Web Forms

Web Forms are one of the new, exciting features in Microsoft's .NET initiative. Web Forms are instances of the System.Web.UI.Page class. The benefit is that Web Forms support WYSIWYG user interface design and your favorite .NET programming language as the code behind the form. The result is that programming in ASP.NET is a lot like programming Windows Forms.

ASP.NET takes the design view in the .aspx, combined with the code behind the form in the .aspx.vb module, and automatically renders HTML. The automatically rendered HTML is browser-agnostic for styles and layout, or you can target a specific browser and version.

Web Forms Designer

The Web Forms Designer has two views: the design view and the raw HTML format view. You can toggle ...

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