Chapter 34. ASP.NET

ASP.NET is the .NET platform for building web applications. ASP.NET is a huge and feature-rich technology—it is so big that the book Pro ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010, the Apress book about ASP.NET that I wrote with Matthew MacDonald, is more than 1,500 pages. In this chapter, we are going to look at two of the user interface technologies that ASP.NET supports: Web Forms and Dynamic Data.

ASP.NET relies on Internet Information Services (IIS), which is an application server that has been enhanced to deliver ASP.NET applications to clients. IIS 7 is available as part of Windows and works particularly well on Windows Server. The latest version is IIS 7.5, which is supported on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. You can get details of ...

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