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Overview MyPage.aspx
Http Page
Handler
(.aspx)
HtmlForm
Http Application
TextBox Button
Http Module (Authorization)
Http Module (Authentication)
Http Module (OutputCache)

ASP.NET Runtime (ISAPI)

IIS (Web Server)

Internet
ASP.NET Application
 Resides in a folder on a web server (IIS)
 The web site is configured for ASP.NET, meaning it
is set to handle .aspx page requests by sending them
to the ASP.NET Runtime
 web.config application configuration file
 Aspx files
 .dll assembly of compiled codebehind and other
classes
Global Programming (Global.asax)

 Define Application Global methods, constants,

variables
 Global Event Handling
 Application_Start
 Session_Start
 Application_BeginRequest
 Application_AuthenticateRequest
 Useful for setting up custom Page.User and roles
 Application_Error
 Session_End
 Application_End
ASP.NET Application Configuration
 Settings in machine.config
 Settings in web.config
 <customErrors>
 <trace>
 <sessionState>
 <appSettings>
 <add>
 key attribute
 value attribute
 Security Settings
 <authentication>
 <authorization>
 <identity>
ASP.NET Security Configuration

 <authentication>
 Windows
 Forms
 Passport
 <authorization>
 <allow>
 <deny>
 <identity>
 impersonate attribute
 userName and password attributes
 Can be stored encrypted in the registry
ASP.NET Application Security
 Page.User
 Identity
 GenericPrincipal and Roles
 PrincipalPermission and IsInRole
 IIS Configuration
 Interaction with Application Security
 Integrated, Basic, Digest, Kerberos
 Accessing Backend Resources (Architecture)
System.Web.UI.Page
 ASP.NET Web Page Consists of
 An .aspx page
 An optional .NET class file containing code for that page
 Any user controls used by the page
 Think of the page as an object
 Controls are object variables
 Access them in code
 Inline (Inferior)
 Code is interspersed with HTML
 Code Behind (Superior)
 Code resides in a separate class file
The Page Directive
 Defines page-specific (.aspx file) attributes used by the
ASP.NET page parser and compiler.

Example showing an .aspx page mapped to its code behind:

<%@ Page Codebehind="WebForm1.aspx.vb"
inherits="AspNet.WebForm1" %>
Server-Side Events
Client
Server
MyPage.aspx
Private Sub btnGo_Click(…)

End Sub
Search
PostBack
 Event flow in ASP.NET pages
(.aspx)
 Application Level Events (Global.asax)
 Page_Init: page and controls are initialized
 Page_Load: all the controls and page are loaded
 Change events for controls are processed
 Click events for controls are processed
 Page_PreRender: page is about to render
 Page_Unload: page is unloaded from memory
Controls

 WebForm Controls
 HTML Controls
 Web User Controls
 Custom Controls
What’s in the Toolbox?

• WebForm Controls
• TextBox, Label, Hyperlink, Etc
• DropDownList, DataGrid, DataList, Etc
• HTML Controls (Client or Server)
• ADO.NET Design Controls
• System Components
• Validation Controls
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 WebForm Vs HTML Controls
 Both have the following benefits
 An object model that you can program against on the server 1
 A set of events for which you can write sever side event handlers. 1
 The ability to handle events in client script . 1
 Automatic maintenance of the control's state (ViewState). 1
 Interaction with validation controls so you can easily verify that a user has entered appropriate
information into a control. 1
 Data binding to one or more properties of the control. 1
 Support for HTML 4.0 styles if the Web Forms page is displayed in a browser that supports cascading style sheets. 1
 Pass-through of custom attributes. 1
 HTML Controls Advantage
 Object model with a one-to-one mapping to HTML elements 1
 WebForm Controls Advantage
 A richer object model that provides type-safe programming capabilities. 1
 Automatic browser detection. 1
 For some controls, the ability to define your own look for the control using templates. 1
 For some controls, the ability to specify whether a control's event causes immediate posting to the server or is instead
cached and raised when the form is submitted. 1
 Ability to pass events from a nested control (such as a button in a table) to the container control. 1

1 Ref: Introduction to ASP.NET Server Controls

ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/vbcon/html/vbconintroductiontowebformscontrols.htm
2 See Also: ASP.NET Server Controls Recommendations
ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/vbcon/html/vbconchoosingwebformscontrols.htm
Validation Controls

 RequiredFieldValidator
 CompareValidator
 RangeValidator
 RegularExpressionValidator
 CustomValidator
 ValidationSummary

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Validation Controls Common Properties
 ControlToValidate  This property lets the validator
know which control it has to validate. (It binds the validator to
that control and then the validator monitors that control.)

 ErrorMessage  This is the error message that appears in

the validation summary when the control being validated
violates the condition set by the validator.

 Text Information that gives guidance to correct the error.

Page.Validate() and Page.IsValid

 They allow you to trigger validation from different points in

your code
 Validate() must be called before checking IsValid
DataBinding

 Populating Controls with Data

 Single-Value vs. Multi-Record
 Design-time vs. Runtime Binding
How State is Managed in a Stateless
World

 Posted Data Handling

 ViewState
 Webforms automatically handles form data and
persists it across requests
 Hidden field with encoded data
 Session (in memory or a database)
 Cache
OutputCache

 Cache the HTML output of a page

 Increases performance
 Duration
 Location
 VaryByParam
Debugging ASP.NET
 Using Visual Studio .NET debugging tools
 Breakpoints
 Stop keyword
 System.Diagnostics.Debug
 Command/Immediate Windows
 Watch/Quick Watch
 Autos/Locals Windows
 Trace
 Client Script Debugging
 Active Documents
 Debugger keyword
Deployment

 Can be XCopy’d
 Usually only the .aspx pages and the compiled
codebehind assembly