1. Chapter 1 Getting Started

   1. Hello World

   2. Creating a New Web Site

   3. Creating HelloWorld

   4. Making the HelloWorld Web Site Interactive

   5. What You Just Did

   6. Summary

   7. BRAIN BUILDER

2. Chapter 2 Building Web Applications

   1. Mastering Web Site Fundamentals

   2. Controls

   3. Source Code

   4. Summary

   5. BRAIN BUILDER

3. Chapter 3 Snappier Web Sites with AJAX

   1. Take a Walk on the Client Side

   2. ScriptManager

   3. Extending Controls with the Control Toolkit

   4. Source Code Listing

   5. Summary

   6. BRAIN BUILDER

4. Chapter 4 Saving and Retrieving Data

   1. Getting Data from a Database

   2. Displaying and Updating the Data

   3. Source Code Listings

   4. Summary

   5. BRAIN BUILDER

5. Chapter 5 Validation

   1. Validation Controls

   2. The RequiredFieldValidator

   3. The Summary Control

   4. The Compare Validator

   5. Range Checking

   6. Regular Expressions

   7. Custom Validation

   8. Summary

   9. BRAIN BUILDER

6. Chapter 6 Style Sheets, Master Pages, and Navigation

   1. Styles and Style Sheets

   2. Master Pages

   3. Navigation

   4. Summary

   5. BRAIN BUILDER

7. Chapter 7 State and Life Cycle

   1. Page Life Cycle

   2. State

   3. Summary

   4. BRAIN BUILDER

8. Chapter 8 Errors, Exceptions, and Bugs, Oh My!

   1. Creating the Sample Application

   2. Tracing

   3. Debugging

   4. Error Handling

   5. Summary

   6. BRAIN BUILDER

9. Chapter 9 Security and Personalization

   1. Forms-Based Security

   2. Personalization

   3. Themes and Skins

   4. Summary

   5. BRAIN BUILDER

10. Chapter 10 Putting It All Together

    1. Getting Started

    2. Adding Styles

    3. Using Master Pages

    4. Setting Up Roles and Users

    5. Logging In

    6. Navigation

    7. Products Page

    8. Adding AJAX

    9. Cart Page

    10. Purchase Page

    11. Confirm Page

    12. Custom Error Pages

    13. Summary

    14. Source Code Listings

1. Appendix Installing the Applications

   1. What Hardware and Software You'll Need

   2. Visual Web Developer (VWD)

   3. Visual Studio 2005

   4. ASP.NET AJAX

2. Appendix Copying a Web Site

   1. Virtual Directories

   2. Copying the Web Site Without Using the IDE

   3. Copying the Web Site with the IDE

3. Appendix Answers to Quizzes and Exercises

   1. : Getting Started

   2. : Building Web Applications

   3. : Snappier Web Sites with AJAX

   4. : Saving and Retrieving Data

   5. : Validation

   6. : Style Sheets, Master Pages, and Navigation

   7. : State and Life Cycle

   8. : Errors, Exceptions, and Bugs, Oh My!

   9. : Security and Personalization

4. Colophon

The animal on the cover of Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX is a pelagic stingray (Pteroplaytrygon violacea). The pelagic stingary is found worldwide in temperate to tropical seas, in both open bays and deep ocean waters. While many other varieties of rays live near the sandy ocean floor, the pelagic stingray primarily swims in open water. It has many small sharp teeth and is sometimes seen feeding upside-down or using its pectoral fins to push food into its mouth. It eats crustaceans, jellyfish, octopus, squid, and small fish such as mackerel and herring.

Pelagic stingrays can grow up to five feet long and almost three feet wide. This is small relative to other rays, which can be as long as 14 feet, yet is substantial enough that its only predators are large marine creature, such as hammerhead and oceanic whitetip sharks. Its coloring, dark purple or gray on top with a paler underside, serves to camouflage the stingray from predators above. The pelagic stingray wards off these predators with serrated, venomous spines, which protrude about one-third of the way down its tail.

Pups, or baby stingrays, are born in small litters after a two- to four-month gestational period. At birth, they are between 6 and 10 inches long, and they are able to feed and take care of themselves. Though pelagic stingrays are often caught unintentionally in fishing nets, they are not currently endangered, and some scientists have noted a recent increase in pelagic stingray populations.

The cover image is from Dover's Animals. The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed.