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Putting Web Forms in Context
The core idea behind ASP.NET Web Forms is to make web application development as similar to Windows application development as possible. To make sense of this, we need to go back in time.
Visual Basic (VB) was all the rage when the first version of ASP.NET was released. Web applications were relatively new. In Web Forms, Microsoft created a web application tool kit that aimed to hide the complexity of web technology from the programmer (much as VB used to hide much of the complexity of Windows from the traditional application programmer).
ASP.NET Web Forms has been a success—a huge success. So many Web Forms applications exist in the world that there is no sensible way to count them. Just lately, ...
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