and running quickly.

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About the author

William Penberthy has specialized in the Microsoft software development stack since the initial deployment of .NET, performing client, service, and
web development in C# and VB.NET. He has directly participated in the development of over 135 different applications, ranging from record retention management software, to e-Commerce storefronts, to geographic information systems, to point-of-sale systems and many applications in between.

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INTRODUCTION xxi

CHAPTER 1: GETTING STARTED WITH ASP.NET 6.0 1

An Introduction to ASP.NET vNext 2

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 2

Microsoft Internet Information Services 5

HTML 5 5

HTML Markup 5

Attributes in HTML 7

HTML Example 8

ASP.NET Web Forms 10

ViewState 10

ASP.NET Web Forms Events and Page Lifecycle 11

Control Library 13

ASP.NET MVC 15

Testability 16

Full Control over Output 17

Web Forms and MVC Similarities 17

Choosing the Best Approach 17

Using Visual Studio 2015 18

Versions 18

Downloading and Installing 19

The Sample Application 23

Summary 24

CHAPTER 2: BUILDING AN INITIAL ASP.NET APPLICATION 27

Creating Websites with Visual Studio 2015 28

Available Project Types 28

Web Site ProjectBased Approach 28

Web Application Project 29

Creating a New Site 30

While Creating a Project 30

Empty Template 34

Web Forms Template 35

MVC Template 36

Web API Template 36

Single Page Application Template 37

Azure Mobile Service Template 38

Working with Files in Your Application 38

File Types of an ASP.NET MVC Application 38

File System Structure of an ASP.NET MVC Application 41

File Types of an ASP.NET Web Forms Application 43

MVC and Web Form File Differences 46

Creating the Sample Application 47

Summary 49

CHAPTER 3: DESIGNING YOUR WEB PAGES 51

HTML and CSS 52

Why Use Both HTML and CSS? 52

An Introduction to CSS 54

More CSS 58

Selectors 58

Properties 61

Precedence in Styles 65

The Style Sheet 67

Adding CSS to Your Pages 68

Creating Embedded and Inline Style Sheets 71

Applying Styles 72

Managing Styles 78

Summary 84

CHAPTER 4: PROGRAMMING IN C# AND VB.NET 87

Introduction to Programming 87

Data Types and Variables 88

Defi ning a Variable 88

Operators 91

Converting and Casting Data Types 93

Converting Data Types 93

Casting Data Types 96

Using Arrays and Collections 97

Using Arrays 97

Using Collections 99

Decision-Making Operations 101

Comparison Operators 102

Logical Operators 103

If Statement 104

Switch/Select Case Statement 106

Loops 106

For Loop 106

Foreach/For Each Loops 108

While Loop 109

Exiting Loops 110

Organizing Code 110

Methods: Functions and Subroutines 110

Writing Comments and Documentation 112

Object-Oriented Programming Basics 114

Important OO Terminology 115

Classes 115

Fields 116

Properties 117

Methods 120

Constructors 120

Inheritance 121

Events 123

Summary 125

CHAPTER 5: ASP.NET WEB FORM SERVER CONTROLS 129

Introduction to Server Controls 129

Defining Controls in Your Pages 130

Types of Controls 137

Standard Controls 138

HTML Controls 143

Data Controls 144

Validation Controls 144

Navigation Controls 145

Login Controls 145

AJAX Extensions 146

Other Control Sets 146

The ASP.NET State Engine 147

How the State Engine Works 148

Summary 157

CHAPTER 6: ASP.NET MVC HELPERS AND EXTENSIONS 161

Why MVC Has Fewer Controls Than Web Forms 162 A Different Approach 162</p&...