Chapter 5. Programming Your ASP.NET Web Pages

In the previous chapters, you created a number of Web Forms that contained mostly ASP.NET Server Controls and plain HTML. Only a few of the examples contained actual programming code, written in either C# or Visual Basic. NET (VB.NET), and most of that code was pretty straightforward. However, coding is an important part of any web site. Although the many smart server controls you have at your disposal minimize the amount of code you need to write compared to the older 1.x family of the .NET Framework or other web technologies like classic ASP or PHP, being able to read, understand, and write code is a critical asset in your web development toolkit.

This chapter teaches you the basics and beyond of programming for web applications. In particular, this chapter looks at: