when you are connecting to an IIS instance, you now have several choices. When you open a Web application project in Visual Studio .NET, you are asked to select a connection method.
figure 7. Connecting to a Web application through FTP
you can use Front Page Server Extensions, FTP, Share Point, or several other mechanisms to transfer files to the server and synchronize code.
another major change to traditional ASP.NET 1.x involves the ways in which Web applications can be compiled. In ASP.NET 1.x, applications were either compiled on first request, or in a batch mode on start up. Both methods had advantages and disadvantages. The most notable shared disadvantage was that you generally had to deploy uncompiled code to a production server. This code could be manipulated directly on the production server, which was either an advantage or a disadvantage depending on your security needs.
asp.net 2.0 offers a new compilation method that pre-compiles your proprietary source code into binary assemblies for deployment. The pre-compiled application consists of assemblies that can be strongly named and signed, and various resource files, such as images that have no significant value to an attacker. The pre-compiled application is therefore much more secure than a normal ASP.NET application.
web sites require consistent navigation to provide a pleasant user experience. Traditional ASP applications rely on adding hyperlinks, or user controls that encapsulate hyperlinks. Creating these hyperlinks is a time consuming process and often causes problems when pages are moved to new locations within the application. ASP.NET 1.x did not have a useful solution to this problem. You still had to encode links in HTML tags or within ASP.NET control properties. ASP.NET 2.0 offers many new features to improve site navigation and reduce the maintenance tasks of changing the physical locations of Web pages.
asp.net 2.0 allows you to define your application''s navigation based on a logical structure. Using a logical structure for navigation allows you to create a navigation path for your application by logically relating Web pages to one another, instead of depending on the physical location of each page on the server. By organizing the navigation logically, you can reorganize your application''s navigation without modifying any code. You can also use the logical structure to create navigational aids such as tree views, menus, and "bread crumb" trails.
the ASP.NET 2.0 sitemap class exposes the logical structure of your Web site. You can define the underlying structure using XML with the site navigation provider included in ASP.NET 2.0, or you can use any other data format with a custom provider. Once yo
