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We certainly covered a great deal of material within this chapter. It is extremely important to become familiar with the techniques discussed to give your web application the best security possible. As mentioned earlier, it is inevitable that someone may try to gain access to your sensitive data. Luckily, the .NET Framework 2.0 provides many options and methods that you can implement to stop these unauthorized attempts. You can never achieve or guarantee total security 100% of the time; however, implementing the methods we discussed in this chapter will give you the safeguards necessary to gain the greatest security possible.

In this chapter we explored many different techniques you can use to explore and examine your application to find exceptions and errors, a process otherwise known as debugging. Regardless of the size of the application or your experience level, there will undoubtedly come a time when your application will need to be debugged. By using a combination of all the items described in this chapter, including breakpoints, the debugging windows, and tracing, you will have some of the best tools available to exterminate any bugs or exceptions and finalize your applications so they have the most stability possible.

In this chapter, we examined the different precompilation methods and their advantages and disadvantages, along with the different methods used to deploy the application content. After developing your application, the work is not finished, however. A great deal of attention needs to be dedicated to considering the different precompilation options that will best fit your individual scenario.

In this chapter, we examined some techniques that can monitor the overall health and performance of your web application. We also looked at adding different types of caching to web applications that will add performance enhancements. Undoubtedly, the maintenance and monitoring of web applications will continue to be a task after you develop the application. The length of this task will vary depending on the size and complexity of the overall application.