ASP.NET 2.0 Beta Preview

What is this book about?ASP.NET 2 Beta Preview is timed to coincide with thefirst widespread beta release of ASP.NET "Whidbey" -- the newversion of Microsoft's popular technology for creatingdynamic Web sites that pull unique information for each visitorrather that showing everyone the same static HTML pages. The bookgets developers up to speed with the new features and capabilitiesthat ASP.NET 2.0 provides. Developers will learn how to buildASP.NET 2.0 applications for themselves from the examples that thebook provides.This book is for ASP.NET developers making the transition tothis new version of the technology. The changes are many, and insome cases, they're quite dramatic. The book spends a good deal oftime alerting you to all that has changed and explaining what youneed to know to make the transition to ASP.NET 2.0.Finally, the book focuses on both the Visual Basic .NET and C#developer. Examples throughout the book do not favor one developerover another. Instead, every example is provided in bothlanguages.

Introduction.Acknowledgments.Chapter 1: Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0.Chapter 2: Visual Studio 2005.Chapter 3: Application and Page Frameworks.Chapter 4: New Ways to Handle Data.Chapter 5: Site Navigation.Chapter 6: Working with Master Pages.Chapter 7: Themes and Skins.Chapter 8: Membership and Role Management.Chapter 9: Personalization.Chapter 10: Portal Frameworks and Web Parts.Chapter 11: SQL Cache Invalidation.Chapter 12: Additional New Controls.Chapter 13: Changes to ASP.NET 1.0 Controls.Chapter 14: Administration and Management.Chapter 15: Visual Basic 8.0 and C# 2.0 LanguageEnhancements.Index.