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What are the new Data Controls in Asp.net 2.0?

Data access in ASP.NET 2.0 can be accomplished completely declaratively (no code) usingthe new data-bound and data source controls. There are new data source controls torepresent different data backends such as SQL database, business objects, and XML, andthere are new data-bound controls for rendering common UI for data, such as gridview,detailsview, and formview.

What are the new Navigation Controls in Asp.net 2.0?

The navigation controls provide common UI for navigating between pages in your site, suchas treeview, menu, and sitemappath. These controls use the site navigation service inASP.NET 2.0 to retrieve the custom structure you have defined for your site.

What are the new Login Controlsin Asp.net 2.0?

The new login controls provide the building blocks to add authentication and authorization-based UI to your site, such as login forms, create user forms, password retrieval, andcustom UI for logged in users or roles. These controls use the built-in membership and roleservices in ASP.NET 2.0 to interact with the user and role information defined for your site.

What are the new Web Part Controls in Asp.net 2.0 ?

Web parts are an exciting new family of controls that enable you to add rich, personalizedcontent and layout to your site, as well as the ability to edit that content and layout directlyfrom your application pages. These controls rely on the personalization services in ASP.NET2.0 to provide a unique experience for each user in your application.

What are Master Pages?

This feature provides the ability to define common structure and interface elements for yoursite, such as a page header, footer, or navigation bar, in a common location called a "masterpage", to be shared by many pages in your site. In one simple place you can control thelook, feel, and much of functionality for an entire Web site. This improves themaintainability of your site and avoids unnecessary duplication of code for shared sitestructure or behavior.

What are Themes and Skins in 2.0, explain usgae scenario?

The themes and skins features in ASP.NET 2.0 allow for easy customization of your site'slook-and-feel. You can define style information in a common location called a "theme", andapply that style information globally to pages or controls in your site. Like Master Pages,this improves the maintainability of your site and avoid unnecessary duplication of code forshared styles.

What is a profile object, why is it used?

Using the new personalization services in ASP.NET 2.0 you can easily create customizedexperiences within Web applications. The Profile object enables developers to easily buildstrongly-typed, sticky data stores for user accounts and build highly customized,relationship based experiences. At the same time, a developer can leverage Web Parts andthe personalization service to enable Web site visitors to completely control the layout andbehavior of the site, with the knowledge that the site is completely customized for them.Personalizaton scenarios are now easier to build than ever before and require significantlyless code and effort to implement.

What is Configuration API?

ASP.NET 2.0 contains new configuration management APIs, enabling users toprogrammatically build programs or scripts that create, read, and update Web.config andmachine.config configuration files.

What is MMC Admin Tool?

ASP.NET 2.0 provides a new comprehensive admin tool that plugs into the existing IISAdministration MMC, enabling an administrator to graphically read or change commonsettings within our XML configuration files.

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Explain the use of Pre-compilation Tool?

ASP.NET 2.0 delivers a new application deployment utility that enables both developers andadministrators to precompile a dynamic ASP.NET application prior to deployment. Thisprecompilation automatically identifies any compilation issues anywhere within the site, aswell as enables ASP.NET applications to be deployed without any source being stored on theserver (one can optionally remove the content of .aspx files as part of the compile phase),further protecting your intellectual property.

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How is application management and maintenance improved in Asp.net 2.0?

ASP.NET 2.0 also provides new health-monitoring support to enable administrators to beautomatically notified when an application on a server starts to experience problems. Newtracing features will enable administrators to capture run-time and request data from aproduction server to better diagnose issues. ASP.NET 2.0 is delivering features that willenable developers and administrators to simplify the day-to-day management andmaintenance of their Web applications.

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What are Provider-driven Application Services? explain in detail?

ASP.NET 2.0 now includes built-in support for membership (user name/password credentialstorage) and role management services out of the box. The new personalization serviceenables quick storage/retrieval of user settings and preferences, facilitating richcustomization with minimal code. The new site navigation system enables developers toquickly build link structures consistently across a site. As all of these services are provider-driven, they can be easily swapped out and replaced with your own custom implementation.With this extensibility option, you have complete control over the data store and schemathat drives these rich application services.

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Explain Server Control Extensibility with reference to Asp.net 2.0 ?

ASP.NET 2.0 includes improved support for control extensibility, such as more base classesthat encapsulate common behaviors, improved designer support, more APIs for interactingwith client-side script, metadata-driven support for new features like themes andaccessibility verification, better state management, and more.

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What are the Data Source Controls?

Data access in ASP.NET 2.0 is now performed declaratively using data source controls on apage. In this model, support for new data backend storage providers can be easily addedby implementing custom data source controls. Additionally, the SqlDataSource control thatships in the box has built-in support for any ADO.NET managed provider that implementsthe new provider factory model in ADO.NET.

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What are Compilation Build Providers?

Dynamic compilation in ASP.NET 2.0 is now handled by extensible compilation buildproviders, which associate a particular file extension with a handler that knows how tocompile that extension dynamically at runtime. For example, .resx files can be dynamicallycompiled to resources, .wsdl files to web service proxies, and .xsd files to typed DataSetobjects. In addition to the built-in support, it is easy to add support for additionalextensions by implementing a custom build provider and registering it in Web.config.