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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 user’s
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 server-
side 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 page’s 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="Heading.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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