ASP.NET 3.5 is the latest version of Microsoft’s revolutionary ASP.NET technology. It is the principal standard for creating dynamic web pages on the Windows platform. Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008 raises the bar for high–quality, practical advice on learning and deploying Microsoft’s dynamic web solution.

Microsoft’s .NET framework provides developers with the ability to build and deploy applications and services via the Web. These services can facilitate communication between clients and .NET application servers (such as database servers and so forth) through the use of XML queries issued by the client. This environment is attractive to developers because it is a language-neutral environment that can deliver content to end-users regardless of the platform in use.

One of the most useful features of ASP.NET forms-based authentication is the ability to use roles when designing a security infrastructure. When used naively, however, it can be very inefficient.

This article presents the fundamentals of building role-based security systems in ASP.NET as well as techniques for improving the efficiency of role membership lookup.

Sample code for this article is available for download at

This book is meant to show all ASP programmers, new and old, just how powerful ASP.NET now is. Unlike ASP 1.x through 3.x, which worked in Windows 95 through the Personal Web Server tool, you will need at least Windows 2000, all the latest service packs, Internet Explorer 6, IIS 5.x (up to date), and the .NET SDK installed.

As of this writing, the latest version of .NET is Beta 2, which covers the framework,ASP, and its programming languages. Remember, this book is meant to be an introduction to ASP.NET, not VB.NET or C#.

This
is the user manual for the Digimaker developers. It covers all aspects
of how to develop solutions with Digimaker technology; from page
requirements, handlers, config files, resource files, roles to helper
classes.

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Almost every web application has to deal with data, whether it’s stored in a database, an XML file,a structured file, or something else. Retrieving this data is only part of the challenge—a modern application also needs a convenient, flexible, and attractive way to display the data in a web page.

‘Learn how to build impressive ASP.NET Websites in both C# and VB.NET from scratch using freely available software ’

ASP.NET is one of the most widely adopted Web application platforms available today. As a Web developer it's therefore becoming increasingly important to expand your skills and learn the ins-and-outs of a technology that’s now used by major organizations such as Accenture, Compaq, AIG, Bank of Nova Scotia, Adobe, Dell, Ford and many others.

gives you the background you need to start writing ASP.NET 2.0 web applications of your own. So you'll find out how web applications work, what software you need to develop them, and how the HTML code for a web form is coordinated with the Visual Basic code that makes the web form work the way you want it to.