Sams Teach Yourself C# 5.0 in 24 Hours

Hour 20. Building a Web Application

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• Understanding web application architecture

• Working with ASP.NET

• Creating a web application

• Understanding data validation

Up until now, you have focused on building applications that run on the desktop. These applications enable you to use the full richness of the Windows platform in your applications. They also pose potential deployment concerns because these applications typically must be installed on the end user’s computer. Although technologies such as ClickOnce ease these issues, there are times when building such an application is not the most appropriate choice.

Caution: Visual Studio Express for Web

If you use Visual Studio Express for Windows 8 or Visual Studio ...