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Addresses securing and personalizing your site

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Investigates exception handling, debugging, and tracing pages

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built with Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET 4. He is the author or coauthor of
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Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii
Chapter 1

Getting Started with ASP.NET 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter 2

Building an ASP.NET Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Chapter 3

Designing Your Web Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

ChaPter 4

Working with ASP.NET Server Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Chapter 5

Programming Your ASP.NET Web Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Chapter 6

Creating Consistent Looking Web Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Chapter 7

Navigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

ChaPter 8

User Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

ChaPter 9

Validating User Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Chapter 10 ASP.NET AJAX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
ChaPter 11

jQuery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Chapter 12

Introducing Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Chapter 13

Displaying and Updating Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Chapter 14

LINQ and the ADO.NET Entity Framework. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

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Working with Data — Advanced Topics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

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Security in Your ASP.NET 4 Web Site. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

Chapter 17

Personalizing Web Sites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619

Chapter 18

Exception Handling, Debugging, and Tracing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

Chapter 19

Deploying Your Web Site. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697

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Appendix A Exercise Answers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731
Appendix B Configuring SQL Server 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

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