Introducing the ASP.NET Model

Until now different kinds of client applications, such as Console, Windows Forms, and WPF were discussed. For this last technology, the discussion was deeper because of the innovations brought into the desktop applications development. Developing Web applications for ASP.NET with Visual Basic 2010 is different. If you are an existing Web developer, this chapter will probably just be an overview of some new features introduced by .NET 4.0. However, if you are new to ASP.NET, although you can find lots of similarities with the client world in writing managed code and in creating applications, the code in the Web environment runs differently. So you need to understand where the code is running and why scaling applications ...

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