| A SP.NET is a web development framework that provides developers with an advanced, object-oriented interface to the creation and manipulation of HTML that will be rendered to the client. More than that, ASP.NET provides a rich event-driven model that resembles the event-driven model that Windows Forms developers are familiar with. This chapter provides you with an introduction to ASP.NET and a list of the controls and tools that will be available to you for creating compelling web applications using ASP.NET. In addition, this chapter contains a guide to creating and debugging your web applications, handling server-side events in your code, and even a look at how to use one of the powerful new ASP.NET 2.0 features: client callbacks. |