Hour 4. Designing, Creating, and Testing ASP.NET Web Pages

In this hour, we will cover

• Creating the design requirements for the financial calculator

• Creating the user interface

• Adding the needed Web controls to the ASP.NET web page

• Writing the code for the ASP.NET web page's source code portion

• Testing the ASP.NET web page

In the past three hours we've spent quite a bit of time talking in very high-level terms about ASP.NET web pages, the ASP.NET programming model, and Visual Web Developer. We've looked at how to configure our computer to serve ASP.NET web pages, and we've looked at the role of the web server. We've examined the HTML and source code portions of an ASP.NET web page. We've created some very simple ASP.NET web pages and have seen how to use Visual Web Developer to create these pages.

In this hour we turn from these high-level discussions to actually designing, building, and testing a nontrivial, useful ASP.NET web page that illustrates the concepts discussed in the past three hours. Specifically, we'll be creating an ASP.NET web page that serves as a financial calculator.