Alex Homer

ASP.NET 2.0 contains a raft of new features that reduce the code you need to write and save you time and effort when building dynamic and interactive Web pages and applications. To illustrate this, and so that you get a better feel for the way all these features combine to provide the overall ASP.NET 2.0 development experience, this excerpt presents a scenario-based demonstration focused on a day in the life of a developer who is in the process of fulfilling the requirements of a fictional customer. Although this may seem a contrived approach, it actually follows the general process of evolving your applications to meet the needs of the users. More than that, it shows you how all the various features in ASP.NET 2.0 fit together and interact to give you improved producti... (more)