Part I. Core Concepts

Before you can code an ASP.NET website, you need to master a small set of fundamental skills. In this part, you'll consider the .NET Framework, which supports every .NET application (Chapter 1), the Visual Studio design tool that helps you build and test websites (Chapter 2), and the ASP.NET infrastructure that makes websites work (Chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6).

Although these topics may seem like straightforward review for a professional ASP.NET developer, there are some critically important finer points. Every serious ASP.NET developer needs to thoroughly understand details such as the life cycle of web pages and web applications, the ASP.NET request processing pipeline, state management, and the ASP.NET configuration model. ...

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