Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Introducing the ASP.NET Model

So far, we’ve discussed several kinds of client applications, such as Console, Windows Forms, and WPF. For this last technology, the discussion was deeper because WPF is the premier technology for building desktop clients. Developing web applications for ASP.NET with Visual Basic 2015 is different. If you are a web developer, this chapter will probably just be an overview of some new features introduced by .NET 4.6. However, if you are new to ASP.NET, although you can find lots of similarities with the client world in writing managed code and creating applications, the code in the web environment runs differently. So you need to understand where the code is running and why scaling applications is fundamental; therefore, ...