Implementing the User Interface

In the last hour, “Devising a Plan for the Guestbook Application,” we spent some time discussing the functional requirements for the guestbook Web application as well as sketching out a user interface (UI). Armed with the user interface drawing we examined in Figure 21.1, we are ready to create an ASP.NET Web page that implements this UI by adding the necessary Web controls to the page and setting their properties.

Start by creating a new ASP.NET Web page named AddEntry.aspx. Also, be sure to turn on glyphs, as we will need to make sure that the various TextBox Web controls and the Button Web control that we'll be adding to this page are placed within the Web form.

Take a minute to refer back to Figure 21.1 to ...

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