ASP.NET Developer's JumpStart

Event-Handling Basics

The process of creating a Web Forms user interface involves placing controls onto a page and then writing code to react to events that occur as users interact with those controls. ASP.NET makes it simple for you to work with pages, controls, and events as if the entire process were taking place on a client computer.

Interacting with the Server

In actuality, almost all event handling takes place on the Web server, and it's important that you understand what happens when you add event code that runs in reaction to user events. More important, code that you write in reaction to control events always runs on the server, except in one case: When you write script code that handles events on the client, in JavaScript or VBScript, ...