Pro ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming

With the release of ASP.NET 2.0 comes an array of new features that can enhance productivity, ease administration, and improve performance. It is undoubtedly an extremely powerful framework for the development of server-side web applications. But to exploit ASP.NET to its full potential requires not just knowledge of what these new features are and what they can do ? it requires an understanding of when and how to apply these features in the business domain.

This book shows you how to harness these new features in building websites that tackle real business problems. It provides insight into techniques and practices that help reduce maintenance costs, decrease development time, and manage user perception. It also discusses the business reasoning behind the techniques, not just the technical implementation.

Each chapter identifies a common business requirement ? such as managing logins, reporting, data searching and security ? and the associated challenges and potential problems. It then goes on to demonstrate an effective ASP.NET 2.0-based solution. The author uses stories from his own experience to really drive home the point that these are real-world problems. Chapters will be presented as independent sections to allow readers to jump back and forth between the specific technologies they find interesting.

Readers with a basic familiarity with ASP.NET, VB.NET, and Visual Studio will learn practical techniques for the implementation of ASP.NET 2.0, and the book also provides an excellent guide for the increasing numbers of developers who are migrating traditional ASP/VB websites to .NET.