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Using Web Forms to Build Interactive Applications |
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| An Introduction to ASP.NET | |
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This chapter of our text book, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Step by Step, should really be titled, "Introduction to ASP.NET". That is, in fact, what it is! |
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There is a fundamental difference between the kind of programs that we have been writing, and the ones that we will learn about in this chapter that should be absolutely clear before anything else. ASP.NET and VB.NET Web Forms require a web server. To drive this point home, here's a quote from one of the very popular "Dummies" books: Pure HTML merely describes how text and graphics should look — size, location, color, and so on. You can do no significant computing with HTML. You cannot even add 2 + 2. By itself, HTML is pretty useless. To expand the capabilities of HTML, the idea of an active server was developed. It permits you to compute on your server; then the results of that computation are composed into a page of HTML. The HTML page is then sent off to the visitor's computer for viewing in his or her browser. This capability brings your Web pages alive. And that's the way things were with ASP. If you would like an introduction to ASP - the version that works with VB 6 - I invite you to try out my ASP tutorial: Learn VB and ASP. |
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