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.