Pro ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming [electronic resource] / by Damon Armstrong.

Configuration Strategy -- Exception Management -- Master Pages, Themes, and Control Skins -- Developing Reusable Components: The Skinned Page-Message Control -- User Management Tools and Login Controls for Forms Authentication -- Managing Profiles -- Building Portals Using the Web Parts Framework -- Effective Search Tools and Techniques for Your Business Applications -- Building a Reusable Reporting Framework -- Web-Based Wizards: Avoiding Duplicate Data Entry -- Uploading Files -- Security and Encryption -- Using HTTP Handlers: Request Processing, Image Generation, and Content Management.

Pro ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming shows you how to harness the ASP.NET technology to build websites that tackle real business needs. It provides ideas and practices that help reduce maintenance costs, decrease development time, and manage user perception. It discusses not only the technical implementation but the business reasoning behind the ideasusing real business situations, drawn directly from the author's extensive consulting experience. Business application development projects routinely begin with limited resources, tight budgets, and constrained timelines. Many developers respond to this by starting their coding immediately, with the hope of maximizing their time. But it's already been proven that the best way to finish projects on time and under budget is to invest some time up front to make the development project operate more smoothly and efficiently in the long run. With this book, you'll be able to exploit ASP.NET 2.0 to its full potential, and provide your users and customers with websites that are intuitive, secure, and high performing.