Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX

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CHAPTER 2 ■ BASICS OF WEB DEVELOPMENT WITH ASP.NET
Figure 2-23. The Web Site Administration Tool
Summary
In this chapter, you took a brief look at ASP.NET and how you can use the VWDE tool to
build a simple ASP.NET application. You were given a tour of the development environment
and how it is used to build and manage web sites. After this tour, you should have
an understanding of how development is done using a server-side paradigm—which was
reinforced with a brief look at the architecture of ASP.NET.
Additionally, you looked at using configuration and web site administration to define
how ASP.NET should behave when serving your site. Ultimately, you were able to build a
site with some pretty sophisticated functionality using only four lines of code, demonstrating
just how much the framework can do behind the scenes for you! One of the
concepts that you were introduced to was the web form. Chapter 3 will go into this in
more detail, looking at how pages are processed by ASP.NET and how the technology can
be used to build scalable, performant web applications.