4439Beginning ASP.NET using VB.NEThttp://www.devasp.net/Net/SampleChapters/5040/default.aspASP.NET is a new and powerful technology for writing dynamic web pages. It's a convergence of two major Microsoft technologie's, Active Server Pages (ASP) and .NET. ASP is a relative old-timer on the web computing circuit and has provided a sturdy, fast, and effective way of creative dynamic web pages for more than five years now. .NET is the new kid on the block and is a whole suite of technologies designed by Microsoft with the aim of revolutionizing the way in which all programming development is conducted in the future and the way companies carry out business. Therefore, as a conjunction of the two, ASP.NET is a way of creating dynamic web pages while making use of the innovations present in .NET.ASP.NET > Tips and TutorialsOct 10, 2006
DataSource controls enable programmers to declaratively connect data sources to the user interface. The logic for retrieving the data from the source is inbuilt into the control. For instance when a DropDownList is added to the form the developer is prompted to connect to the DataSource. On Clicking ?connect to DataSource?, the wizard is started to guide the user through the process of setting up the data source
This article discuss about the Web Parts, new feature introduced in ASP.NET 2.0. You can see many websites that are modular in nature today. Many websites often organize their content into modules that allows for personalization. Information is broken down into manageable parts which end users can rearrange or move around the parts to suit their preferences. User has also the flexibility to save his preferences for future browser sessions. This way, end user can be empowered to personalize site dynamically.
Web portals have been around for sometime now. They act as repositories of information and provide customized content for different categories of users. If the portals provide free access to all users, the design would not be too complicated. A database at the back end would not be a requirement. If access rights have to be limited across categories of users the design tends to be more complicated. Authentication and authorization protocols will have to be established by setting up a database at the backend.
ASP.NET 2.0 makes the task of website design very easy by providing a number of tools for authentication, authorization, pre-user customization, common layout and dynamic menus based on a XML sitemap file. Very little programming skills are required for harnessing these tools to the task at hand. As an added bonus, ASP.NET 2.0 has a built in AspNetAccessProvider that stores details about users of the application which works well with both forms based authentication and Windows based authentication.
However, if you feel that you need to hardcode your access rights and roles ASP.NET 2.0 provides a number of new classes that can be used with ease by the inveterate programmer.
ASP.NET 2.0 Free Training : Changing Master Pages Dynamically - In this tutorial you will learn how to make a copy of the master page, To add buttons for selecting an alternate master page, To write code to dynamically select the master page and test the dynamic master pages.
Someone wanted the exact same thing on codeproject.com a while ago but I didn't give much thought to it, until someone at work asked me how to do it - since he wasn't able to find a viable solution on the internet.
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