Hour 1. Getting Started with ASP.NET 4

In this hour, we will cover

• What ASP.NET is

• The system requirements for using ASP.NET

• The software that must be installed prior to using ASP.NET

• Installing the .NET Framework, Visual Web Developer, and SQL Server 2008

• Taking a quick tour of Visual Web Developer

• Creating a simple ASP.NET page and viewing it through a web browser

ASP.NET is an exciting web programming technology pioneered by Microsoft that allows developers to create dynamic web pages. Dynamic web pages are pages whose content is dynamically regenerated each time the web page is requested. For example, after you sign in, the front page of Amazon.com shows recommended products based on your previous purchases. This is a dynamic ...

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