Chapter 8. Building Web Applications with VB .NET and ASP.NET

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Most developers today are building Web applications in one form or another. For the past three and a half years or so, Microsoft developers have been building Web applications using Active Server Pages, or ASP. ASP is a technology in which the pages are a mix of HTML and a scripting language, such as VBScript or JavaScript. The HTML was basically static, and was rendered on the client just as you typed it in the page. The script was interpreted on-the-fly, and generated additional HTML. This generated HTML was mixed in with the static HTML, and the page was sent to the ...

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