With help from Microsoft ASP.NET insider Bradley Millington, this book will be the first book available on ASP.NET Databases when the first beta is put into wide distribution in 2004.
The book covers both VB.NET and C# coding for ASP.NET databases so readers don't have to decide up front which language they want more and retailers no longer have to manage inventory on separate language versions.
By returning to a single lead author (John Kauffman) with technical input and guidance from one other technical expert (Bradley Millington), the book regains cohesiveness and a single voice and vision.
This edition is completely written from scratch on ASP.NET "Whidbey" to insure the coverage is most appropriate for this greatly changed version.
The book focuses on solving business problems in a logical progression from connecting to displaying to changing the data. Additional chapters cover enhancements to the presentation and alternate types of data. The book follows Kauffman's practice of going beyond the basic techniques to discuss the permutations, pitfalls and best practices that occur in real business scenarios.
1. Introduction.
2. Connecting to Microsoft Access.
3. Connecting to SQL Server, MSDE, and SSE.
4. Connecting to Other Relational Databases.
5. Displaying Data in Tables.
6. Customizing the Apperance of Tables.
7. Sorting and Paging Data in Tables.
8. Displaying Data in Lists.
9. Filtering and Master-Child Data.
10. Displaying Data in Templates.
11. Updating and Deleting Data.
12. Inserting new Records.
13. Business Objects as a Source of Data.
14. Databinsding to XML.
15. Caching Data.
16. Handling Events.
Appendix A: SQL Server Express.
Appendix B: Exercise Answers.
Index.