ASP.NET by Example

File Structure

An ASP.NET page (as opposed to a control, service, and so on) can be written in any number of languages. The most common are Visual Basic and C#. An ASP.NET page generally has several items:

• Page directives. Information provided to the compiler about the page. For example, a directive indicating that the page uses C# as its default language is written as follows:

  <%@ Page language="C#" %>
  

  Directives normally appear at the top of the page, but may appear anywhere. (Page directives are detailed in the section “Page Directives.”)

• Scripting. Code that is executed either by the server or the client. Several different formats exist for server-executed code:

   <% Code written here is executed %> <%= Code written here is evaluated and the ...