Chapter 1: What Does Web Programming Mean, Anyway?
Figure 1-1: A Web server fulfills a request for a static HTML Web page.
Figure 1-2: A Web server fulfills a request for a dynamic Web page.
Figure 1-3: ASP.NET handles requests for .aspx files.
Figure 1-4: Server-based programming versus browser-based programming
Chapter 2: Overview of Web Matrix, ASP.NET, and Visual Basic .NET
Figure 2-1: ASP.NET is the part of the .NET Framework that s designed for creating and running Web pages.
Figure 2-2: Web Matrix provides a WYSIWYG environment for programming Web pages with ASP.NET.
Chapter 4: Getting to Know Web Matrix
Figure 4-1: The Add New File dialog box, displayed when Web Matrix first starts.
Figure 4-2: The Web Matrix work area.
Figure 4-3: The Web Matrix Community window
Figure 4-4: Your page in HTML view.
Figure 4-5: The page in Design view with the grid enabled.
Chapter 5: Creating a Simple Slideshow
Figure 5-1: The slideshow page when it s running.
Figure 5-2: A navigation bar added to the slideshow page.
Figure 5-3: The slideshow with captions.
Chapter 6: Maintaining User Preferences
Figure 6-1: The preferences page in action.
Chapter 7: Creating a Random Quotes Page
Figure 7-1: A random quotes page.
Chapter 8: Creating a Page Hit Counter
Figure 8-1: A hit counter showing how many times a page has been visited.
Figure 8-2: Displaying the counter as plain text.
Figure 8-3: Displaying the counter using a distinctive font and color.
Figure 8-4: A hit counter displayed using graphical numbers.
Chapter 9: Show Me the Data!
Figure 9-1: A connection object provides a link to a database.
Figure 9-2: A command object contains a SQL statement that you execute to communicate with the database. Some SQL statements return data in a result set.
Figure 9-3: If a command object returns a result set, you can read the rows using a data reader object.
Figure 9-4: The data-display page when it s running in the browser.
Chapter 10: Creating a Guestbook
Figure 10-1: A guestbook entry page.
Figure 10-2: Viewing guestbook entries.
Figure 10-3: The guestbook page in Design view.
Figure 10-4: A page displaying error messages due to invalid user input.
Chapter 11: Creating a More Flexible Guestbook Listing
Figure 11-1: Guestbook item layout defined using a template.
Figure 11-2: The DataList control reads data and uses the templates to create output.
Figure 11-3: The guestbook displayed using a DataList control.
Figure 11-4: Guestbook data displayed in a bulleted list created by the Repeater control.
Chapter 12: Creating a Database-Driven Slideshow
Figure 12-1: A slideshow picker page that allows users to select a slideshow to view.
Figure 12-2: The two-table database structure for slideshows.
Figure 12-3: Sample data for the Slideshows table.
Figure 12-4: A dataset holds a copy of database data in memory in a list-like structure.
Figure 12-5: The slideshow viewer page, which includes a title, a date, and a link to the slideshow picker page.
Figure 12-6: The slideshow viewer page in Design view after you ve added new controls.
Chapter 13: Updating Master-Details Tables
Figure 13-1: A page that allows you to enter slideshow master information as well as jump to a details page.
Figure 13-2: The details page, with several slides already entered.
Figure 13-3: Adding a new slide and displaying it in the grid.
Figure 13-4: The MxDataGridField collection editor when you ve finished creating a Delete button.
Chapter 14: Creating a Web-Based Calendar
Figure 14-1: A page for entering appointments, featuring a Calendar control.
Figure 14-2: A page that uses the Calendar control to display appointment information.
Figure 14-3: The ViewCalendar page after you ve added the controls to display appointments.
Chapter 15: Sending E-Mail Messages from Your Web Application
Figure 15-1: An SMTP virtual server monitors for e-mail messages and forwards them to the recipient s e-mail server.
Figure 15-2: A Web page that allows you to send e-mail messages.
Figure 15-3: An e-mail message alerting you to a new Guestbook entry.
Figure 15-4: A slideshow page with a button that allows users to send the current picture to their friends.
Figure 15-5: The SendPicture.aspx page, where users provide information for sending a picture in e-mail.
Figure 15-6: Entering test information in the SendPictures.aspx page.
Figure 15-7: The picture arrives as an attachment to an e-mail message.
Appendix B: Deploying Web Matrix Applications
Figure B-1: Creating an IIS virtual root using the Start Web Application dialog box.
Figure B-2: Connecting to a hosting site using a popular FTP client program.
Figure B-3: Creating a new FTP workspace in Web Matrix.
Figure B-4: Connecting to an FTP server in Web Matrix.
Figure B-5: Transferring MSDE data to the hosting site via text files.
