Secrets of Real World ASP.Net Dynamic Data Websites

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This Wrox Blox will teach you how to work with the new ASP.NET Dynamic Data feature set. Rather than being a new data access technology or some new approach to querying the database, a Dynamic Data web site helps abstract the user interface controls needed to present the data in your database. You will learn to model the database in LINQ to SQL and apply a variety of metadata attributes to the model. These attributes and their arguments will allow field templates to adapt to the context of the application. Furthermore, this Wrox Blox will teach you how to build specialized user controls called field templates that respond to the metadata information applied to database models. You will see how to push validation rules and custom business logic out of the user interface layer and down to the model layer. Finally, you will learn how to secure scaffolding pages that provide full editing capabilities to your database tables. Table of ContentsExploring a Dynamic Data Web Site 1Prerequisites 2Create the Web Site 2Building Blocks 6Understanding Model Metadata 7Display Name 9Required 9Regular Expression 9String Length 9UI Hint 9Range 9Display Format 10Scaffold Column 10Metadata Type 10Display Column 10Scaffold Table 10Building Custom Field Templates 10Build the URL Field Templates 11Validating against Custom Business Logic 19Validate Unique E-Mail Addresses 20Move the Data Context to a Separate Assembly 22Secure the Scaffolding 25Add ASP.NET Membership Services 25Secure Scaffold Pages 28Wrapping Up 29About the Author 30