Summary

This chapter covered a lot of ground. It discussed some of the issues concerning ASP.NET applications as a whole and the options you have when building and deploying these new applications. With the help of Visual Studio 2005, you now have options regarding which Web server to use when building your application and whether to work locally or remotely through the new built-in FTP capabilities.

ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 make it easy to build your pages using an inline coding model or a new and better code-behind model that is simpler to use and easier to deploy. You also learned about the new cross-posting capabilities and the new fixed folders that ASP.NET 2.0 has incorporated to make your life easier. These folders make their resources available dynamically with no work on your part. Finally, you saw some of the outstanding new compilation options that you have at your disposal. The next chapter examines some of the more advanced systems available to you in ASP.NET 2.0.