.NET Mobile Web Developer's Guide
Learn to develop mobile Web applications for Microsoft's .NET platform.
TABLE OF CONTENTS .NET Mobile Web Developer's Guide
What s New in ASP.NET
ASP.NET has revolutionized the way Web pages are built. No longer do you have to work with an interpreted language in which you have to write fairly structured code, but in an environment in which you can develop in response to users actions. ASP.NET has been rewritten from the ground up to make use of server-side controls, caching, better tracing mechanisms, and much, much more, all on top of an extensible and customizable framework.
The ASP.NET Environment
After examining Chapter 2, you should have a good idea of how the new .NET Framework and its supporting architecture works. ASP.NET is not just a programming environment but also an extension of the .NET Framework. ASP.NET is a collection of .NET classes specifically created to assist in the processing of HTTP requests and HTTP responses. As it sits on top of the Common Runtime Language (CLR), ASP.NET has access to the customization and extensibility features made possible in the .NET Framework.
While creating the ASP.NET programming model, Microsoft s goal was to revolutionize the way Web applications were written, and at the same time be able to utilize some of the concepts that current ASP developers are accustomed to. For instance, the ASP.NET environment still allows code and HTML to be intermixed on a page, but also has a new feature called code-behind, which provides a class module to separate the two.
ASP.NET has also been extended to work in conjunction with the Visual Studio.NET development environment. Note that...
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