Summary

Summary

• There are four types of Internet applications: Web applications, Web services, Internet-enabled applications, and peer-to-peer applications.

• Web applications run on a server, processing user requests for pages and composing those pages using executable code and static resources on the server.

• Web applications can provide dynamic content based on dynamic server resources, such as a database, and based on user inputs, such as creating a mortgage payoff table from user loan information.

• ASP.NET is a platform for creating Web applications that run on Windows servers using IIS and the .NET Framework.

• Web applications are made up of content, an executable, and configuration files.

• The content of a Web application is presented through Web forms. Web forms use HTML components like conventional HTML pages; like Windows forms, however, they can also respond to user events such as mouse clicks.

• The Web application s executable is stored in a .dll file called an assembly. Assemblies are compiled to an intermediate state, and the final compilation is done by the CLR just before running the application.

• The .NET Framework is made up of the CLR and the .NET class library. The .NET class library makes the CLR run-time tasks available to programmers.

• The .NET classes are grouped by programming task into namespaces. These groupings help you locate the class, method, or property you need to accomplish a task.

• Use the Visual Studio .NET Start Page to view current product information, to open new or existing projects, to set user environment preferences, and to sign up for Web hosting services.

• Edit Web forms and HTML pages visually by using the Document window s Design mode; edit them as text by using the Document window s HTML mode.

• Set the Help language filter to view code samples in a single programming language or in multiple languages.

• Modify the Visual Studio .NET environment features using the Options dialog box.