Unlike many other ASP books that show examples for individual pages or features, the example in this book is an integrated end-to-end site (written in C#). The entire book and site has been written specifically for ASP 2.0, to use the ASP 2.0 features wherever they make sense.
The end-result is a website which features a layout with user-selectable themes, a membership system, a content management system for publishing and syndicating articles and photos, polls, mailing lists, forums, an e-commerce store with support for real-time credit card processing, homepage personalization, and localization. The book leads the reader through development of a site with:
This chapter introduces the project that we're going to develop in this book. I'll explain the concept behind the sample web site that is the subject of this book, but as you read along you should keep in mind that this is a general-purpose, data-driven, content-based style of web site that can easily be modified to meet the needs of a myriad of real-world web site requirements. Although we'll use many of the older features of ASP.NET, the clear focus of this book is directed at showing you how to leverage the powerful new features of ASP.NET 2.0 in a real-world, non-trivial web site.
This book follows a "Problem-Design-Solution" approach in each chapter: The Problem section explains the business requirements for the module designed in that chapter, the Design section is used to develop our roadmap for meeting those requirements, ... read full excerpt from ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution ebook
