Personalizing content for individual users and persisting per-user data has always been a non-trivial undertaking in Web apps, in part due to the stateless nature of HTTP. Sites that authenticate users often store personalization data in back-end databases and key it with user names. Sites that don't authenticate users use cookies to round-trip personalization info or keys that can be used to look up personalization info. Either way, most platforms leave the coding to you. ASP.NET 2.0's profile service simplifies the task of storing per-user data. It works with authenticated and unauthenticated users, and it uses the ASP.NET provider model for flexible data storage. You define a user profile; ASP.NET compiles the profile and provides strongly typed access to it. Moreover, ASP.NET persists data written to profiles.

While this isn't an introductory session and will assume some basic familiarity of ASP.NET 2.0 it does provide a nice tour of a wide set of ASP.NET capabilities. We'll look at Cross Page Posts, Site Navigation, Wizard Control, Url rewriting, as well as learn how to build a web based RSS reader with 'zero' code! Plus: CodeSmith 3.0 Tips & Tricks! We'll explore also some of great tips and tricks that show off some of the awesome capabilities of this tool. Source code included.

This video illustrates how simple it is to create data-driven web sites using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition, ASP.NET 2.0, and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. See the integrated data editing support provided by Visual Web Developer that simplifies database creation and population using the Database Explorer and DataSet Designer. Explore how easy it is to create a master-details view with support for filtering, sorting, paging, and editing with no code using the DropDownList, GridView, DetailsView, and ObjectDataSource controls.

This video is a tour of the web site localization support in Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. Learn how to create culture-aware and locale-specific web content with ASP.NET 2.0 with no additional code. Topics include the new declarative binding syntax, page-level vs. application-level resources, and using the rich resource editor.

This Tips & Tricks video covers many useful techniques for enhancing ASP.NET 2.0 web sites using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. Topics include encrypting sensitive information stored in web.config, maintaining the browser scroll position across postbacks, posting content to a different page, setting focus on a specific control when a page is loaded, creating a bulleted list of hyperlinks from an XML file, working with the file upload control, simplifying complex URLs using URL remapping, and using the MultiView control to switch between groups of content programmatically.

This video shows how to use the new Web Parts and Personalization features of ASP.NET 2.0 and the designer support provided by Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition to build customizable web pages whose content and layout can be modified by the user. See how Web Parts enable the user to add new content to a page on-the-fly and restructure the page in the browser using drag-and-drop.

From this session, brought to you by Microsoft and DevelopMentor, you will learn the internal details of how ASP .NET works, from the new compiled processing model to the inheritance story of a page and code-behind. Also, learn about the strengths of Web Forms and a completly new Server-Side controls architecture. You will also learn how to scale a Web site by taking advantage of the new state management features in ASP .NET. Finally, you will learn about Web Services - how they work and where they fit in the world of distributed computing. Source code included.

In this paper, you learn how to configure your Web solutions using ASP.NET's standardized configuration files. You also learn how to design deployment plans that make it easy for you to install your ASP.NET solutions both locally and remotely.

This paper will provide a broad introduction to the topic of data-driven web sites, and how they are implemented in ASP.NET. It starts with a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of data-driven sites, and then moves on to examine the sources that such data can come from. After that, you will know the .NET Framework's data access strategy of choice, ADO.NET, including its architecture, its classes, and how it fits into the structure of data-driven applications.

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