September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
26h 5m
English
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ASP.NET
ASP.NET is the name Microsoft has given to the combination of its two web development technologies: Web Forms and web services. Using ASP.NET, it is easier than ever to create web applications that are dynamic and data-driven, that scale well, and that work well across a broad range of browsers without any custom coding by the developer.
Used in conjunction with Visual Studio .NET, Web Forms allow you to apply Rapid Application Development techniques to building web applications. Simply drag and drop controls onto your form, double-click on a control, and write the code to respond to the associated event.
Generally speaking, web services are web applications without a user interface that allow you to provide services to other web sites or applications. As you’ll see in later chapters, ASP.NET allows you to create web services using a simple text editor or facilitate the process by using Visual Studio .NET.
ASP.NET Versus ASP
The key differences between ASP.NET and ASP are:
ASP.NET is much more event-driven, with the event handlers running on the server.
ASP.NET separates code from HTML.
The code in ASP.NET is compiled, not interpreted.
Configuration and deployment are greatly simplified.
There are many other minor differences, but these four are the key changes, and they change everything. The event-driven model in ASP.NET is very powerful and is explored in detail in Chapter 3. The separation of HTML from code, and the fact that the code is compiled rather than interpreted, allows ...
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