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Learn the strategies that developers at Microsoft use to build great ASP.NET applications—and get their sample programs! This in-depth insider’s guide shares the hard-won, hard-core coding experience of the Microsoft ASP.NET development team, revealing the most productive ways to exploit ASP.NET features and functionality to build dynamic Web solutions faster. From maximizing application scalability and performance to designing and implementing security features, you get the best practices, peer-to-peer advice, and reusable, real-world code to take your own Web development expertise to the next level.

Discover how to:

• Reduce coding time with server controls and data controls
• Lear best practices for managing client, application, and request state
• Use output caching and partial page caching to boost program functionality and scalability
• Simplify development for mobile and handheld devices with ASP.NET mobile controls
• Implement security features—including authentication, authorization, impersonation, server hardening, and code access security
• Use debug and trace to troubleshoot bottlenecks before your site goes live
• Know the steps for performance tuning—and where to invest your time for the biggest payoffs
• Answer the “rewrite or integrate?” question when planning application migration strategy

About the Authors

Matthew Gibbs is a lead software design engineer on the Microsoft ASP.NET team and was part of the product teams for Active Server Pages 3.0, Internet Information Services (IIS) versions 4.0 and 5.0, Mobile Internet Toolkit, and Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1.

Rob Howard is a Microsoft program manager responsible for caching, session state, and other ASP.NET infrastructure features. He also runs the ASP.NET Web site and ASP.NET Forums, as well as speaking at conferences and writing books and articles.