The Server Response File

You should now be at a point where you understand how all the different pieces of ATL Server work together to render content back to the client, so now its time to get into the code and implement the necessary logic for your number-guessing game. The best place to start is with the server response file (SRF).

The SRF is a combination of regular HTML and ATL Server replacement tags. Each tag is contained within beginning and ending double curly braces. Using Solution Explorer, open the NumberGuess.srf file contained within the NumberGuess solution.

The Visual Studio .NET IDE is registered to treat server response files as regular HTML files. SRFs, however, are dynamic in nature, so what you see when you are designing the ...

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