21.1. Introduction

In previous chapters, we used Windows Forms and controls to develop Windows applications. In this chapter, we introduce Web application development with Microsoft’s Active Server Pages .NET (ASP.NET) 2.0 technology. Web-based applications create Web content for Web browser clients. This Web content includes Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML), client-side scripting, images and binary data. Readers not familiar with XHTML should first read Appendix F, Introduction to XHTML: Part 1, and Appendix G, Introduction to XHTML: Part 2, before studying this chapter.

We present several examples that demonstrate Web application development using Web Forms, Web controls (also called ASP.NET server controls) and Visual Basic programming. ...

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