What Is ASP.NET?

After all the prerequisites are successfully installed, you may start authoring your ASP.NET pages and build Web applications. We begin our exploration of this Web technology with a simple example. Along the way we will establish a testbed for ASP.NET programming, and we will review some of the fundamentals of Web processing. Our little example reveals some of the challenges in developing Web applications, and we can then appreciate the features and benefits of ASP.NET that we will elaborate on in the rest of the chapter.

Web Application Fundamentals

A Web application consists of document and code pages in various formats. The simplest kind of document is a static HTML page, which contains information that will be formatted and ...

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