ASP Introduction for Beginners

What is ASP? There are number of technologies available today for developing composite web sites and web applications. ASP.NET 2.0 enables us o develop web sites & applications very easily.

Even if you have developed web applications before, or if you are new in the field of web development, there’s a lot to learn about this ASP technology. It is built on top of version 2.0 of the .NET Framework, ASP.NET 2.0 extends on the functionality first seen in

ASP.NET 1.0 and 1.1. At its core, you have a control-based, event- driven architecture, which means that you can add small blocks of code to a page, and can also see dynamic results, and you can react to user input to provide a smooth and spontaneous user experience. So the change since the previous edition of ASP.NET is in the amount of code you have to write.

The mundane and repetitive tasks that you would have previously had to complete have been simplified. For example, providing user login functionality

to a site is now a very swift process—adding a few controls to a page and setting up some user accounts is pretty much all you need to do to get basic user login functionality implemented on a site, and personalizing the user experience is just a step away from there! Similarly ASP shopping cart is another famous application widely used. Now add the new development environment designed for building ASP.NET 2.0 applications, Visual Web Developer (available on its own, or as part of Visual Studio 2005), and you will find building dynamic, feature-rich applications to be a fast, smooth process. Visual Web Developer is a new innovation from Microsoft, and was developed mostly in response to developer demand. Previous editions of Visual Studio .NET were not great when it came to web programming, and you’d often find your code had been “fixed” for you behind the scenes because your HTML came out looking very different thanthe way it went in originally! Visual Web Developer has a fantastic HTML editing environment, and a really smooth and intuitive interface for developing complex ASP.NET applications. Best of all, it’s a low-cost product, which makes it accessible to a wide audience who may not be able to afford the complete Visual Studio package.

ASPdatabase.net is an online database management program that enables web-based editing of database tables in Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server. ASPdatabase.net also enables you to view, edit, delete and create new records in a database table. Additionaly, you can manage the tables themselves by creating new tables, dropping tables, adding columns to tables and deleting columns from tables.