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your code. Of course, this doesn’t mean that I hate Visual Studio or that I’m not recommending Visual Studio for developing ASP.NET applications. Visual Studio is a great tool to use to write ASP.NET applications but, judged from an ASP.NET perspective, it is only a tool. This book, instead, is all about the ASP.NET core technology.

I do recommend this book to developers who have knowledge of the basic steps required to build simple ASP.NET pages and easily manage the fundamentals of Web development. This book is not a collection of recipes for cooking good (or just functional) ASP.NET code. This book begins where recipes end. It explains to you the how-it-works, what-you-can-do, and why-you-should-or-should-not aspects of ASP.NET. Beginners need not apply, even though this book is a useful and persistent reference to keep on the desk.

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Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, or Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4.

Any version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

Internet Information Services (IIS) is not strictly required, but it is helpful for testing sample applications in a realistic runtime environment.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express (included with Visual Studio 2008) or Microsoft SQL Server 2005, as well as any newer versions.

The Northwind database of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is used in most examples in this book to demonstrate data-access techniques throughout the book.

766-MHz Pentium or compatible processor (1.5-GHz Pentium recommended).

256 MB RAM (512 MB or more recommended).

Video (800 x 600 or higher resolution) monitor with at least 256 colors (1024 x 768 High Color 16-bit recommended).

CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.

Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device.

Code Samples

All of the code samples discussed in this book can be downloaded from the book’s Companion Content page accessible via following address:

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Part I. The ASP.NET Runtime Environment

In this part:

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 1. ASP.NET Web Forms Today

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time. The wait is simply too long.

—Leonard Bernstein

In its early years, the Web pushed an unusual programming model and a set of programming tools and languages that were unknown or unfamiliar to the majority of programmers. Anybody who tried to build even a trivial Web site in the 1990s had to come to grips with the HTML syntax and at least the simplest JavaScript commands and objects. That required developing a brand new skill set, which forced people