Working with Master Pages For many sites, there is a need for reusable way for maintaining a standardized appearance across the entire site. Those sites include common headers, footers and menus. Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0 consists of two conceptual elements: Master Pages Content Pages At runtime, the ASP.NET engine combines these elements into a single page for the end user. Master Pages is a feature coming in ASP.NET 2.0 , which enables to create sites with a common appearance driven by a single...
Asynchronous ASP.NET 2.0 Programming One of the coolest features in ASP.NET 2.0 is asynchronous pages. This feature increase scalability by using thread-pool threads more efficiently. With asynchronous pages, a thread which assigned from the thread-pool to process page request, is returned to the thread pool instead of waiting for an I/O operation to complete. This means more threads available to process incoming requests, and when I/O operation is completed, another thread from the pool is guarantee...