Chapter 2. .NET Overview

IN THIS CHAPTER

Objectives

  • Understand what the .NET Framework is

  • Learn about the Common Language Runtime and how .NET components are packaged

  • Understand the execution flow of .NET components and ASP.NET pages

The purpose of this book isn't to teach you object-oriented programming, or even to guide you step-by-step through the .NET Framework. Rather, it's meant to illustrate how to build a robust business-to-consumer (B2C) e-Commerce site using the .NET Framework.

Having said that, let me also say that building Internet applications with .NET is different in many ways from building Internet applications with other tools, such as Visual Basic 6.0 and ASP 3.0. Therefore, before we discuss how we built MyGolfGear.NET, we should ...

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