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Working with the Web Forms Designer
This chapter introduces the design tools that Visual Studio provides for developing Web Forms. If you have used any kind of rapid application development (RAD) tool or drag-and-drop designer, then you will recognize the basic themes that run throughout the Web Forms tooling.
You might get the impression in this chapter that I am not a fan of the Web Forms design tools. There is a degree of truth to this. I am uncomfortable with the idea of trying to hide away the details of HTML and HTTP when developing a web application, especially when this abstraction goes only so far. That said, I do like the way that the tools are tightly integrated with one another, even if they fall short of their ...
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