Introduction to Web Forms

Web Forms are a new ASP.NET programming model that you can use to create programmable web pages. Web Forms are a server-side programming technology. They use code on the server to implement application logic and send HTML tags as the output. If the user of your Web Form’s application uses a specific browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, you can send rich format HTML with features for style, layout, and so forth. On the other hand, if you can’t control the type of browser the user will be using, you can output HTML 3.2 tags that can be rendered by all browsers.

Web Forms are built on Common Language Runtime (CLR) and provide all the benefits of those technologies, including a managed execution environment, ...

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