Introducing ASP.NET Applications

Abstract

This chapter provides a tour through ASP.NET application architecture and reviews the more interesting features of ASP.NET applications. The larger purpose of this chapter is to give all readers a common understanding of the important features and issues in ASP.NET and to lay the groundwork for the rest of the book. Advanced readers, fear not! This chapter does not regurgitate basic ASP.NET 101 by repeating what you may have read in half a dozen other books. Instead, this chapter digs deeper into selected topics ranging from configuring ASP.NET to using view state. It also tackles underserved topics, such as how to customize configuration settings and how to write your own Http Handler classes for low-level processing of HTTP requests. Finally, the topics covered are pertinent to discussions throughout the book.