Introduction

As the World Wide Web continues its meteoric growth, Web sites have matured from simple collections of static HTML pages to data-driven dynamic Web applications. For example, Web sites like eBay and Amazon.com are much more than simple HTML pages—they're actual applications that are accessed through the Internet. While there are many competing technologies for building data-driven Web sites, this book shows how to use Microsoft's popular ASP.NET technology for creating Web applications.

ASP.NET Web applications are composed of individual ASP.NET Web pages. As we will see in numerous examples throughout this book, these ASP.NET Web pages can display HTML, collect user input, and interact with databases. ASP.NET Web pages contain a mix ...

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