Chapter 26. Introduction to Web Parts

In This Chapter

• Web Part Basics

• Using a Personalization Provider

• Building Your First Web Part page

• Creating Web Parts

• Building Connected Web Parts

In Chapter 25, "ASP.NET Personalization and Customization," you learned how to use themes, skins, and user profiles to store meaningful information about users and to enable those users to make decisions about the look and feel of individual pages or an entire website.

This chapter introduces you to the concept of Web Parts, which give users control over both the layout and the content of pages, providing an extremely powerful user experience. You will learn the basics of what Web Parts are and how they work, as well as how to place Web Parts on a page, create Web Parts, and even build connected Web Parts.