Livin' the life...

It's after midnight and I'm still awake pushing hard at my ASP.NET 2 (asp2 hereafter). Thus far it's been an interesting ride, and out of all these "cool" features that asp2 Webcast presenters boast of, I think the coolest (and easiest) thing I've seen is the entire 'securing the web site' functionality.

That's right, not Themes (CSS applied to .NET controls), or Master pages (a theory that was around for ages but now streamlined in VS'05) or even the new, very highly regarded GridView control (even though this is pretty cool!). The 'securing the web site' tools have taken the cake!

The way VS'05 + asp2 handles the basic security for a web site using the ASP.NET Web site Management tool (which integrates nicely with the behind-the-scenes ASPNETDB), Roles, Membership, Login controls, etc, is pretty useful once you get it understood. I've also tried to do some basic 'security checks' on some small test sites I created and the level of security seems to be pretty OK as well.

Now with asp2 going full steam ahead, I assume it'll soon be 'complete' (to an extent) and next up will be AJAX (I really hope that's fun...). That's one thing about the MS-route though, there's never a dull moment. .NET Framework 3.0 anyone??