ASP .NET Web Developer's Guide

Frequently Asked Questions

The following Frequently Asked Questions, answered by the authors of this book, are designed to both measure your understanding of the concepts presented in this chapter and to assist you with real-life implementation of these concepts. To have your questions about this chapter answered by the author, browse to www.syngress.com/solutions and click on the Ask the Author form.

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How much will ASP syntax change during the transition from Beta 2 to the final version?

A. Microsoft has predicted that there will be no syntactical changes. This should be good news to developers who were faced with some confusion when certain classes were dropped, added, and modified during the last transition from Beta 1 to Beta 2.

Q.

What happens to the existing ASP applications when the .Net Beta 2 SDK is installed and .aspx files enter the picture?

A. Nothing! The good news is that files extensions used by ASP (.asp, .asa , etc.) are completely separate from the ones used by ASP.NET (.aspx, .asax, .ascx, etc.) and do not override each other even in the same directory. The bad news is that settings made in the global.asa file are not accessible to those made in the global.asax file, and therefore you have to redo some setting to get some consistency.

Q.

Are paths such as HREFs in user controls relative to the user control or to the host page that they are in?

A. The...

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