Murach’s ASP.NET 3.5 with VB 2008
An introduction to ASP.NET web programming

This chapter gives you the background you need to start writing ASP.NET 3.5 web applications of your own. So you’ll find out how web applications work, what software you need to develop them, and how the HTML code for a web form is coordinated with the Visual Basic code that makes the web form work the way you want it to.
Chapter 1 An introduction to ASP.NET web programming
An introduction to web applications 4
Two pages of a Shopping Cart application 4
The hardware and software components for web applications 6
How static web pages work 8
How dynamic web pages work 10
How state is handled in ASP.NET applications 12
An introduction to ASP.NET application development 14
The software you need 14
The components of the .NET Framework 16
Three environments for developing ASP.NET applications 18
A quick preview of how an ASP.NET application works 20
The files used by the Shopping Cart application 20
The aspx code for the Order form 22
The Visual Basic code for the Order form 24
How an ASP.NET application is compiled and run 26


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