In Brief
This chapter presented quite a few new concepts across a range of technologies. Among the important points of the chapter were:
ASP.NET is the new server-side Web development platform in .NET.
Web Forms are designed and coded in a very similar manner to Windows Forms.
XML is a flexible file format for storing structured data, and the System.XML namespace contains many classes for creating and using this format.
Web Services allow application services to be exposed across a network using a standards-based protocol and format.
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