C#® Developer's Guide to ASP.NET, XML, and ADO.NET

Attributes of the Page Object

In ASP.old, you wrote the majority of your page-rendering code against five objects (Application, Request, Response, Server, and Session). All these objects exist in ASP.NET, although their relative utility is diminished somewhat by the more structured event-driven paradigm provided by ASP.NET.

For example, in ASP.old you typically built applications based on forms that were submitted to the server and handled in script. The script automatically parsed the elements of the form into members of the Request.Form collection. You could then send data back to the browser as a combination of templated HTML and calls to the Write method of the Response object.

In ASP.NET, you don't have to use Request.Form to read the contents ...