ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed

Chapter 34. Building a Code Sample Website

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IN THIS CHAPTER

• Overview of the Sample Website

• Data Access and Validation

• Taking Advantage of Ajax

• Using the VirtualPathProvider Class

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The goal of this final chapter is to present an entire ASP.NET 3.5 application that takes advantage of many of the new features of the .NET 3.5 Framework. In this chapter, we build a code sample website that also includes a simple blog.

There are two motivations behind this chapter. First, most of the code samples in this book are very brief. The code samples are intended to illustrate a particular point in the fewest lines of code possible. There are challenges, however, that you do not encounter until you build a full-blown web application. My hope is ...