Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Summary

This chapter provides an overview of the ASP.NET technology and how you can build websites based on it. You read about important concepts on the ASP.NET model and how it maintains the application state; then you learned how to create a web application with Visual Basic 2015. You learned what web forms are and how the logic is divided into XHTML code for the user interface side and Visual Basic code for performing executive tasks. You took a look at available user controls, both server and HTML controls; then you put your hands on a sample web application to manage data exposed from an Entity Data Model. You learned the steps necessary to configure security for websites implementing login credentials. Finally, the chapter discussed how ...