Introducing Microsoft® Asp .net 2.0

Get an expert, developer-focused introduction to the next big innovation in ASP .NET Web programming. Programming authority Dino Esposito takes your Inside ASP.NET 2.0 technology, explaining how its updated, more powerful infrastructure allows you to create rich and dynamic Web applications quickly and with less code. Esposito examines how developer best practices with ASP.NET 1.x and classic ASP helped drive the architectural changes in ASP.NET 2.0, and he offers prerelease insights into its final architecture. With concise concept and feature explanations and more than 70 fully functional examples, this comprehensive introduction gives you everything you need to dig into ASP .NET 2.0 right now.

Discover how to:

• Simplify Web Page layout with new core controls and Master Page functionality.
• Built modular, customizable Web sites and portals with Web Parts and the Personalization API
  
• Exploit new data access functionality with Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0.
• Employ declarative and virtually codeless data binding
• Write more advanced functions with less code by using improved application application services
• Quickly program the Forms Authentication engine with the new membership and role management APIs
• Exploit tighter integration with the Microsoft .NET Framework by using the new compilation and HTTP runtime hosting models
• Tune up applications using a new suite of classes in the configuration API
• Apply ready-to-use system tools to increase efficiency of ASP.NE 2.0 monitoring