This book is a comprehensive guide for professional ASP.NET application developers. It describes technologies for creating efficient, scalable, and reliable sites on the ASP.NET 2.0 platform that have a rich and consistent user experience. You will learn how to create master pages, analyze the output of a site and adapt it to the capabilities of the browser, get acquainted with a wide range of ASP.NET tools for working with data, learn how to effectively cache information, authenticate the user and authorize his access to server resources. The book is addressed to those who is not limited to applied information gleaned from conventional tutorials, but intends to understand all the details of the internal functioning of the ASP.NET 2.0 runtime environment. Examples of program code and the Northwind Traders demo base are in the archive