All of the tutorials we’ve examined so far have used a tiered architecture consisting of presentation, Business Logic, and Data Access layers. The Data Access Layer (DAL) was crafted in the first tutorial (Creating a Data Access Layer) and the Business Logic Layer in the second (Creating a Business Logic Layer). Starting with the Displaying Data With the ObjectDataSource tutorial, we saw how to use ASP.NET 2.0’s new ObjectDataSource control to declaratively interface with the architecture from the presentation layer.
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What’s New in Visual Studio 2008?
- Multi-Targeting Support
- New HTML Designer an

Multi-Targeting Support
- Visual Studio 2008 supports targeting multiple versions of the .NET Framework
- Choose which Framework version to target when opening or creating an application
– .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5
- Visual Studio IDE only shows features appropriate for your selected target version
– Toolbox/Add New Item/Add Reference/IntelliSense
- Open 2.0 project in Visual Studio 2008?
– Dialog offers option to upgrade, or leave it alone
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Laying Out the Foundations
Now that you’ve convinced the client that you can create a cool web site to complement the client’s store activity, it’s time to stop celebrating and start thinking about how to put into practice all the promises made to the client. As usual, when you lay down on paper the technical requirements you must meet, everything starts to seem a bit more complicated than initially anticipated.

It is strongly recommended to consistently follow an efficient project-management methodology to maximize the chances of the project’s success, on budget and on time. Most project-management theories imply that an initial requirements/specifications document containing the details of the project you’re about to create has been signed by you and the client. You can use this document as a guide while creating the solution, and it also allows you to charge extra in case the client brings new requirements or requests changes after development has started. See Appendix B for more details.
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BlueDragon 7.0.1 for the Microsoft .NET Framework (commonly referred to as BlueDragon.NET) allows CFML applications to be deployed on Windows servers running the Microsoft .NET Framework, the Microsoft IIS web server, and ASP.NET. The Microsoft .NET Framework is built-in to Windows 2008 Server, Windows Vista, and Windows 2003 Server; and, can be installed onto Windows 2000 and Windows XP. While most web applications on .NET are built with ASP.NET and other components of the .NET framework, BlueDragon makes it possible for the .NET Framework to also process CFML applications. Indeed, BlueDragon.NET is the only way to run CFML on the .NET Framework.
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Migrating Atlas applications to ASP.NET AJAX sounds like a rather hard and messy task; all applications have to be changed. However, in most cases, not much effort is required for the migration. There are several reasons for this. First, the most important features of Atlas changed only marginally in ASP.NET AJAX. And second, the most convenient features already exist, not in the ASP.NET AJAX package itself but in the Atlas Control Toolkit, which is now called ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.
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WebParts are the building blocks of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server pages. By using a simple pattern, you can use NetAdvantage for ASP.NET to target this powerful platform. In this guide, you will learn the key steps necessary to get started in building your own custom web part.

An Introduction to SharePoint
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is a powerful web-based portal package that promotes communication and collaboration with-in an organization. MOSS can be used to quickly build web applications, through the Web Parts Framework. Web Parts themselves, are packaged components that when added to a page can provide functional pieces of an application such as data visualization, or data entry.
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A Web service is a network of coordinated applications in the backend behind an http-governed Web server. The Web server is addressed by http-clients across the Internet. ASP.NET is one example for the coordination technology. However, the security analysis holds for Web services in general, not only for ASP.NET.
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As much as I would like people to believe that DotNetNuke was intentionally created as a premier open source project for the Microsoft platform, it is unfortunately not the case. As is true with many open source projects, the software was created with commercial intentions in mind, and only when it was discovered that its true purpose would not be realized was it reconsidered as an open source project.
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