Chapter 26. Working Smart with ASP.NET

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ASP.NET Installation Notes	992
ASP.NET Hand-Coding Objects in the Insertion Bar	994
ASP.NET Web Server Control Objects in the Insertion Bar	997
ASP.NET Resources	1038
Summary	1039

Dreamweaver MX 2004 is designed to be a complete solution for developing ASP.NET applications. ASP.NET is a little different from the other server models in Dreamweaver because it is not really an application server language. It is a more comprehensive way to build web applications in a couple of different languages. ASP.NET is a framework for developers that allows you to develop web applications in a more object-oriented way, accessing classes and controls that allow you to build larger, more robust applications without having to code everything from scratch each time.

ASP.NET has a number of great features. A chapter in a Dreamweaver book, even a great book like this one, has to pick and choose what to detail. This chapter includes the following:

• Installation notes. Although you can go many places for information on installing the ASP.NET Framework, I've run into several "gotchas" that you might benefit from.

• A reference for all the ASP.NET objects Dreamweaver provides.

• An exercise that shows you how to use a DataGrid.

The examples here are for VBScript. Dreamweaver MX 2004 also includes support for C# (C-sharp), so the code you generate might be slightly different, but the concepts are the same and, in most cases, the details are as well.

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