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Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition
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Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

by Matthew MacDonald
November 2007
Beginner
954 pages
25h 7m
English
Apress
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5.2. Introducing Server Controls

ASP.NET introduces a remarkable new model for creating web pages. In old-style web development, programmers had to master the quirks and details of HTML before they could design a dynamic web page. Pages had to be carefully tailored to a specific task, and the only way to generate additional content was to generate raw HTML tags.

ASP.NET solves this problem with a higher-level model of server controls. These controls are created and configured as objects. They run on the web server and they automatically provide their own HTML output. Even better, server controls behave like their Windows counterparts by maintaining state and raising events that you can react to in code.

In the previous chapter, you built an ...

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