Graphics Programming with GDI+

12.1. Creating Your First ASP.NET Web Application

Discussing ASP.NET in depth is beyond the scope of this book. In this chapter we will take an “as needed” approach, discussing only the techniques we will use in our applications. If you are looking for an introductory ASP.NET book, try Essential ASP.NET by Fritz Onion (published by Addison-Wesley).

To understand ASP.NET and Visual Studio .NET integration, we will write a simple non-GDI+ Web application. In this application we will add some controls to a Web page: a generic button, a text box, and an Image button. After adding these controls, we will write code in the button click event handler that will read the contents of the text box as a file name and display the file in the Image button. ...