Visual Basic® .NET Unleashed

Chapter 19. ASP.NET Web Programming

In This Chapter

• Web Forms

• Using Request and Response

• ASP.NET and ADO.NET

• Output Caching

• Performance Considerations

• Rendering Controls

• Dynamically Adding Controls to a Page

• Creating Custom Web Controls

• Summary

From the perspective of someone who loves object-oriented code, I am not a big fan of ASP. Relative to pure Visual Basic, ASP produces spaghetti code because it is a heterogeneous mixture of HTML and script. Fortunately, this is one of the challenges undertaken by the ASP.NET developers: clean up ASP.

ASP.NET aims squarely at providing a rich user interface for multiple browsers, separation of client and server, stateless execution, simplifying data access, and enhancing scalability. ASP.NET does all of these ...