Asp.NET 2.

0 Job Interview Questions (Part 1)

1. What are the new Data Controls in Asp.net 2.0?

Data access in ASP.NET 2.0 can be accomplished completely declaratively (no code) using the new data-

bound and data source controls. There are new data source controls to represent different data

backends such as SQL database, business objects, and XML, and there are new data-bound controls for

rendering common UI for data, such as gridview, detailsview, and formview.

2. What are the new Navigation Controls in Asp.net 2.0?

The navigation controls provide common UI for navigating between pages in your site, such as treeview,

menu, and sitemappath. These controls use the site navigation service in ASP.NET 2.0 to retrieve the

custom structure you have defined for your site.

3. What are the new Login Controlsin Asp.net 2.0?

The new login controls provide the building blocks to add authentication and authorization-based UI to

your site, such as login forms, create user forms, password retrieval, and custom UI for logged in users

or roles. These controls use the built-in membership and role services in ASP.NET 2.0 to interact with

the user and role information defined for your site.

4. What are the new Web Part Controls in Asp.net 2.0 ?

Web parts are an exciting new family of controls that enable you to add rich, personalized content and

layout to your site, as well as the ability to edit that content and layout directly from your application

pages. These controls rely on the personalization services in ASP.NET 2.0 to provide a unique

experience for each user in your application.

5. What are Master Pages?

This feature provides the ability to define common structure and interface elements for your site, such

as a page header, footer, or navigation bar, in a common location called a "master page", to be shared

by many pages in your site. In one simple place you can control the look, feel, and much of functionality

for an entire Web site. This improves the maintainability of your site and avoids unnecessary duplication

of code for shared site structure or behavior.

6. What are Themes and Skins in 2.0, explain usgae scenario?

The themes and skins features in ASP.NET 2.0 allow for easy customization of your site's look-and-feel.
 You can define style information in a common location called a "theme", and apply that style information

globally to pages or controls in your site. Like Master Pages, this improves the maintainability of your

site and avoid unnecessary duplication of code for shared styles.

7. What is a profile object, why is it used?

Using the new personalization services in ASP.NET 2.0 you can easily create customized experiences

within Web applications. The Profile object enables developers to easily build strongly-typed, sticky data

stores for user accounts and build highly customized, relationship based experiences. At the same time,

a developer can leverage Web Parts and the personalization service to enable Web site visitors to

completely control the layout and behavior of the site, with the knowledge that the site is completely

customized for them. Personalizaton scenarios are now easier to build than ever before and require

significantly less code and effort to implement.

8. What is Configuration API?

ASP.NET 2.0 contains new configuration management APIs, enabling users to programmatically build

programs or scripts that create, read, and update Web.config and machine.config configuration files.

9. What is MMC Admin Tool?

ASP.NET 2.0 provides a new comprehensive admin tool that plugs into the existing IIS Administration

MMC, enabling an administrator to graphically read or change common settings within our XML

configuration files.

10. Explain the use of Pre-compilation Tool?

ASP.NET 2.0 delivers a new application deployment utility that enables both developers and

administrators to precompile a dynamic ASP.NET application prior to deployment. This precompilation

automatically identifies any compilation issues anywhere within the site, as well as enables ASP.NET

applications to be deployed without any source being stored on the server (one can optionally remove

the content of .aspx files as part of the compile phase), further protecting your intellectual property.

11. How is application management and maintenance improved in Asp.net 2.0?

ASP.NET 2.0 also provides new health-monitoring support to enable administrators to be automatically

notified when an application on a server starts to experience problems. New tracing features will enable

administrators to capture run-time and request data from a production server to better diagnose issues.

ASP.NET 2.0 is delivering features that will enable developers and administrators to simplify the day-to-
 day management and maintenance of their Web applications.

12. What are Provider-driven Application Services? explain in detail?

ASP.NET 2.0 now includes built-in support for membership (user name/password credential storage) and

role management services out of the box. The new personalization service enables quick

storage/retrieval of user settings and preferences, facilitating rich customization with minimal code. The

new site navigation system enables developers to quickly build link structures consistently across a site.

As all of these services are provider-driven, they can be easily swapped out and replaced with your own

custom implementation. With this extensibility option, you have complete control over the data store

and schema that drives these rich application services.

13. Explain Server Control Extensibility with reference to Asp.net 2.0 ?

ASP.NET 2.0 includes improved support for control extensibility, such as more base classes that

encapsulate common behaviors, improved designer support, more APIs for interacting with client-side

script, metadata-driven support for new features like themes and accessibility verification, better state

management, and more.

14. What are the Data Source Controls?

Data access in ASP.NET 2.0 is now performed declaratively using data source controls on a page. In this

model, support for new data backend storage providers can be easily added by implementing custom

data source controls. Additionally, the SqlDataSource control that ships in the box has built-in support

for any ADO.NET managed provider that implements the new provider factory model in ADO.NET.

15. What are Compilation Build Providers?

Dynamic compilation in ASP.NET 2.0 is now handled by extensible compilation build providers, which

associate a particular file extension with a handler that knows how to compile that extension

dynamically at runtime. For example, .resx files can be dynamically compiled to resources, .wsdl files to

web service proxies, and .xsd files to typed DataSet objects. In addition to the built-in support, it is

easy to add support for additional extensions by implementing a custom build provider and registering it

in Web.config.

16. What is Expression Builders, why would you use it?

ASP.NET 2.0 introduces a declarative new syntax for referencing code to substitute values into the page,

called Expression Builders. ASP.NET 2.0 includes expression builders for referencing string resources for

localization, connection strings, application settings, and profile values. You can also write your own

expression builders to create your own custom syntax to substitute values in a page rendering.
17. Is ASP.NET 64-Bit enabled? how?
ASP.NET 2.0 is now 64-bit enabled, meaning it can take advantage of the full memory address space of

new 64-bit processors and servers. Developers can simply copy existing 32-bit ASP.NET applications

onto a 64-bit ASP.NET 2.0 server and have them automatically be JIT compiled and executed as native

64-bit applications (no source code changes or manual re-compile are required).

18. Explain how Caching in Asp.net 2.0 is different from Caching in Asp.net 1.1?
ASP.NET 2.0 also now includes automatic database server cache invalidation. This powerful and easy-to-

use feature allows developers to aggressively output cache database-driven page and partial page

content within a site and have ASP.NET automatically invalidate these cache entries and refresh the

content whenever the back-end database changes. Developers can now safely cache time-critical

content for long periods without worrying about serving visitors stale data.