hi

any one tell me what is the difference between Customization and personalization?

Susee:

any one tell me what is the difference between Customization and personalization?

Webparts Customization will basically happen in WebpartsZone including the Dragging and Dropping of webparts, verb interactions editing of webparts.. and how you arrange the webparts in the zone is what we called Customization. After customization happens ASPNET provides ASPNETDB wherein all Customization will be save in the database per user or all users and that is  called personalization... What i mean is that once you have customize the webparts then it will automatically save the settings in the Database and saving the data to database is what we called personalization.. Personalization uses an ASP.NET applicationservices database to store personalization data. By default, ASP.NET creates this database automatically in a subfolder named "App_Data"when an ASP.NET application first uses personalization or one of theother application services such as roles, membership or profiles. Also bydefault, ASP.NET creates the database as a single SQL Server Express databasefile that contains the database schema for all of the applicationservices

Thank you for your reply. could you please tell me how to create the AspNetDB?

Susee :

Thank you for your reply. could you please tell me how to create the AspNetDB?

ASPNETDB will be automatically created when you compile and run your web application with webparts.. 

 If you are setting up multiple versions of the database for development testing or if you are setting up the database in a production environment where you are not compiling code, you can use aspnet_regsql.exe. It is found in the .Net framework folder (e.g., C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727). In this interface you can create the database with any name that you would like.