Summary

This chapter leapt into the details of Web Part personalization. First, you learned how to enable a user to make both User and Shared scoped personalization changes to a page. Next, you learned how to mark different properties of a Web Part as personalizable. You learned how to use the IPersonalizable interface for advanced personalization scenarios.

You also learned how to administer a Web Part application. In particular, you learned methods of pruning stale personalization data from a Web Part application. You also learned to generate a report of how much personalization data is being stored for each application user.

Finally, you studied the advanced topic of creating custom personalization providers. You learned how to create both a custom Query String Personalization Provider and a custom Anonymous Personalization Provider.