ASP.NET Kick Start

Chapter 20. Building Business Components

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Why Use Components?

• Components Versus Classes

• Creating a Simple Component

• Creating a Database Component

• Creating Multi-Tiered Applications

• Creating a Library of Components

• Accessing the Current HttpContext in a Component

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to create custom components with C# and Visual Basic .NET. Components enable you to reuse the same application logic—the same code—across multiple pages. You can place any type of application logic in a component that you want. For example, you can place all of your database access logic in a component, you can expose an XML Web service from a component, or you can implement custom business logic in a component.

In this chapter, you will learn

• The ...