Developing Microsoft® ASP.NET Server Controls and Components

Chapter 2. Page Programming Model

• A Sample Page

• Server Controls

• From Text to Controls

• Code Model

• Page Execution Model

• ASP.NET Pages in a Visual Designer

ASP.NET provides a new programming model for creating the user interface of a Web application. This programming model makes it possible to create programmable Web pages that have a clean separation of code and presentation. If you have used Active Server Pages, the previous generation of the Microsoft Web programming technology, you will find that ASP.NET is significantly richer and easier to use. Web Forms, the user interface technology in ASP.NET, provides an object-oriented approach for developing server applications. It provides the benefits of abstraction, a rich object model, compilation, encapsulation, ...