Chapter 14. Browser/Server Communications

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ASP.NET evolved out of Microsoft's original Active Server Pages, but that is where the similarities end. Sure, some of the objects are still named the same, but the capabilities and programming paradigms that ASP.NET offers have really grown up. VB developers will be pleased to know that it is often difficult to distinguish in which environment you are programming—VB or ASP!

This chapter starts by detailing System.Web, the namespace related to Web development and ASP.NET. We then present a number of key classes in the ...

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