Chapter 2: Creating Web Forms Applications

Chapter 2

Creating Web Forms Applications

About This Chapter

In this chapter, you ll learn how to create an ASP.NET Web application using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and ASP.NET. You ll learn how to start a new project, create a basic user interface, write code to respond to events, and preserve data within your application. Because ASP.NET is integrated with Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), you ll also learn about IIS and how to use it to organize your Web application.

Before You Begin

To complete the lessons in this chapter, you must:

• Have installed Visual Studio .NET, IIS, and the Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions on your computer.

• Be familiar with the basics of using Visual Studio .NET, including how to add controls to a Microsoft Windows form, how to add code to controls, and how to run an application within Visual Studio .NET. See the QuickStart tutorials included with Visual Studio .NET for instructions on these tasks.