ASP.NET 2 For Dummies
Chapter One
ASP.NET 2.0-Just Do It!
In This Chapter
* Identifying and installing the software you need
* Creating an environment for developing and testing ASP.NET 2.0 pages
* Planning how to create and execute a page
* Exploring some common Visual Basic 2005 commands
* Working with new pages and old ones
Most books (especially about .NET, it seems) give you lots of concepts
and theories and detailed, boring analysis before they ever let you
jump in and play with the stuff. Don't expect that here, though; I turn the traditional
philosophy of chapter-order sequence on its head. In this book, I
start by getting your server and development environment configured and
set up so that you can create your first ASP.NET page in this chapter. There's
no teacher like experience!
If questions pop up in your mind as you're going through this chapter, hang
on! I probably address them in Chapter 2, where I take a step back and put
what you've seen into context. There, I show you how ASP.NET came about
and how it differs from other technologies you might have heard about.
Do I Need a Development Environment?
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