One of the nicest features of ASP.NET 2.0 from my point of view is personalization. How often have you manually saved user-related data such as addresses, phone numbers, web site addresses, and so on? Did you ever think of persisting the shopping basket of your Web application between several visits from a particular user?
The new personalization feature is the answer for this and many other issues. Without a single line of code, you can save nearly any information relating to your application's users—even if they haven't been authenticated yet! You don't believe it? Then keep on reading!
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ASP.NET version 2.0 provides another type of personalization called Page Personalization or Web Parts. These topics are described in Chapter 8. |