Building Web services with the .NET Framework is easy—easy, that is, unless the Web services are secure. There is no standard, agreed-upon method for exposing Web services over the Internet in such a way that only authorized users can call them. Jeff Prosise jumps into one method of tackling this now.

Does your C# ASP.NET application scream or does it trip along? From industry leader Jeff Prosise, you learn to use the application cache to make your applications scream.

This is the first of three parts that make up Chapter 5, 'Web Forms' from Jeff Prosise's book, Microsoft Programming .NET. In this first part of the sample chapter, Jeff provides a Web application primer.