Understanding ASP.NET

The .NET Framework is a programming model for building, deploying, and running XML web services and applications, including Windows and web applications. ASP.NET includes the XML web services and web forms portions of the .NET Framework as seen Figure 1.1.

Figure 1.1. The .NET Framework with the portion that makes up ASP.NET highlighted.

If you look at Figure 1.1, you can see that XML web services and web forms have been encapsulated by a dashed line denoting that they are the portions that are exclusive to ASP.NET. We will be exploring the web forms portion of ASP.NET within this book very heavily and will briefly touch ...

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