Chapter 25. Building Web Applications

Developing web applications in Visual Studio 2008 has many similarities to developing traditional desktop applications. You drag and drop controls onto a form and build your business logic by using your language of choice — in our case, Visual Basic 2008.

However, as you will see, there are also many differences. There are underlying technologies that you, the developer, should have a solid understanding of, additional control sets to work with, and some fundamental differences in the way that the standard controls behave.