A Quick Look at ASP.NET

• A Web Form contains two components: code and content. The content component of a Web Form can contain Web Form Server controls. Web Form Server controls contain the following types of controls: HTML Server control, ASP.NET Server control, Validation controls, and User controls.

• The content component basically concerns itself with display issues. The code components are the glue that binds things up.

What s New in ASP.NET

• The new WebForm controls provide server-side processing with an event-driven programming model.

• The Web.config is an XML-based file that provides application specific directions.

Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET

• Realize that ASP.NET was written from the ground up to fix many of the problems found in the interpreted scripting language of ASP and that many items in ASP won t easily port to ASP.NET.

• ASP.NET provides an Inline coding facility for ASP developers who are accustomed to that type of development, but it also provides a code behind class that provides a facility for easily separating content code from design code.

State Management in ASP.NET

• Several types of State management are provided for in ASP.NET; they include Application, Session, Cookies, and Out-of-Process. Each has a distinct use and benefit over the other.

Tracing in ASP.NET

• Tracing has been built into ASP.NET to provide an easy mechanism to pinpoint application functionality.

• Tracing in ASP.NET reduces or eliminates the need to place Response.Write statement throughout development code.