Table of Contents

1  Windows Server 2003 overview   1

1.1 The whole .NET enchilada 1

Smart clients 2

Servers 3

Developer tools 4

1.2 Windows Server 2003 6

Assigning server roles 6

1.3 This book?s direction 8

1.4 The Windows Server 2003 family tree 10

Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition 10

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 10

Windows Server 2003 Web Edition 10

Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition 11

1.5 Summary 11

2  The .NET Framework, version 1.1   12

2.1 Requirements 12

Operating system 12

Software 13

Hardware 14

2.2 New features of version 1.1 15

The .NET Compact Framework 15

Effectively utilizing ADO.NET 19

ASP.NET mobile controls 26

Side-by-side execution with the .NET Framework 1.0 30

Framework security 31

2.3 Summary 33

3  ASP.NET best practices   34

3.1 ASP.NET?A simple example 34

3.2 Language best practices 41

Coding styles 41

Binding 42

3.3 Server controls 45

ViewState 45

Validation 46

3.4 Error handling 47

Using no error handler 47

Using try/catch blocks 50

Redirecting web.config errors 53

Using the error event of the application object 54

Best practice 54

3.5 State management 54

3.6 ASP.NET caching 56

Page output caching 56

Fragment caching 57

Using the built-in cache API 59

3.7 The ASP.NET sample application 61

Application files 61

3.8 Summary 66

4  Internet Information Services 6   68

4.1 Installing IIS 6 68

4.2 The IIS architecture 73

IIS services 73

The XML metabase 74

IIS 6 Isolation Modes 75

4.3 Configuring an ASP.NET application 78

Allowing dynamic content 78

Configuring an application pool 79

Configuring an IIS 6 web site 83

4.4 IIS authentication 89

4.5 Summary 94

5  The Component Services 1.5 architecture 95

5.1 Overview of Component Services 95

In the beginning ? there was COM 95

Moving to MTS 98

On to COM+ 98

5.2 The COM+ component architecture 99

COM+ applications 102

Your objects? context 103

5.3 Creating a COM+ component 104

Designing the COM+ component 104

Creating the component 106

Installing the component 115

5.4 Summary 118

6  Using COM+ Services 1.5   119

6.1 My Computer properties 119

6.2 Application properties 127

6.3 Component properties 135

6.4 COM+ services new to Windows Server 2003 140

Application pooling 140

Application recycling 140

Configuring applications as NT services 142

Low-Memory Activation Gates 143

Object constructor strings 145

COM+ partitions 146

Private components 150

The COM+ SOAP service 152

Copying and moving COM+ components 158

Pausing and disabling applications 158

Process dumping 159

6.5 Summary 161

7  Using XML and web services   162

7.1 Web services overview 162

XML 162

SOAP 171

WSDL 174

7.2 Building a web service 177

7.3 Accessing a web service 181

7.4 Summary 191

8  Utilizing Microsoft UDDI Services in your enterprise   192

8.1 Installing UDDI Services 193

8.2 The UDDI Services Console 197

Site properties 197

Server properties 201

8.3 Configuring and using UDDI Services 204

A UDDI Services example 205

8.4 Summary 214

9  Windows Server 2003 application security   215

9.1 Platform security 215

Application architecture 216

IIS authentication and authorization 216

Certificates 219

ASP.NET authentication and authorization 227

Enterprise Services authentication and authorization 229

SQL Server 2000 authentication and authorization 229

9.2 ASP.NET security 230

Windows authentication 230

Forms authentication 230

Passport authentication 248

The None authentication option 250

URL authorization 250

Impersonation 251

9.3 Securing web services 251

Configuring authentication 251

Limit your protocols 252

Secure web service connections 253

9.4 Enterprise Services security 254

Declarative security 254

Programmatic security 258

9.5 SQL Server 2000 security 260

SQL Server 2000 SSL 262

9.6 Security policies 264

9.7 Summary 269

10  Deploying .NET applications   270

Deployment strategies 270

Your assembly?s ?manifest-o? 271

XCOPY deployment 272

Windows Installer 274

10.2 Using Visual Studio .NET for deployment 274

The Setup Wizard 275

Setup editors 277

Configuring your setup project?s properties 282

Generating your MSI file 284

10.3 Creating a deployment plan 285

10.4 Summary 285

A  The data model   286

index 293