SAMS Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 24 Hours

Hour 21. Devising a Plan for the Guestbook Application

Over the past 20 hours, you have learned a number of topics, including ASP.NET basics, Visual Basic .NET, SQL syntax, and working with the various ASP.NET Web controls. In the remainder of this book, we'll take the knowledge you've amassed and use it to build a real-world Web application—an online guestbook.

This hour focuses on planning for the guestbook application and creating the needed database tables. As we discussed back in Hour 3, “Creating Our First ASP.NET Web Page,” when creating an ASP.NET Web application, it is important to spend adequate time planning the application before you jump straight into creating the individual ASP.NET Web pages. The planning phase involves a number ...