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In this installment of Wicked Code, Jeff Prosise updates his original ASP.NET 2.0 SqlSiteMapProvider to add support for automatic reloading of the site map following a change to the site map database.

Using Web Part connections, you can make it easier for your users to visualize the relationships that exist between items of data, and you can synchronize behavior and manage data in dynamic and interesting ways. Ken Getz explains.

While implementing Client Script Call Back, you may receive the error "The target '__Page' for the callback could not be found or did not implement ICallbackEventHandler." This article discusses on the same.

Basic Instincts: Introducing ASP.NET Web Part Connections

Many developers are familiar only with the high-level .NET frameworks like Web Forms and Web services that sit at the very top level of the ASP.NET hierarchy. This article discusses the lower-level aspects of ASP.NET and explains how requests move from Web Server to the ASP.NET runtime and then through the ASP.NET HTTP pipeline to process requests.

Bill Evjen shows you how to use the new FileUpload server control in ASP.NET 2.0

Online Article: Top-Ten Annotations and Remarks about the Wonderful and Powerful New Set of Features in ASP.NET 2.0

You'll still write a good deal of code in ASP.NET 2.0.Don't completely trust those who say that ASP.NET 2.0 cuts 70% of the amount of code you're called to write. You'll end up writing more or less the same quantity of code, but you'll write code of different quality. You'll have more components and less boilerplate code to tie together pages and controls. Features like the provider model, data source controls, and master pages make coding easier and equally effective. But since there's no magic behind, you have to learn the implications of each feature you employ. In the end, ASP.NET 2.0 comes with code behind, not magic behind.

Invoking multiple tasks that are slow or lengthy always poses a challenge in front of developers. Normal approach is to develop a multithreaded component and delegate the tasks to it. In ASP.NET 1.x there was no direct support at web form level for executing such tasks in asynchronous manner. ASP.NET 2.0 on the other hand allows you to execute tasks asynchronously from within the web form itself. This article explores the two possible approaches with examples.

There will be many times where you will need to have a time table in your applications. This articles discusses on the same.

ASP.NET 2.0 adds support for altering where ViewState data is stored for your pages. This article looks at how a new class can be created and used to store ViewState information in Session rather than the default hidden field.