Ideal reference/tutorial for building on ASP fundamentals to develop professional-level skills

Build your expertise as you move beyond the basics-and delve into the core topics of programming with ASP.NET 2.0. Useful to both experienced developers and those developing new skills, this ultimate reference is packed with expert guidance, hands-on programming instruction, and practical examples to help you advance your mastery of developing applications for the Web.

Discover how to:

• Author rich, visually consistent pages and manage layout with themes and Master pages
• Create personalized pages that persist user preferences
• Retrieve, modify, and manage data with Microsoft ADO.NET
• Configure the HTTP pipeline to serve ASP.NET 2.0 pages
• Control program flow by tracing and handling exceptions
• Design caching layers and learn state management techniques to optimize application performance
• Manage users with membership control, registration, and authentication capabilities
• Build real-world data access layers using common design patterns
• Use custom collections with data source controls
• Learn the internals of grid controls

PLUS-Get code samples on the Web

• Building an ASP.NET page
  • The ASP.NET programming model
  • Web development in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005
  • Anatomy of an ASP.NET page
  • ASP.NET core server controls
  • Working with the page
  • Rich page composition
• Adding data in an ASP.NET site
  • ADO.NET data providers
  • ADO.NET data containers
  • The data-binding model
  • Creating bindable grids of data
  • Managing views of a record
• ASP.NET infrastructure
  • The HTTP request context
  • State management
  • ASP.NET caching
  • ASP.NET security