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| Microsoft looked at the bottle neck that developers were experiencing with ASP.NET 1.1 and have developed ASP.NET 2.0 to include server side controls that encapsulate the most common features, design patterns and code the developers were continually developing. These common features, patterns and code now come as built in built-in functionality of ASP.NET 2.0. You now have support for user name password and role management. The concept of master pages and UI inheritance enable you to build a consistent look and feel to your site with minimum effort. With ASP.NET you have nearly 50 new server side controls that are ready to drop straight on to your web pages. To find out more about the new controls available when you use ASP.NET hosting take a look at our control list. |
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Have you spent hours using asp.net user web controls in order to reuse layout code across you site in order to get a consistent look and feel to your site and reuse your hard developed code. Well you will be glad to here that this task has been made a whole lot easier. The Master Pages feature provided by ASP.NET 2.0 and our hosting packages make provide the ability to define common structure and interface elements for your site, such as a page header, footer, or navigation bar, in a common location called a "master page", to be shared by many pages in your site. This improves the maintainability of your site and avoids unnecessary duplication of code for shared site structure or behavior.
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Master Pages in ASP.NET
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A common problem that you always come across when developing ASP.NET hosting solutions in structured directory architecture is that relative paths to web site images, web stylesheets. This is also a problem when your master .NET page is in a different directory to you content page. To over come this problem you should use
• Use absolute URL paths in the Master Page, for example
• Use relative or application-relative URLs in server controls instead of static markup.
As well as overriding the contents of the master page in your derived content page you can access the master page programmatically. This is achieved by creating a strongly – typed reference to the master page , using the @MasterType directive in your aspx html code.
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If like my self you found the DataGrid control in ASP.NET 1.0 very useful but at time a bit tiresome to code then you will love the new DataGrid control that come with version ASPNET 2.0. You can now drop a DataGrid control on to you web page that is filtered by a drop down and supports paging, sorting, and editing while only having to write a single line of procedural code. You also have the ability to bind data access controls to in house business objects giving you the ability to build scalable enterprise solutions in double quick time.
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Grid View Control in ASP.NET 2.0
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The Details View control is a new data bound control that is available with asp.net 2.0. It renders a single record at a time with the navigation buttons that enable you to move between records in the database in on your SQL server and carry out the standard database actions of adding updating and deleting records. This is all available in asp.net 2.0 without writing any code. The Details View controls can be used with the asp.net 2.0 Grid View control to implement the master-details pattern where the Grid View control used to select which record the Details View control displays. The asp.net 2.0 Details view controls is similar in concept to the classic Access database details form control. But again all this is available with out the requirement to write very much code. Using asp.net 2.0 and Microsoft SQL server 2005 you can now build your web site in double quick time with out having to write very much code, and hence having less of a maintenance overhead once you web site has been designed and deployed in to its asp.net hosting environment.
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Details View Control in ASP.NET 2.0
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