Professional in C# and Visual Basic Part 80. Building on the revolutionary release, adds several key new developer features including AJAX, LINQ, and a new CSS designer in Visual Web Developer 2008. The dramatic reduction in code that developers realized from the more than 50 new server controls in now allows developers the time to make their applications more interactive with AJAX, to work with data in their preferred language with LINQ, and to build visually attractive and consistent standards-based sites with CSS. . | Chapter 15 Personalization If you worked with the SQL Server personalization provider using SQL Server Express files as explained earlier you probably found it easy to use. The personalization provider works right out of the box without any set up or configuration on your part. Using the SQL Server personalization provider with a full-blown version of SQL Server however is a bit of a different story. Although it is not difficult to work with you must set up and configure your SQL Server before using it. provides a couple of ways to set up and configure SQL Server for the personalization framework. One way is through the SQL Server Setup Wizard and the other method is by running some of the SQL Server scripts provided with the .NET Framework . Using the SQL Server Setup Wizard is covered in detail in Chapter 12. To use this wizard to set up your SQL Server for the personalization features you must first open up the tool by invoking it from the Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt. You open this command prompt by selecting Start O All Programs O Visual Studio 2008 O Visual Studio Tools O Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt. At the prompt type in to open the GUI of the SQL Server Setup Wizard. If you step through the wizard you can set up your SQL Server instance for many of the systems such as the personalization system. Using SQL Scripts to Install Personalization Features Another option is to use the same SQL scripts that these tools and wizards use. If you look at C windows Framework from this location you can see the install and remove scripts and . Running these scripts provides your database with the tables needed to run the personalization framework. Be forewarned that you must run the script before running the personalization script or any of the new other system .
