Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX

CHAPTER 3 ■ WEB FORMS WITH ASP.NET 67
So, for example, to write new content to the output buffer, you’d simply call its Write
method, like this:
Response.Write("New Content");
Or, to redirect the user to a new page, you can use this:
Response.Redirect(http://someserver/somepage.htm);
You can find more details here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.
web.httpresponse(VS.80).aspx.
Summary
In this chapter, you looked into ASP.NET and the page life cycle. You learned how
ASP.NET processes pages and how page forms and server-side controls can be mixed to
improve your developer productivity and your users’ experience when accessing your
application. You saw the differences between using ASP.NET HTML controls and ASP.NET
server controls. You learned how maintaining page state can cause problems in scalability
for applications, and how the ASP.NET view state functionality can give you a
best-of-both-worlds approach—state maintenance in your application without
consuming server resources.
You looked into how events can get stored and fired, and how they can be fired
immediately using automatic postbacks. Finally, you reviewed the Page and Controls collections,
looking into how you can use code to manage and manipulate controls on a
page, or even dynamically add controls or dynamically change the status of your page at
runtime. Our example was changing the page header in code.
In the next chapter, you’ll look at more application-specific code using data binding
so that you can build real-world applications that provide user access to secured data
stores.