Chapter 12: Writing an Application

Chapter 12 - Writing an Application
byJohn Kauffman, Fabio Claudio Ferracchiatiet al.?
Wrox Press ?2002

Overview

In the first 11 chapters of this book, we've covered many aspects of the interaction between ASP.NET and ADO.NET, and practiced using many of the techniques involved in getting the two to work together. To this point, we've been demonstrating those ideas through relatively small, self-contained examples. In this chapter, we'll set out to write a much larger database-oriented application using ASP.NET techniques.

This application will make use of many of the different ideas that we've already discussed in this book. For example, we'll be using:

• Client-side scripting with JavaScript

• Code-behind concepts (with VB.NET)

• The ASP.NET web server controls

• Database access components

• ASP.NET request and response objects

• Stored procedures within the database

We'll build our application from the ground up, and as we do so we'll be able to see how these different aspects interact with each other in a 'real-life' environment. While this chapter won't explain every single line of code in detail, it will provide you with sufficient information to allow you to implement the application as it is, and to modify it to suit your needs. You might also use it as a starting point or a guide to writing your own applications.