Dynamic web pages are great; you can adapt the resulting page to your user, show other user's activity, offer different products to your customers based on their navigation history, and so on. But the more dynamic a website is, the more database queries you'll probably need to perform.

This chapter describes the ASP.NET MVC project template that is installed in Visual Studio. A simple application is built, briefly touching on all of the aspects of the ASP.NET MVC framework.

AJAX is modern new technology which gives you an advanced way to improve the quality, speed and interactivity of internet applications.