ASP.NET by Example

Configuring Your Application

Before ASP.NET, moving an ASP application from a testing environment to a production server was typically the most difficult portion of a project's life cycle. An external DLL would need its own deployment package to handle the appropriate registry entries. The server would need to be restarted. Security settings and policies had to be manually configured. A simple oversight while setting up NT, IIS, ASP, or DCOM could have disastrous consequences for everything and everyone.

ASP.NET simplifies this process. Ultimately, the server administrator maintains all the control, but the developer can deliver a single package that will handle all of the system level configuration requirements for your application. This deployment ...