Chapter 12. The Page Class

In contrast to classic ASP, ASP.NET features a far richer object model that allows virtually every part of an ASP.NET application to be generated and modified dynamically. Central to this ability to generate -- and particularly, to modify -- content programmatically is the Page class, which is new to ASP.NET.

The Page class (or a class derived from the Page class) represents a request to an .aspx page that is processed by the ASP.NET extension to Internet Information Server or to another web server supporting the .NET Framework. The web page may contain simple HTML and text, .NET code, or a combination of both; in other words, the Page class represents a single Web Forms page. The requests for that page are served by the compiled object that sends HTML or other content back to the client.