Teach yourself the fundamentals of ASP.NET 2.0—one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the guidance you need to start creating components and working applications for the Web!

Discover how to:

• Work in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 development environment
• Add standard, built-in controls, custom controls, and Web Parts to any page
• Use Master pages, themes, and skins to build a consistently styled user interface
• Manage access to your application
• Enable personalization capabilities
• Build custom handlers
• Use caching to help improve application performance
• Trace and debug applications
• Configure and manage session state
• Create and use Web services
• Compile and deploy applications

CD features:

• Microsoft Visual C# code samples

PLUS—Get Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 code samples on the Web

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