Understanding Related Technologies
I have described the major components of ASP.NET, but there are a lot of affiliated technologies that you will encounter as you begin web application development. In the following sections, I describe some of the most widely known and explain how they relate to ASP.NET and to this book.
Dynamic Data
Many web applications simply exist to provide access to a database. There is no application logic as such, just a reasonably direct mapping between a set of grid-based and form-based web pages and a set of database tables.
Dynamic Data is a set of features that were added to ASP.NET version 4, specifically to allow rapid development of this kind of application, but it hasn’t really caught on. I think this is because ...
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