This tutorial will show you how to set up a website using Visual Web Developer (VWD) and create a Master Page for all the pages in the site. Fortunately VWD comes with it's own inbuilt web development server so you don't need Internet Information Services (IIS) to run your website application locally.
Forms authentication has been made easier with a supply of readymade tools for repetitive tasks. ASP.NET 2.0 encapsulates all the best practices and provides built in solutions to virtually all the tasks relating to user databases, roles cached in cookies, controls for capturing user name and passwords, and administration tools for managing users and roles. Additionally ASP.NET 2.0 supports cookie-less semantics
The most important thing to store in the web.config file is the database connection string. The reason of storing connection string in the web.config file makes sense since if later we ever want to change the location of our database we just have to change the connection string in the web.config file and thats it. This will certainly save us a lot of alteration in different files where we used the old connection.
ASP.NET 2 has got several new foucs on development. Probably gridView will be your best friend of you. The GridView control automates many of the features of the DataGrid control. You have a full control on viewing, sorting, paging and editing. This sample is only a beginner guide but I hope that you will discover many features of gridView.
ASP.NET 2.0 has a built in site navigation feature which provides a consistent way for the user to navigate your website. The new site navigation system allows defining all the links at a central location file usually an XML file and display those links in lists or navigation menus in each required page using navigation-based server controls.
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