ASP.

NET
Abd Rahman Bin Ahmad
 Chapters
 ASP.Net And The .Net Frame
 Events
 Controls And ASP Controls Details
 Programming Web Forms
 Tracing, Debugging And Error Handling
 Validation
 Data Binding
 List Bound Controls
 Accessing Data With Ado.Net
 Ado Data Updates
 List Bound Controls
 Customs And User Controls
 Consuming Web Services
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 What is ASP
 ASP is a server side scripting technology that enables
scripts (embedded in web pages) to be executed by an
Internet server.
 ASP is a Microsoft Technology
 ASP stands for Active Server Pages
 ASP is a program that runs inside IIS
 IIS stands for Internet Information Services
 IIS comes as a free component with Windows 2000
 IIS is also a part of the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack
 The Option Pack can be downloaded from Microsoft
 PWS is a smaller - but fully functional - version of IIS
 PWS can be found on your Windows 95/98 CD
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 What is an ASP File?
 An ASP file is just the same as an HTML file
 An ASP file can contain text, HTML, XML, and
scripts
 Scripts in an ASP file are executed on the
server
 An ASP file has the file extension ".asp"
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 How Does it Work?
 When a browser requests an HTML file, the
server returns the file
 When a browser requests an ASP file, IIS
passes the request to the ASP engine on the
server
 The ASP engine reads the file, line by line, and
executes the scripts in the file
 Finally, the ASP file is returned to the browser as
plain HTML
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 What is ASP.NET?
 ASP 3.0 is the latest version of ASP, but there will
never be an ASP 4.0 version.
 ASP.NET is the next generation ASP, but it's not an
upgraded version of ASP. ASP.NET is an entirely new
paradigm for server-side ASP scripting.
 ASP.NET is a part of the .NET Framework. Microsoft
spent three years rewriting ASP.NET from the ground
up, and ASP.NET is not fully backward compatible
with ASP 3.0.
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 .NET Framework
 The .NET Framework is the infrastructure for the Microsoft .NET
platform. 
 The .NET Framework is an environment for building, deploying, and
running Web applications and Web Services.
 The .NET Framework contains a common language runtime and
common class libraries - like ADO.NET, ASP.NET and Windows
Forms - to provide advanced standard services that can be
integrated into a variety of computer systems.
 The .NET Framework provides a feature-rich application
environment, simplified development and easy integration between
a numbers of different development languages.
 The .NET Framework is language neutral. Currently it supports C++,
C#, Visual Basic, and JScript (Microsoft's version of JavaScript).
 Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET is a common development
environment for the .NET Framework.
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 New in ASP .NET
 Better language support
 Programmable controls
 Event-driven programming
 XML-based components
 User authentication, with accounts and roles
 Higher scalability
 Increased performance - Compiled code
 Easier configuration and deployment
 Not fully ASP compatible
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 ASP .NET uses the new ADO .NET.
 ASP .NET supports full Visual Basic, not
VBScript.
 ASP .NET supports C# (C sharp) and C+
+.
 ASP .NET supports JScript as before.
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 ASP .NET Controls
 ASP .NET contains a large set of HTML controls. Almost all HTML
elements on a page can be defined as ASP .NET control objects that
can be controlled by scripts.
 ASP .NET also contains a new set of object oriented input controls,
like programmable list boxes and validation controls.
 A new data grid control supports sorting, data paging, and everything
you expect from a dataset control.
 Event Aware Controls
 All ASP .NET objects on a Web page can expose events that can be
processed by ASP .NET code.
 Load, Click and Change events handled by code makes coding much
simpler and much better organized.
 ASP .NET Components
 ASP .NET components are heavily based on XML. Like the new AD
Rotator, that uses XML to store advertisement information and
configuration.
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 User Authentication
 ASP .NET supports forms-based user authentication, including
cookie management and automatic redirecting of unauthorized logins.
 (You can still do your custom login page and custom user checking).
 User Accounts and Roles
 ASP .NET allows for user accounts and roles, to give each user (with
a given role) access to different server code and executables.
 High Scalability
 Much has been done with ASP .NET to provide greater scalability.
 Server to server communication has been greatly enhanced, making
it possible to scale an application over several servers. One example
of this is the ability to run XML parsers, XSL transformations and
even resource hungry session objects on other servers.
 Compiled Code
 The first request for an ASP .NET page on the server will compile the
ASP .NET code and keep a cached copy in memory. The result of
this is greatly increased performance.
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 Easy Configuration
 Configuration of ASP .NET is done with plain text files.
 Configuration files can be uploaded or changed while the application
is running. No need to restart the server. No more metabase or
registry puzzle.
 Easy Deployment
 No more server restart to deploy or replace compiled code. ASP
.NET simply redirects all new requests to the new code.
 Compatibility
 ASP .NET is not fully compatible with earlier versions of ASP, so
most of the old ASP code will need some changes to run under
ASP .NET.
 To overcome this problem, ASP .NET uses a new file extension
".aspx". This will make ASP .NET applications able to run side by side
with standard ASP applications on the same server.
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 Classic Page
 Hello W3Schools in ASP.NET
 The simplest way to convert an HTML page into an
ASP.NET page is to copy the HTML file to a new file with
an .aspx extension.
 This code displays our example as an ASP.NET page:
If you want to try it yourself, save the code in a file called
"firstpage.aspx
<html>
<body bgcolor="yellow">
<center><h2>Hello Informatics!</h2></center>
</body>
</html>
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 Dynamic Page
 The code inside the <% --%> tags is executed on the server.
 Response.Write is ASP code for writing something to the HTML
output stream.
 Now() is a function returning the servers current date and time.
 If you want to try it yourself, save the code in a file called
"dynpage.asp"

<html>
<body bgcolor="yellow">
<center><h2>Hello Informatics!</h2>
<p><%Response.Write(now())%></p></center>
</body>
</html>
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 Other Technique
 HTML
<html>
<body>
Date time is <% =DateTime.Now( ) %>
</body>
</html>

 VB.NET
Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object,ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'Put user code to initialize the page here
Label1.Text = "The date and time is " & _
DateTime.Now.ToString( )
End Sub