Creating Web Sites Before ASP.NET
Before ASP.NET, developers using Microsoft products had two paths they could take: Developers could either create simple HTML pages or they could use Active Server Pages (ASP). Obviously, there were other choices as well, including several techniques superceded by ASP. The next two sections outline the two existing techniques for creating Web applications.
Using HTML to Create Sites
You can create a Web site using nothing but HTML if you want. However, when you do this, you do not have the ability to provide any runtime customization. For example, suppose you have a product catalog. If you wish to add or delete items from the catalog, you have to go into the HTML page that has the products and manually add and ...
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