Breaking Down the Parts of ASP.NET

Now that you know a little about what ASP.NET is, it's time to go into some more detail on the parts of ASP.NET that are relevant to this book:

  • Server controls

  • Server-side event handling

  • Multilanguage support

  • Web services

  • Session state management

  • Caching

Server Controls

As mentioned previously, ASP.NET ships with a set of stock server controls for executing commonly used page functions, such as input validation, data-driven tables, and so on. Server controls can be broken into two major categories: HTML server controls and ASP.NET server controls.

HTML Server Controls

Any HTML element can be converted to an HTML server control with the addition of the runat="server" attribute. Once you've added this attribute, the ...

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