In this chapter, you have seen a range of different topicsnone of which are directly concerned with ASP.NET. However, they all represent tasks that you may need to accomplish in your Web sites and other ASP.NET applications. Because ASP.NET is just a part of the large and full-featured class library within the .NET Framework, the boundaries between what ASP.NET can do and how you can take advantage of the other classes outside the System.Web hierarchy are no obstacle to building complex applications that require other features. The chapter covered a lot of topics, and in so doing is an introduction to each one of them rather than a full reference. However, it aimed to cover the most common requirement scenarios and to show how easy it is to perform tasks such as sending e-mail from a Web site, accessing Internet resources, and interacting with the file system. The full list of topics and namespaces you saw is:
However, there is one other topic concerning access to Internet resources missing from the list. This concerns classes within the System.Web hierarchy, namely, those associated with the use of Web Services. That is the topic of the next and final chapter. |