ASP.NET by Example

Summary

ASP.NET applications are compiled programs that deliver data and services to clients over a simple protocol called the Hypertext transfer protocol. These applications might deliver HTML data over HTTP to a browser but can also exchange data and services with any program—running locally or remotely—that also uses non-proprietary XML standards for sharing data.

HTTP is a stateless protocol responsible for sending data over a lower level network protocol called TCP/IP (a.k.a. “The Internet Protocol”). As a client communicates with an ASP.NET application, ASP.NET uses cookies stored on the client's machine and/or query strings (variable data appended onto hyperlinks) to manage the client's session state in between each request and response. ...