Chapter 4Constructing ASP.NET Web Pages

If you’ve ever built a model from Lego bricks, you’re well prepared to start building real ASP.NET web pages. ASP.NET offers features that allow web developers to build parts of web pages independently, then put them together later to form complete pages.

The content we’re creating through our work with ASP.NET is almost never static. At design time, we tend to think in terms of templates that contain placeholders for the content that will be generated dynamically at runtime. And to fill those placeholders, we can either use one of the many controls ASP.NET provides, or build our own.

In this chapter, we’ll discuss many of the objects and techniques that give life and color to ASP.NET web pages, including: ...

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