Pro ASP.NET2.0 Website Programming shows you how to harness the power of ASP.NET to build websites that tackle real business needs. The book's insights and practices help reduce maintenance costs, decrease development time, and manage user perception. You'll learn not only the technical implementation but also the business reasoning behind the ideas using real business situations, drawn directly from my consulting experience.Business application development projects routinely begin with limited resources, tight budgets, and constrained timelines. Many developers respond to these situations by immediately jumping into the code, hoping to make use of every last moment of time they've been given. Design considerations, configuration, reusable component creation, and structured error handling are the first casualties of this approach, often resulting in unmanageable code, bugs that are difficult to pinpoint, hacks, workarounds, and a generally stressful project.Time and time again, I've found that the only way to bring projects in on time and under budget is to invest some time upfront in finding ways to make the development project operate more smoothly and efficiently in the long run. So in my book, I show you how to, for example, build reusable components to help reduce the overall amount of code you need to write and to keep the user experience consistent; how to implement a process for error handling and reporting to help track down bugs; and how to leverage the existing components in ASP.NET to help solve problems.If you have a basic knowledge of ASP.NET, Visual Basic 2005, and Visual Studio, my book will show you how to tackle a wide range of typical website problems, including configuration, error handling, user management, profiles, searching, reporting, targeted advertisements, custom control development, web-based wizards, file uploads, http handlers, Web Parts, and security. In each case, I provide practical tips and guidelines to help you reduce development times and increase the maintainability of your ASP.NET 2.0 code.