August 2002
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
22h 32m
English
Like ASP, ASP.NET automatically associates all executable pages and components under a particular virtual directory into a single Web application. In a Web application, certain state and functionality is often shared between all of those components. We’ll look at the handling of application-wide state in the next section; in this section, we’ll concentrate on application-wide functionality and configuration.
When people talk about a "Web application," they generally mean an instance of a particular application executing in the context of a Web server—analogous to an instance of a desktop application. You can have multiple instances of the same Web application running on different Web servers or even, given the ...
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