Editor's Note: This article is excerpted from Dino Esposito's upcoming book, Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 [Microsoft Press, ISBN: 0735620245]. It has been edited for length and format to fit the ...

Master pages are transparent to end users, who see and invoke only the content pages' URLs. If they request a content page, the ASP.NET runtime applies a different compilation algorithm and builds the ...