Building Basic Components

Let’s start by building a super simple component. The HelloWorld component is contained in Listing 17.1.

Listing 17.1. HelloWorld.cs

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Visual Web Developer Note

When using Visual Web Developer, you create a component by selecting Website, Add New Item, and then selecting the Class item (see Figure 17.1). The first time you add a component to a project, Visual Web Developer prompts you to create a new folder named App_Code. You want your new component to be added to this folder.

Figure 17.1. Creating a new component with Visual Web Developer.

The HelloWorld component consists of a single method named SayMessage() ...

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