SVG Unleashed

Chapter 23. SVG .NET: Creating an Online Poll

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Database Structure

• Survey Administration Tool

• The Poll

In the Web world, very few announcements lead to unrivaled interest in both the open source and the closed source communities. In 1999 when Bill Gates first told the press about Microsoft's new .NET strategy, people were interested, but the strategy itself consisted of some theory and concepts without getting down to the nitty-gritty. This changed, however, when the first beta of the .NET Framework came out and, accompanying it, ASP.NET, the next generation of ASP.

ASP, short for Active Server Pages (not to be confused with Application Service Provider/Providing), is Microsoft's technology for serving dynamic Web content. ASP itself ...