Fundamentals of .NET

How ASP.NET works

lWeb page activates back end processing, which generates HTML sent to the browser

lTwo organizations for ASP.NET applications

ØSingle web page of file type aspx containing HTML and embedded code is run at the server to augment the HTML

ØA web page of file type .aspx which contains HTML and HTML-like objects with names connects with code in a separate “code behind” file, this code being activated to replace these objects with actual HTML before the page is sent to the browser

lTwo approaches

ØBack-end code creates and send entire page:

§Code accesses data and builds the entire HTML page according to the code’s own internal algorithms

§The page is sent as successive (or a single) string to the browser by calling System.Web.HttpResponse