Hour 1. Getting Started with ASP.NET

ASP.NET is an exciting Web programming technology pioneered by Microsoft that allows developers to create dynamic Web pages, whose content is dynamically generated whenever the Web pages are requested. For example, once you log on, the front page of Amazon.com will show books it recommends for you, based on your previous purchases. This is a dynamic Web page because it is a single Web page whose content is customized based on what customer is visiting the page.

In this book we'll examine how to create dynamic ASP.NET Web sites quickly and easily. Before we can start creating our first ASP.NET Web page, though, there are three components we must set up and install. The first of these is the .NET Framework, ...

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