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Great ASP.NET 2.0 Tutorial Videos Online

There are some exceptionally good videos especially for those who want to jump-start .NET 2.0. Check it out and explore some really cool features associated with .net 2.0 Data Access – Create a new database from scratch, define a table, populate it with data..... Master Pages and Site Navigation – Create a consistent master page layout for a site using the new ASP.NET Master Pages Feature. Then create a site navigation menu using site navigation and the new TreeView control. Membership and Roles – Add an authentication and authorization system to a site from scratch, and implement login, create user, change password, password reset, and role based security in a secure way. Profiles and Themes – Enable per-user profile personalization on a site. Then use this together with the new Themes/Skins feature to allow a visiting user to customize and personalize the look and feel of a site. Web Parts and Personalization – Enable customizable drag/drop portal UI within web-pages, and allow visit

Multiple CSS Classes on One Element/Control

You can apply multiple css styles on one element. For example, let's assume we have two css classes in the style sheet named "nrml" and "center" respectively .nrml { font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size:10px;} .center { text-align: center;} You can apply both the above 2 styles to a div using the following syntax. <div class="nrml center" id="Layer2"> It will render with both classes applied in Internet Explorer 5.0+, Netscape 7+ and Opera 7. CSS 2.0 is really cool and there are lot of powerful unexplored areas

Make printer friendly web pages easily, avoid banners, images from printing

<LINK rel="stylesheet" type"text/css" href="print.css" media="print"> The styles in the print.css will be used only when the document is printed. These styles will have no effect on the display of the document when viewed using a monitor, audio browser, or any other non-printing device. So you need not make seaparate printer friendly pages, but just make a printer friendly style sheet and link it to web page with media="print". I will explain it with real example. First we write a stylesheet for screen display, say screen.css BODY {color: silver; background: black;} A:link {color: yellow; background: #333333; text-decoration: none;} A:visited {color: white; background: #333333; text-decoration: none;} A:active {color: black; background: white; text-decoration: none;} H1, H2, H3 {color: #CCCCCC; background: black; padding-bottom: 1px; border-bottom: 1px solid gray;} Now we have to make a relatively simple stylesheet for printing, s