ASP.NET in a Nutshell

Name

<pages>

Synopsis

<pages
   buffer=boolean
   enableSessionState="true|false|ReadOnly”
   enableViewState=boolean
   enableViewStateMac=boolean
   autoEventWireup=boolean
   smartNavigation=boolean
   pageBaseType=typeInfo
   userControlBaseType=typeInfo />

Contains attributes used to configure the default settings for ASP.NET pages and user controls. These settings can be overridden by attributes on the @ Page or @ Control directive.

Scope

Any

Attributes

buffer

Specifies whether buffering of page output is on or off. The default is True.

enableSessionState

Specifies whether a page has access to the Session state module. Acceptable values include True, False, and ReadOnly. The default is True.

enableViewState

Specifies whether ViewState is enabled at the page level. The default is True.

enableViewStateMac

Specifies at the page level whether a machine authentication check (MAC) is performed on the ViewState hidden field. This specification can help identify client-side tampering with the ViewState. The default is True.

autoEventWireup

Specifies whether ASP.NET will automatically support specific page events, such as Page_Load. The default is True.

smartNavigation

Specifies whether the Smart Navigation feature, for which IE 5 or above provides support for posting back and refreshing only portions of a page, is turned on at the page level. The default is False.

pageBaseType

Specifies the base class from which all pages are derived. The default is System.Web.UI.Page.

userControlBaseType

Specifies the ...