Creating the Northwind Solution

To demonstrate working with Web Forms and server controls, in this section you'll add a main page to the Northwind Trading Company application that includes links to pages you'll add in later chapters. In addition, you'll create a login page that you'll use in several later chapters, adding login capabilities to the application.

To get started, load the Northwind.sln solution you have been working on up to this point. Follow these steps to add Main.aspx and controls to the page:

1.
Select Project, Add Web Form from the menu bar.
2.
Set Name to Main.aspx and click Open.
3.
Add the following controls:
Control Property Value
Label ID Label1
 Text Northwind Traders
 Font.Bold True
 Font.Size Large
Hyperlink ID ...

Get ASP.NET Developer's JumpStart now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.