Summary

This chapter's goals were as follows :

• To discuss the use of Web page and user control directives

• To demonstrate the use of custom attributes and reflection

• To explain the role of XML-based files configuration files

• To understand the .NET Framework configuration namespaces

• To explore the configuration needed for code access security

Yes, you have certainly covered a healthy amount of ground in this chapter. As you can see, the topic of configuration is broad. The chapter started by focusing on the ASP.NET page and user controls. From there you explored custom attributes, reflection, and XML-based configuration files. The later sections of this chapter's journey focused on the configuration namespaces and then code access security.

In the next chapter you will explore the topic of Enterprise Services (COM+) components .