The book explains how to build a 3-layered application from the ground up and also includes features in many business applications. An ASP.NET application is built for a fictitious company's HR department to track vacation requests. Some of the features included in the application are
- Role based security
- Crystal Reports for .NET
- Creating dashboards with the Web Part controls.
- Displaying data with the GridView control and creating custom server controls
- Using the calendar control
- A custom control that allows the user to build their own queries to filter reports
- A workflow engine
- Auditing
- Exception handling with the Exception Management Block
- The Health Monitoring features in .NET
- And much more. There is even a chapter that explains how to build a Windows Service to send emails.
The last chapter even builds a code generator that ingrates into the "Add New Item" dialog in Visual Studio.
This book is packed with plenty of sample code that you can use in your own applications and uses some of the newer features in Visual Studio and the .NET Framework 3.5 such as LINQ to SQL, extension methods, partial methods, LINQ to object, and much more.
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