Summary
This chapter presented the key features that move you to being able to build web applications that generate content that is driven by input provided by users or by state information—or, as is often the case, by a combination of both.
Understanding how ASP.NET works with HTML forms is important. It forms the underpinnings of both MVC and Web Forms, which are the two dominant ASP.NET web application frameworks. HTML forms are the main way in which users can change the state of an application, but not the only way. You’ll see another example when we look at Ajax in Chapter 11.
The ASP.NET state features simplify the process of creating a coherent web application out of a series of otherwise disconnected web page requests. The trick with ...
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