Adding Some Meat

The goal of ASP.NET is rapid Web-based application development, so Microsoft has created 45 controls for ASP.NET applications. ASP.NET controls run server-side and automatically down level to the requesting client. Most Web sites today have code to support IE and Net scape, thus requiring the Web Developer to maintain two sets of code that accomplish the same thing. With the advent of server-side controls, this burden is soon to go away.

ASP.NET supports standard HTML controls as well as ASP.NET controls. In fact, the controls can co-exist within the same page and even nested within each other.

One of the main purposes of any application is to gather data and to present data in a meaningful fashion. Consider an internal Web Application ...

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