August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1224 pages
34h 17m
English
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The Basics of an ASP.NET Website
Websites in Visual Studio start with a website project. The website project represents a connection between Visual Studio, the development version of your website (see Chapter 4, “Solutions and Projects,” for more information), and a web server, be it local or otherwise. What is meant by website, however, continues to evolve and expand.
Simple HTML sites with just text, hyperlinks, and a few images are rarely created anymore or even discussed seriously as websites. Instead, .NET has pushed the definition of website well beyond the original ASP (active server pages) model that combined HTML with some server-side script. Nowadays, a website means user-interactive web forms; compiled code that links those web forms ...