What Is the Structure of This Book?

There are five parts to this book. The first helps you get ready to use ASP.NET and to understand the building blocks of the ASP.NET platform. By the end of these chapters, you will have all the software you require installed and ready to go.

Part II introduces the core features of the ASP.NET platform. You will learn how ASP.NET handles browser requests, how to create ASP.NET web pages, how to apply JavaScript to those pages, and how to create and consume web services.

Part III covers Web Forms, a set of features designed to make developing web applications similar to developing traditional Windows programs. Web Forms has fallen out of favor lately, but it is a powerful and flexible system, and it is worth ...

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