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In this chapter, you learned the basics of Visual Web Developer 2005, and you built your first interactive web application. You also learned about object-oriented programming (OOP). As you progress throughout the book, you will quickly be building more advanced web applications including database applications. But first, you need to get more familiar with your development environment. Chapter 2 takes you on a guided tour of the IDE so you will be able to navigate around quickly and accomplish your tasks.

In this chapter we have taken an up-close look at all the tools available throughout the Visual Web Developer IDE. We examined all the key menu options available and we took a look at how to customize the toolbars for easy access to key tasks. We discussed excellent features such as code refactoring, IntelliSense, and dockable window panes. As mentioned at the beginning of the chapter, it is not the most exciting material, but we think it’s valuable to know, as you’ll see later on in the book.

This chapter discussed SQL Server Express and how it works. You learned what a database is and the various objects that can exist within it: tables, views, stored procedures, user-defined functions, and triggers. You learned the basic SQL syntax dealing with both Data Manipulation Language (DML) and Data Definition Language (DDL). You took a thorough tour of the Express Manager, the SQLcmd command-line tool, and the Visual Web Developer integration with SQL Express. In Chapter 4 we look at creating websites in Visual Web Developer.

This chapter discussed all of the server controls that are included within .NET Framework 2.0 and also within Visual Web Developer. All of these controls will greatly aid in developing your web applications in terms of speed, efficiency, and consistency.

The best way to master and gain the most thorough understanding of how the server controls work is to practice and experiment with each of them in what we term a , where the only purpose is to experiment, in this case with each of the server controls.

In this chapter, you have learned through demonstration how master pages, themes, and skins will help in your overall development of websites and keep a consistent look and visual structure. As web applications grow in size and complexity, it is more difficult to maintain this consistency. However, using master pages with themes and skins will greatly aid in efficiency and time to completion.

This chapter explained the importance of the concept of data access to developing web applications. You had the opportunity to configure a data source and connection as well as display the data to the end user.

This chapter on website navigation covered mostly static content sites with static pages, but you also learned how to handle situations where pages will accept query strings providing dynamic content. Implementing this functionality was possible using very little code. The .NET Framework provides these tools for navigation, helping you supply professional and concise navigation in all of your web applications.

This chapter discussed how important it is to enable websites with global capabilities and showed how easily this can be achieved with the tools provided in the .NET Framework.

In this chapter you learned how to add customization to your web application to give it a more personal and intimate feel. With the advancement and complexity of web applications, many end users and customers want to be able to have a certain degree of control or customization over their content. By using the tools discussed in this chapter, you will be able to deliver this type of rich user experience.

In this chapter, you learned the importance of having configuration settings and administrative functionality to address these settings. All of the settings are confined within the web.config and machine.config files, which are both XML-based files.

You can access and view these settings easily from a variety of methods, including the Configuration Management API, which provides programmatic access, and the Web Site Administration Tool.