Chapter 10: Componentization

Chapter 10 - Componentization
byJohn Kauffman, Fabio Claudio Ferracchiatiet al.?
Wrox Press ?2002

Overview

Having reached this stage of the book, you've already have made a great deal of progress towards mastering database programming with ASP.NET. In this chapter, we won't be examining any new features of ASP.NET, or of ADO.NET, but we will be practicing some techniques that should help you to improve the applications you write using those technologies. We're going to look at componentization, which will allow you to reuse your code more efficiently, and to improve the scalability and maintainability of your applications. Specifically, we'll cover:

• The benefits of using componentization in .NET

• The creation of a simple, non-database class library, and seeing how it can be used in an ASP.NET web page

• A walkthrough of some ASP.NET web pages that are designed for different uses, where each page uses the same class library

• Some important notes about the componentization of ASP.NET web applications

• The practical implications of componentization

To accomplish all of this, we will be looking at solutions to the kinds of business requests that might be posed to us by Northwind Traders. These requests are similar to those you might encounter in your real-world programming efforts.