Beginning ASP.NET for Visual Studio 2015

The complete guide to the productivity and performance enhancements in ASP.NET 

Beginning ASP.NET for Visual Studio 2015 is your ultimate guide to the latest upgrade of this historically popular framework. Fully updated to align with the vNext release, this new edition walks you through the new tools and features that make your workflow smoother and your applications stronger. You’ll get up to speed on the productivity and performance improvements, and learn how Microsoft has committed itself to more continuous innovation by increasing its release cadence for all products and services going forward. Coverage includes Async-aware debugging, ADO.NET idle connection resiliency, managed return value inspection, ASP.NET app suspension, on-demand large object heap compaction, multi-core JIT and more.

The news of an off-cycle update to ASP.NET came as a surprise, but its announcement garnered cheers at the 2014 Microsoft BUILD conference. This guide shows you what all the fuss is about, and how Microsoft overhauled the latest ASP.NET release.

• Get acquainted with the new developer productivity features
• Master the new tools that build better applications
• Discover what’s new in Windows Store app development
• Learn how Microsoft fixed the issues that kept you from v5

Over 38 million websites are currently using ASP.NET, and the new upgrade is already leading to increased adoption. Programmers need to master v6 to remain relevant as web development moves forward. Beginning ASP.NET for Visual Studio 2015 walks you through the details, and shows you what you need to know so you can get up and running quickly.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Started with ASP.NET 6.0
Chapter 2: Building an Initial ASP.NET Application
Chapter 3: Designing Your Web Pages
Chapter 4: Programming in C# and VB.NET
Chapter 5: ASP.NET Web Form Server Controls
Chapter 6: ASP.NET MVC Helpers and Extensions
Chapter 7: Creating Consistent-Looking Websites
Chapter 8: Navigation
Chapter 9: Displaying and Updating Data
Chapter 10: Working with Data—Advanced Topics
Chapter 11: User Controls and Partial Views
Chapter 12: Validating User Input
Chapter 13: ASP.NET AJAX
Chapter 14: jQuery
Chapter 15: Security in Your ASP.NET Website
Chapter 16: Personalizing Websites
Chapter 17: Exception Handling, Debugging, and Tracing
Chapter 18: Working with Source Control
Chapter 19: Deploying Your Website