Summary

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This chapter described how the ASP programming model has been rolled forward into ASP.NET and made more powerful. Web Forms simplify much of the user interface code required for a Web application, and they make it as easy to develop a Web-based user interface as one based on the Windows user interface. You learned how a Web Form consists of an HTML file and associated code-behind and how each Web Form inherits from the Page class, which provides the intrinsic objects required to process the user request. You also learned that you can use the various types of validator Web controls so that client-generated events are handled on the server while validation remains on the client.

You learned that ASP.NET provides a wide range of server-side controls but that you can also create your own custom user controls. The chapter explained how data in a DataSet can be bound to data-oriented controls such as DataGrid controls. You saw how Web applications are configured and deployed and how security is configured. You learned about different scopes and types of state management, from request scope to session scope and application scope. Finally, you learned how ASP.NET's output caching can help to speed up requests for Web pages.

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