Most Web applications follow a simple "3F" pattern: fetch, format, and forward data to the browser. With this in-depth guide, developers can take their Web design and programming skills to the next level to build more complex Web pages, applications, and services. The book demonstrates the advanced data-access capabilities of ADO.NET and the powerful page-creation capabilities of ASP.NET, plus how to employ code reusability, pagelets, code-behind, server-side controls, and other time-saving techniques. It's the developer's guide to building advanced, Microsoft .NET-enabled, Web-based solutions and services using ADO.NET and ASP.NET.This book pulls together the key pieces from ADO.Net and ASP.Net to show how to build practical yet powerful .NET-based Web applications. Key Book Benefits:

• Demonstrates how to build more interesting, more complex Web pages, applications, and services by using the advanced features of ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and XML
• Shows advanced capabilities of ADO.NET to retrieve, manipulate, sort, and edit data, plus how to use data-bound controls, templates, and data grids to sort and present data
• Reveals time-savers such as code reusability, pagelets, code-behind, and server-side controls, how to build a front-end driver to group and display data, and how to create a Web service

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction

Pt. I Data Access and Reporting

• 1 Data Bound .NET Controls 3
• 2 Pageable Data Grids 29
• 3 Templated DataGrid Controls 75
• 4 Editing DataGrid Controls 105

Pt. II Smart and Effective Data Access and Reporting

• 5 Code Reusability in ASP.NET 139
• 6 Advanced Data Reporting 175
• 7 Disconnected Web Applications 211

Pt. III Interoperability

• 8 Interoperable Web Applications 255
• 9 Web Services 285
• 10 Exposing Data to .NET Applications 317
• Afterword: Some Final Thoughts on the Future of ADO.NET 355
• Index 359