Hour 22. Allowing Users to Add Guestbook Entries

The previous hour was spent planning for the online guestbook application. In this hour we'll start developing the first of the two ASP.NET Web pages needed, the ASP.NET Web page for creating a new guestbook entry.

The first thing we'll need to do to create this ASP.NET Web page is implement the user interface sketched in Figure 21.1. This involves adding the needed Web controls to the Web page and setting their properties accordingly. We'll discuss these aspects in the first section, “Implementing the User Interface.”

Once the Web controls have been added, the ASP.NET Web page's HTML portion will have been completed, leaving only the source code portion to implement. The source code portion will ...

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