Murach's ASP.NET 3.5 with VB 2008
How to develop a multi-page web application

This chapter shows you how to develop a simple multi-page web application. This application involves skills like transferring control to another web page, using a data source to handle database data, and managing session state to keep track of each user session.
Chapter 3 How to develop a multi-page web application
The Shopping Cart application 74
The Order page 74
The Cart page 76
The files and folders used by the Shopping Cart application 78
How to add a class to a web site 80
Six skills for working with multiple web forms 82
How to add a web form to a web site 82
How to rename a web form 84
How to change the starting web form 84
How to redirect or transfer to another page 86
How to use cross-page posting 88
How to code absolute and relative URLs 90
How to create and use data sources 92
How to create an Access data source 92
How to configure an Access data source 94
How to bind a drop-down list to a data source 96
How to use Visual Basic code to get data from a data source 98
How to use session state 100
How session state works 100
How to work with data in session state 102
The code for the Shopping Cart application 104
The code for the Product and CartItem classes 104
The aspx code for the Order page 104
The Visual Basic code for the Order page 108
The aspx code for the Cart page 112
The Visual Basic code for the Cart page 112


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